Join Code Pink, Beyond The Bomb, Women Cross The DMZ And World Beyond War For “How To Avoid A War In Asia”
Join Code Pink, Beyond the Bomb, Women Cross the DMZ and World Beyond War for “How to Avoid a War in Asia”
Join Code Pink, Beyond the Bomb, Women Cross the DMZ and World Beyond War for “How to Avoid a War in Asia”
By Daniel Immerwahr, November 30, 2020 From The Nation Shortly after the Covid-19 pandemic struck the United States, a reporter asked Donald Trump if he
A Vancouver MP’s last-minute withdrawal from a recent webinar on Canada’s nuclear arms policy highlights Liberal hypocrisy. The government says it wants to rid the world of nuclear weapons but refuses to take a minimal step to protect humanity from the serious threat.
There is no shortage of work to be done.
Perhaps more than any other international issue, the Canadian government’s response to the move to abolish nuclear weapons highlights the gap between what the Liberals say and do on the world stage.
Horrified by the industrial slaughter of millions of soldiers and civilians, the people of the U.S. and the world initiated campaigns to outlaw war once and for all … Tragically, however, the last century has been marked by war after war, and growing militarism.
Stephen Wertheim’s Tomorrow, The World examines a shift in elite U.S. foreign-policy thinking that took place in mid-1940. Why in that moment, a year and a half before the Japanese attacks on the Philippines, Hawaii, and other outposts, did it become popular in foreign-policy circles to advocate for U.S. military domination of the globe?
The lack of any peace candidate or peace party, combined with Trump’s tendency to only ever do the right things for insanely wrong reasons, and the virtual exclusion of all talk of peace from political discourse, means that troop withdrawals and war-alliance-dismantlings and even the ending of wars can all be treated as nefarious evil deeds, while anything that facilitates mass murder is good humanitarianism.
David Vine is Professor of Anthropology at American University whose books include Base Nation: How U.S. Military Bases Abroad Harm America and the World. David Vine’s latest book is called The United States of War: A Global History of America’s Endless Conflicts, From Columbus to the Islamic State.