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Détente Now: A New Call for Peace, Security, and Cooperation

December 16, 2016

GILBERT DOCTOROW, UTE FINCKH-KRAMER, LUDGER VOLMER, ROLF EKEUS and NOAM CHOMSKY - A transatlantic appeal for a new policy of détente with Russia has been launched. The declaration’s authors invite the general public to join leading political figures and social activists who have publicly rallied to support the call.

Tags: American Committee for East West Accord, Association of International Physicians for Prevention of Nuclear War, Baltic countries, Chancellor Willy Brandt, Charter of Paris, Daniel Ellsberg, European Union, Gilbert Doctorow, Ludger Volmer, NATO, Noam Chomsky, Nuclear Age Peace Foundation, Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, Rolf Ekéus, Syria, Ukraine, Ute Finckh-Krämer, Veteran Intelligence Officials for Sanity, World Council of Churches
Posted in Big Picture, December 2016 | No Comments »

Trump’s Possible Path out of Ukraine Crisis

December 4, 2016

JONATHAN MARSHALL - If Donald Trump wants to make a decisive and constructive mark on U.S. foreign policy early in his presidency, there’s no better place to start than by helping to end the brutal war in Ukraine that has claimed some 10,000 lives.

Tags: Crimea, Donald Trump, Jonathan Marshall, Ukraine, Vladimir Putin
Posted in Analysis, December 2016 | No Comments »

Jury is Still Out on Trump’s Foreign Policy Agenda

November 24, 2016

ROBERT PARRY - By inviting in Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, a Democrat hostile to “regime change” wars, President-elect Trump may be signaling a major break with Republican neocon orthodoxy and a big shake-up of the U.S. foreign policy establishment.

Tags: Al-Qaeda, Barack Obama, Bernie Sanders, Crimean peninsula, Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton, ISIS, neoconservatives, Robert Parry, Tulsi Gabbard, Ukraine, Vladimir Putin
Posted in Analysis, November 2016 | No Comments »

The Cuban Missile Crisis-What It Has To Teach

October 19, 2016

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.

Tags: Cuban Missile Crisis, Fidel Castro, John Pepper, President John Kennedy, Robert Kennedy, Ukraine
Posted in Analysis, October 2016 | No Comments »

U.S. Military Contractors Tell Investors Russian Threat Is Great for Business

August 28, 2016

LEE FANG - The escalating anti-Russian rhetoric in the U.S. presidential campaign comes in the midst of a major push by military contractors to position Moscow as a potent enemy that must be countered with a drastic increase in military spending by NATO countries. Weapon makers have told investors that they are relying on...

Tags: Lee Fang, NATO, President George W. Bush, Russian President Vladimir Putin, Stephen Hadley, Ukraine
Posted in August 2016, Big Picture | No Comments »

Evaluating Obama’s Foreign Policy Record

June 10, 2016

MEL GURTOV - How should we evaluate Obama’s foreign policy record? Right-wing critics will of course excoriate Obama for all the usual things—weakness against adversaries like Russia and China, negotiating with instead of subverting Cuba and Iran, eviscerating the US military, undermining relations with Israel. On the left, Obama is already being...

Tags: Benjamin Netanyahu, Cold War, Crimea, Donald Trump, drone warfare, Edward Snowden, George W. Bush, Guantanamo, Hillary Clinton, Keystone XL, Mel Gurtov, President Rouhani, Ukraine, Vladimir Putin, Xi Jinping
Posted in Analysis, June 2016 | No Comments »

NATO’s Dangerous Game: Bear-Baiting Russia

May 13, 2016

CONN HALLINAN - “Aggressive,” “revanchist,” “swaggering”: These are just some of the adjectives the mainstream press and leading U.S. and European political figures are routinely inserting before the words “Russia,” or “Vladimir Putin.” It is a vocabulary most Americans have not seen or heard since the height of the Cold War. The question is,...

Tags: 1962 Cuban missile crisis, Cold War, Conn Hallinan, German Chancellor Helmut Kohl, Joe Donnelly, John McCain, NATO, Soviet Premier Mikhail Gorbachev, U.S. Secretary of State James Baker, Ukraine, Vladimir Putin
Posted in Big Picture, May 2016 | No Comments »

Are the U.S. and Russian Governments Once Again on the Nuclear Warpath?

