Exactly forty years ago, in mid-September 1982, the Israeli military and their Lebanese-Falangist allies collaborated in committing a horrific, 42-hour-long massacre in the Palestinian refugee camps of Sabra and Shatila, …
Falk’s 1972 book ‘This Endangered Planet’ named one of the century’s top foreign-affairs books
We all send our deep congratulations to our board member (and friend), the distinguished international jurist Richard Falk, for having his 1971/1972 book This Endangered Planet named by Foreign Affairs …
The Tale of 2 Two Elizabeths
The following is a mash-up of two, multi-slide Instagram posts that we created recently. The ‘forward arrows’ were put on to show when to swipe on Instagram. If you are …
Pakistan’s flood disaster: A wake-up call for humanity (esp in the rich world)
The 230 million people of of Pakistan are living through an unprecedented disaster. By some accounts, one-third of their entire country has been flooded. The floods have torn through cities, …
Time to kill the NPT and its Nuclear Apartheid?
On August 1, representatives of the 191 states that are parties to the 1970 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) will be meeting in New York for the tenth of the “Review …
Indi Samarajiva’s dispatches from Sri Lanka
Back in March, two of the sessions in the 8-webinar series that Richard Falk and I co-hosted on the Ukraine crisis dealt with its international dimensions. In the 7th session, …
Tom Friedman’s dangerous nuclear idiocy
In his New York Times column today, TomFriedman expresses concern that the NATO-wide support that the campaign against Russia in Ukraine has enjoyed until now may be eroding: “One can …
Revisiting Tom Lehrer’s ‘nuclear’ songs
Tom Lehrer is a (sadly long-retired) singer-songwriter, and as it happens former math professor, whose self-produced records of wackily satirical songs struck a strong chord among supporters of the anti-nuclear …
Three movies to help inform about nuclear risks
In the lead-up to the mid-June Meeting of States Parties to the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW), we’re presenting a series of materials to help new generations …
Thinking about nuclear war in 2022
In the webinar series Just World Ed did on the Ukraine Crisis in March, one of the eight webinars (Session 8) started to address the nuclear risks associated with it. …