Taking War Personally
“For Washington, it seems that whatever the problem is, the answer is bombing.”
“For Washington, it seems that whatever the problem is, the answer is bombing.”
U.S. Secretary of State, and supporter of wars in Iraq, Libya, Syria, and Ukraine, a man who once backed dividing Iraq into three countries, proponent of not really ending endless wars, cofounder of revolving-door dealer in shameless profiteering from government connections for weapons companies WestExec Advisors, Antony Blinken made a speech on Wednesday.
The Florida Peace & Justice Alliance hosted this webinar on “The journey to a world free of nuclear weapons – where we are and how you can get involved.”
“Castle Bravo” Nuclear Blast Reverberates 67 Years Later.
The USA Today, drawing on the work of the Cost of War Project, Quincy Institute, David Vine, William Hartung, and others, has gone beyond the limits of every other big corporate U.S. media outlet, and beyond what any member of the U.S. Congress has done, in a big new series of articles on wars, bases, and militarism.
The February meeting of NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) Defense Ministers, the first since President Biden took power, revealed an antiquated, 75-year-old alliance that, despite its military failures in Afghanistan and Libya, is now turning its military madness toward two more formidable, nuclear-armed enemies: Russia and China.
Huge military budgets will not protect us from extinction. Nations must redirect spending towards human security and peacekeeping now.
On January 22, 2021, the day the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons came into effect, we were honoured to sponsor an event hosted by the Canadian Foreign Policy Institute – The Threat of Nuclear Weapons: Why Canada Should Sign the UN Nuclear Ban Treaty featuring Noam Chomsky.
A Discussion with David Swanson, Alice Slater and Bruce Gagnon.