Tag: peace

Is detente making a comeback?

It couldn’t be more important to make America’s disastrous wars of this century more visible.

This intervention by an important group of U.S. national security experts comes at a time when Ukraine is delaying its long-promised spring offensive to avoid "unacceptable" losses, and a return to the negotiating table can therefore save countless lives.

The national press is a no show.

Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry, fully engaged in corralling, containing, and constraining it, Eisenhower concluded, could save democracy and bolster peaceful methods and goals. 

President Biden and his coterie of neo-conservatives have no interest in peace if it means the U.S. concedes hegemonic power to a multi-polar world unbothered from the all-mighty dollar.

The United States bears its share of responsibility for this crisis that is destroying Ukraine and placing the world in "unprecedented danger," as the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists' new Doomsday Clock statement calls it.

You work for peace because “it’s a moral responsibility to oppose the war machine."

At a time when Americans had little interest in the Vietnam War.

"The chances of a nuclear war increase significantly every day that passes."