Posts Tagged ‘ Cuban Missile Crisis ’

Be a Citizen Diplomat in 2017

January 7, 2017
Be a Citizen Diplomat in 2017

SHARON TENNISON - For the whole of 2016, we have been actively deliberating how best to use the Center for Citizen Initiatives' 33-year experience in the US-Russia field––since Russia is increasingly being declared America’s enemy #1––which we totally reject. We’ve concluded that our successful programs of the ’80s are precisely what is needed again...

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The Cuban Missile Crisis-What It Has To Teach

October 19, 2016
The Cuban Missile Crisis-What It Has To Teach

JOHN PEPPER - In reading the recent biography of Robert Kennedy, Bobby Kennedy:The Making of a Liberal Icon by Larry Tye, I have acquired a very different understanding of the Cuban Missile Crisis and its relevance to the challenging geo-political situation we face today.

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Posted in Analysis, October 2016 | No Comments »

How Obama’s Aggression in Ukraine Risks Nuclear War

March 15, 2015
How Obama’s Aggression in Ukraine Risks Nuclear War

ROBERT ROTH - I voted for Barack Obama for president twice, for one reason: I thought he would not get us into a nuclear war. Now I’m afraid even that reason for my vote is wearing thin, threatened by US and NATO aggression in Ukraine. As the US continues threatening to send so-called “defensive”...

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Posted in Analysis, March 2015 | No Comments »

Hypermasculinity With World-Ending Weapons is Bad for Everyone

February 11, 2015
Hypermasculinity With World-Ending Weapons is Bad for Everyone

WINSLOW MYERS - Escalating tensions in the Ukraine raise the concern that the “firebreak” between conventional and the tactical nuclear weapons potentially available to all parties in the conflict could be breached, with unforeseen consequences.

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Posted in Analysis, February 2015 | 1 Comment »