Nuclear Mad Men
By Daryl G. Kimball, Executive Director Less than 100 days into the administration of President Donald Trump, the war of words and nuclear threats between the United States and North…
Trump’s North Korea Standoff Rattles Allies and Adversaries
BY ROBBIE GRAMER, PAUL MCLEARY While the EU’s foreign-policy chief tries to defuse tensions in Northeast Asia, the Trump administration is lighting fires. European Union foreign-policy chief Federica Mogherini warned…
Why Is There So Little Popular Protest Against Today’s Threats of Nuclear War?
BY LAWRENCE S. WITTNER In recent weeks, the people of the world have been treated to yet another display of the kind of nuclear insanity that has broken out periodically…
UN talks to ban nuclear weapons: what can they achieve?
REBECCA JOHNSON, 19 April 2017 What should the nuclear ban treaty include – and what difference does it make, if nuclear-armed governments refuse to join the talks? Although most nuclear-armed…
WHY WE ARE ON HUNGER STRIKE IN ISRAEL’S PRISONS
HADARIM PRISON, Israel — Having spent the last 15 years in an Israeli prison, I have been both a witness to and a victim of Israel’s illegal system of mass arbitrary arrests and ill-treatment of Palestinian prisoners. After exhausting all other options, I decided there was no choice but to resist these abuses by going on a hunger strike.