February 17, 2015

LAWRENCE S. WITTNER - A quarter century after the end of the Cold War and decades after the signing of landmark nuclear arms control and disarmament agreements, are the U.S. and Russian governments once more engaged in a potentially disastrous nuclear arms race with one another? It certainly looks like it.

Tags: 1987 INF Treaty, Ashton Carter, Cold War, Crimea, Lawrence S. Wittner, Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty of 1947, Putin, Start Treaty of 2011, Ukraine
Posted in Analysis, February 2015 | No Comments »

Three Members of Congress Just Reignited the Cold War While No One Was Looking

December 19, 2014

DENNIS KUCINICH - Late Thursday night , the House of Representatives unanimously passed a far-reaching Russia sanctions bill, a hydra-headed incubator of poisonous conflict. The second provocative anti-Russian legislation in a week, it further polarizes our relations with Russia, helping to cement a Russia-China alliance against Western hegemony, and undermines long-term America’s financial...

Tags: Cold War, Dennis Kucinich, Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty, National Endowment for Democracy, NATO, nuclear non-proliferation treaty, Patriot Act, Ukraine
Posted in Big Picture, December 2014 | No Comments »

America is on a “Hot War Footing”: House Legislation Paves the Way for War with Russia?

December 13, 2014

MICHAL CHOSSUDOVSKY - America is on a war footing. While a World War Three Scenario has been on the drawing board of the Pentagon for more than ten years, military action against Russia is now contemplated at an “operational level.” Similarly, both the Senate and the House have introduced enabling legislation which provides...

Tags: Dennis Kucinich, Michel Chossudovsky, NATO, Putin, Senate Foreign Relations Committtee, Ukraine
Posted in Big Picture, December 2014 | No Comments »

Germany Does Something the U.S. Hasn’t for Peace

December 11, 2014

DAVID SWANSON - Imagine a letter co-signed by former presidents, former representatives from both sides of the aisle, House speakers, former governors, attorneys general, cabinet members, ambassadors, CEOs, movie stars and directors, writers, astronauts, religious leaders, mayors, academics, mainstream media correspondents, and more — all united in stating “Nobody wants war.” Imagine the...

Tags: Charter of Paris for a New Europe, Cold War, Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe, Crimea, David Swanson, European Union, Georgia, NATO, Ukraine, Vladimir Putin
Posted in Big Picture, December 2014 | No Comments »

U.S. ‘Group Think’ on Syria, Ukraine Endangers World Peace

December 9, 2014

ROBERT PARRY - Neocon ideology appears to have seized near total control over the editorial pages of America’s premier news organizations, including the New York Times and the Washington Post, contributing to an information crisis inside “the world’s superpower,” a development that should unnerve both Americans and the world community.

Tags: Al Qaeda's Nusra Front, Bashar al-Assad, Crimea, European Union, Henry Kissinger, Islamic State, neocons, New York Times, Robert Parry, Ukraine, Vladimir Putin, Washington Post
Posted in Analysis, December 2014 | No Comments »

Possible GOP Ultimatum to Putin Too Much for True Conservatives

August 31, 2014

PAT BUCHANAN - Editor’s Note: "Who would have thought The PeaceWorker would run an article by conservative Pat Buchanan? Read it and you’ll see why." July 28, 2014 - With the party united, the odds are now at least even that the GOP will not only hold the House but also capture the...

Tags: Bob Corker, Crimea, Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF Treaty), NATO, Pat Buchanan, Ukraine
Posted in Analysis, August 2014 | No Comments »

Unique Peace Video

February 3, 2010

KSIYA SIMONOVA: The winner of "Ukraine’s Got Talent,” Kseniya Simonova, 24, draws a series of pictures on an illuminated sand table showing how ordinary people were affected by the German invasion during World War II. Her unusual talent is mesmeric to watch.

Tags: peace, sand painting, Simonova, Ukraine, video, war
Posted in Feb 2010, Networking, What's Happening In the Movement | No Comments »

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