May 21 2014 - 12:06pm
“I am a pacifist. You, my fellow citizens … are pacifists, too.” -- Franklin D. Roosevelt, May 1940
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Benjamin Franklin said there never was a good war or a bad peace, but you’d never know it from Memorial Day in the United States.
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May 19 2014 - 4:26pm
The Marshall Islands have sued nine nuclear nations to compel compliance with the Nonproliferation Treaty, which requires the elimination of nuclear weapons. We speak with Rick Wayman, dir Read more
May 19 2014 - 8:47am
Monday, May 26th is Memorial Day!
May 2014 also marks the Sesquicentennial “150th Anniversary” of the first military burials conducted at Arlington National Cemetery.
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May 18 2014 - 5:47pm
SEATTLE, Wash. – The proliferation of social media and the almost daily introduction of new electronic devices are quickly destroying good old fashioned common courtesy, the backbone of customer service. I lay the blame on the techies in Silicon Valley.
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May 18 2014 - 12:41pm
By T., a teacher from Odessa -- submitted by Bruce Gagnon
http://warisacrime.org/content/nazi-danger-letter-odessa
I have lived in Odessa since my early childhood and adore this sunny south city with its hospitable and witty people. Odessa is a multinational city which is reflected in the names of its streets: French and Italian Boulevards, Greek and Bulgarian Streets, Moldavian district, etc. Odessa was built according to a decree issued by the Russian empress Catherine the Great over 200 years ago as a Russian port city on the Black Sea. And it was constructed by French and Italian architects and engineers invited by Catherine. That is why it is said to resemble Paris …
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May 16 2014 - 4:02pm
By David Hartsough
http://warisacrime.org/content/war-and-peace-korea-and-vietnam-%E2%80%93-journey-peace
I have recently returned from three weeks in Korea and Vietnam, countries which have in the past suffered and are still suffering from the ravages of war.
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May 15 2014 - 3:14pm
By Kent D. Shifferd
The latest border changes in Ukraine are just another replay of too many past scenarios: the breakup of former Yugoslavia, East Timor, Chechnya, the Sudetenland Crisis of the 1930s, and the centuries-long back and forth of the Alsace and Lorraine between France and Germany. If we could base the resolution of these types of conflict on recognizing the five principles outlined here, we could greatly reduce the dangers of civil and interstate war.
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May 15 2014 - 1:19pm
Updated 4 years ago
by Kent D. Shifferd
The latest border changes in Ukraine are just another replay of too many past scenarios: the breakup of former Yugoslavia, East Timor, Chechnya, the Sudetenland Crisis of the 1930s, and the centuries-long back and forth of the Alsace and Lorraine between France and Germany. If we could base the resolution of these types of conflict on recognizing the five principles outlined here, we could greatly reduce the dangers of civil and interstate war. Read more
May 15 2014 - 12:30pm
In my previous commentary, I argued that the 53-nation Commonwealth association is an important instrument for the promotion of the interests of small states including those in the Caribbean. But, I also pointed out that it is facing significant challenges to its existence.
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May 12 2014 - 10:48am
Is overwhelming national military power a reliable source of influence in world affairs?
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May 10 2014 - 12:55pm
This goes deeper than the usual war lies.
We've had plenty of those. We weren't told the Taliban was willing to turn bin Laden over to a neutral nation to stand trial. We weren't told the Taliban was a reluctant tolerator of al Qaeda, and a completely distinct group. We weren't told the 9/11 attacks had also been planned in Germany and Maryland and various other places not marked for bombing.
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May 8 2014 - 6:41pm
A petition to the President and the Attorney General has just been posted by several organizations, including one I work for, asking that the Department of Justice stop threatening New York Times reporter James Risen with prison if he refuses to reveal a confidential source.
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May 8 2014 - 9:08am
The 53-nation Commonwealth association is an important instrument for the promotion of the interests of small states including those in the Caribbean.
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May 5 2014 - 12:44pm
Watching CNN today, Monday, May 5, 2014, I saw coverage of jailed journalists in Egypt -- a country that gets more than $1 billion a Year from the U.S.
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May 4 2014 - 8:36pm
http://warisacrime.org/content/search-good-war
The U.S. public is not longing for a U.S. war in Ukraine.
Seven percent want military options considered (poll by McClatchy-Marist, April 7-10), up from six percent a bit earlier (Pew, March 20-23), or 12 percent for U.S. ground troops and 17 percent for air strikes (CNN,March 7-9).
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May 2 2014 - 3:19pm
By Arthur Solomon
It’s almost Mother’s Day, which is Sunday, May 11, so let’s talk about the Mothers of Our Country, the First Ladies.
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May 1 2014 - 8:22pm
“No matter how cynical you become, it’s never enough to keep up.” — Lily Tomlin
Ontario Power Generation (OPG) — which owns or leases 20 nuclear reactors across Ontario — would save loads of cash by not having to contain, monitor and repackage leaky above-ground radioactive waste storage casks. Last September, I testified in Ontario against the company’s plan to deeply bury some of this waste next to Lake Huron.
