Tag: nuclear weapons
UN bans nuclear weapons; fifty nations ratify international treaty
"We continue to call for an elimination of all nuclear weapons worldwide."
Effective January 1, 2021 nuclear weapons will be illegal
50th country ratifies UN treaty banning nuclear weapons!
A thousand times worse
In reality, Americans have never been shy about killing on a mass scale in the alleged cause of righteousness and democracy.
Space Force’s blabbermouth-in-chief
The odds are our commander-in-chief has just given a case of the jitters to the entire defensive—and offensive—apparatus of the nuclear world.
America’s rush back to nuclear weapons
Lawrence Wilkerson is the former chief of staff to Secretary of State Colin Powell. He is current the Distinguished Adjunct Professor of...
Hiroshima, Nagasaki, and the spies who prevented a criminal US with...
Seventy-four years ago yesterday, the U.S. dropped the first-ever atomic bomb on the city of Hiroshima, a non-military target of several hundred...
Nuclear disarmament should be a top 2020 campaign issue but is...
With none of the major presidential candidates raising this kind of nuclear disarmament program, it is up to the US peace movement and Green Party candidates up and down the ticket to inject these demands into the 2020 elections.
Chomsky: Nuclear weapons, climate change & the undermining of democracy threaten...
Noam Chomsky looks at how the threat of nuclear war remains one of the most pressing issues facing mankind.
A farewell to arms control?
Let’s hope that the Trump administration proves to be the detour on the path to finally bidding farewell to nuclear arms.
What’s behind Bolton’s attacks on the ‘troika of tyranny’?
With all eyes focused these days on Trump and his myriad crimes, John Bolton’s speeches are a reminder that even worse options are waiting in the wings.
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Israelis invade Syria: Who will stop Israel?
Israel's latest land-grab in Syria, and the UN and the rest of the world's inability to stop Israel from ignoring and violating the UN Charter, the Geneva Conventions and the Genocide Convention.
The world’s four legacy empires going down
In a future full of signs that the four empires that have long dominated our world are all crumbling.
Luigi Mangione and Daniel Penny display the scale of acceptance for vigilante violence
The contrast in how Penny and Mangione have been covered in the media and treated by the elite show that vigilante violence actually is acceptable in America when carried out against those with little to no agency.
Trump’s pick to lead federal housing agency has opposed efforts to aid the poor
Such views would seemingly place Turner at odds with the core work of HUD, a sprawling federal agency that serves as a backstop against homelessness for millions of the nation’s poor, elderly and disabled.
It was the rage of the age
Was Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, a private research facility in Suffolk County, pivotal to the spread of eugenics through the United States and world?