DR. LAWRENCE WITTNER – Farsighted national leaders are busy organizing for UN Charter Review. Addressing the September 2025 launch of the Article 109 campaign, Ireland’s Mary Robinson spoke out decisively for UN empowerment, proclaiming: “The moment has come, and we need to be brave.”
Category: November 2025
We’re entering a new phase of the resistance
DANIEL HUNTER – We’re in a new phase of the struggle against authoritarianism in the U.S. — and it’s important to name it, track it, and adjust our bearings accordingly. We’ve shaken off the early months of shock, the steamrolled losses, and are now showing we can (sometimes) defend.
When Charlotte’s Web became a snare
GEORGE CASSIDY PAYNE – Charlotte never rescued Wilbur through dominance or fear; she rescued him through presence and the stubborn belief that even a small life is worth defending. We can choose that kind of action now. We can weave a different web, thread by thread, by standing with immigrant neighbors, supporting the community groups that shield families from harm, pushing back against the language that flattens human beings into categories, and offering care where fear has tried to take root.
America’s peril: The rot of anti-intellectualism and demagoguery is costing us our future
JARED O. BELL – Abraham Lincoln’s warning has never felt more urgent, a house divided against itself cannot stand. And America will not stand if we split into two realities, one grounded in evidence, the other built on delusions. Without shared truth, there can be no shared purpose, no shared future. Division doesn’t just weaken the house, it rots the foundation. Anti-intellectualism and demagoguery are the rot.
Nuremberg Law Should Apply to Nuclear Weapons Before They’re Used Again
JOHN LAFORGE – With another film depiction of the Nuremberg Military Tribunal story being debuted, today’s plans and preparations involving thermonuclear weapons should be adjudged in this historical context, before they are used again.
Investors see value in US clean power despite Trump cutbacks
NEIL FORD – Investment funds are seeking out clean power and grid projects that can meet booming U.S. power demand and the need for diversified electricity supplies.
The “House of Dynamite” sequel you didn’t know you needed
PATRICIA JAWOREK and ISABELLE WILLIAMS – Decision makers and the public must be reminded of what is at stake should scenarios like A House of Dynamite ever occur. Developing a modern, evidence-based understanding of nuclear risks in today’s world can paint a nuanced picture of the negative cascading effects of nuclear use—an especially important development at a time when the world is again inching closer to the brink and younger leaders and citizens are further removed from the horrors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
“The ‘Othered’ genocide: Sudan’s suffering and the world’s indifference
JARED O. BELL – Humanitarian action should never depend on the strategic interests of great powers, yet history shows that it often does. We should have learned this lesson from the Holocaust, Bosnia, and Rwanda, and countless other crises the world ignored because they did not fit political agendas. Silence is complicity, and we have seen where that leads again and again. Sudan is becoming the next horror we will one day mourn, even as it unfolds before our eyes and the world turns away.
Michael Mann to Bill Gates: You can’t reboot the planet if you crash it
MICHAEL MANN – Maybe—just maybe—we’ve learned an important lesson here: The solution to the climate crisis isn’t going to come from the fairy-dust-sprinkled flying unicorns that are the “benevolent plutocrats.” They don’t exist. The solution is going to have to come from everyone else, using every tool at our disposal to push back against an ecocidal agenda driven by plutocrats, polluters, petrostates, propagandists, and too often now, the press.
Facing imminent demolition orders, a West Bank village calls for international support
CASSIDY KLEIN and ASHLEY VER BEEK – As of Oct. 30, residents of Umm al-Khair have lawyers representing their case against the demolition orders, though the lawyers believe it will be difficult to stop the demolitions through legal action alone. The Umm al-Khair village is calling on the international community to pressure the Israeli government through media attention and by urging their representatives to intervene. They also say a larger protective presence of activists would help right now.
Rep. Titus Spearheads Effort to Prevent the Resumption of Nuclear Testing
ALYN WARE – Daryl G. Kimball, director of the nonpartisan Arms Control Association, warns, “The U.S. Congress, at the behest of the American people, led the way in 1991-1992 to halt U.S. nuclear testing and it is critical the Congress rally behind Rep. Dina Titus and Nevadans to block any attempts to resume nuclear explosive testing by the federal government in Nevada, or by any other government anywhere in the world.”
Trump’s Westinghouse Nuclear Fiasco: Wasting Money on a Corrupt Game of Hot Potato
NUCLEAR INFORMATION AND RESOURCE SERVICE (NIRS) – On Tuesday (October 26, 2025) the White House announced an $80 billion deal with Westinghouse to finance construction of eight large new reactors in the U.S. But the promise of a large, direct investment in a pack of new reactors has predictably revved up talk of yet another “Nuclear Renaissance” and made it look like the Donald J.Trump 2.0 administration is making good on big nuclear power goals from a group of executive orders issued in May.
Stop talking about “protests”
PETER BERGEL – Let’s believe in our own assertion of power and redouble our efforts to demonstrate it, not only by behaving as if we were powerful, but also by claiming a powerful name for one of our mass action tactics. We are not “protesters,” we are “demonstrators,” and we are demonstrating our strength.Let’s believe in our own assertion of power and redouble our efforts to demonstrate it, not only by behaving as if we were powerful, but also by claiming a powerful name for one of our mass action tactics. We are not “protesters,” we are “demonstrators,” and we are demonstrating our strength.