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May 1 2014 - 11:05am
On Wednesday, April 30, 2014, I watched Tamron Hall of MSNBC cover the story of the kidnapping of more than 200 school girls in Nigeria (on Thursday, May 1, she had another segment on the kidnapping story. I'm a big fan of Luling, TX native Tamron Hall!) This is the first time I've seen a major news outlet devote substantial time to this latest Islamist crime.
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Apr 28 2014 - 5:21pm
Scientists are using the shifting of Earth's poles to measure climate change: http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn24755-earths-poles-are-shifting-be...
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Apr 27 2014 - 4:09am
Updated 4 years ago
This past Thursday, April 24th, historic lawsuits were filed against the U.S. and the eight other Nuclear Weapons States (NWS) of the world to meet their treaty obligations to disarm by the courageous tiny island nation Republic of the Marshall Islands. Read more
Apr 26 2014 - 1:23am
Excuse my raising the very idea the UN is failing utterly, where is this outfit while the Russians run amok on the border of Ukraine?
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Apr 24 2014 - 9:59pm
Are you as tired as I am of news stories about college tuition costs rising? I've been out of college for many years, and you'd have to pay me to go back, but this is ridiculous.
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Apr 24 2014 - 12:35pm
The greatest critics of regional integration in the countries of the 15-members Caribbean Community and Common Market (CARICOM) are those who assert that their country can progress by itself, delivering all the goods and services that its people need, protect its people from external threats, and secure a respectable and respected place for it in the international community. That assertion is a falsehood Read more
Apr 23 2014 - 3:43pm
Saturday April 26 is Confederate Memorial Day in Georgia and other states. Some states also observe this Southern holiday of remembrance in May and June.
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Apr 22 2014 - 11:14pm
When Jonathan Schell, the most cogent moral philosopher of the nuclear age, died of cancer last month, it left a rift in the moral fabric of our small planet, a hole similar in size to those left by the three Alberts—Camus, Einstein and Bigelow. Never heard of Bert Bigelow? He was the Harvard grad who in 1958 twice tried to sail his ketch, the
Golden Rule, into the waters of the South Pacific where nuclear weapons were being tested—and found time as well to be beaten up by racist thugs alongside Congressman John Lewis while protesting for civil rights.
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Apr 20 2014 - 11:15am
I don't really believe in miracles or anything else that could be described as supernatural. Virtually every scientific investigation of such phenomena has found explanations in the real world for what many people would like to believe is other worldly. In fact, for several years one such investigating organization has offered a $1 million prize to anyone who could clearly demonstrate any sort of supernatural power. So far, no one has claimed the money.
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Apr 18 2014 - 1:57pm
By David Swanson
Ian Morris has stuck his dog's ear in his mouth, snapped a selfie, and proclaimed "Man Bites Dog." His new book War: What Is It Good For? Conflict and Progress of Civilization from Primates to Robots is intended to prove that war is good for children and other living things. It actually proves that defenders of war are growing desperate for arguments.
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Apr 17 2014 - 2:55pm
In what has to rate as one of the most insensitive and outrageous demands on a Caribbean country, US government representatives have told the Bahamas government that it must drop “all duties” on US products entering the country as a condition of being admitted to membership of the World Trade Organisation (WTO).
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Apr 17 2014 - 11:19am
In early April 2014, the U.S. Navy unveiled its Mach 7 Magnetic Mangler, “a railgun straight out of Star Trek that can take out targets at 100 miles with a projectile flying at nearly 7,000 feet per second.”
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Apr 14 2014 - 10:27am
Your doctors are worried about your health: in fact, about your very survival.
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Apr 13 2014 - 3:42pm
SEATTLE, Wash., April 13 – The television series “Mad Men” has started airing its seventh and final season (Sunday, April 13, 10 p.m. Eastern on AMC). I will miss watching this program since I’ve been a devoted follower from day one. The creator of the show, Matthew Weiner, has done an extraordinary job telling the story of the way Madison Avenue was in the 1950s and 1960s. And he wasn’t even born until 1965 and grew up in Los Angeles.
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Apr 13 2014 - 1:43pm
The word “jobs” is rife among the political lingo one might think candidates at all levels, including Romney and Obama, have magic formulae just waiting until the morning after election. Along with this are the screams from the Teabaggers, Limbaugh, Beck et al about illegal workers snagging jobs from Americans.
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Apr 10 2014 - 3:45pm
April 15th, Tax Day, our nation funds our national budget. On this day we fund the nation’s business and provide a proclamation to the world of the U.S. priorities for the next year. Ultimately, because they reveal our choices, budgets are moral documents and are supposed to represent the people’s priorities.
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Apr 10 2014 - 6:55am
The Commonwealth of 53 nations is facing yet another ordeal because of the government of Sri Lanka. This time the Sri Lankan government is refusing to co-operate with a UN-mandated investigation.
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Apr 10 2014 - 12:03am
Updated 4 years ago
Is there an emotional connection between the oceans and the pursuit of peace? For whatever reason, peace ships have been increasing in number over the past century.
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