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. …
JWE marks anniversary of the Évian Accords with new Learning Hub
March 18, 2022 will be the 60th anniversary of the notable peace agreement between the government of France and the National Liberation Front of Algeria (FLN), under which the French …
Where to now, the “world order”?
(Cross-posted from my personal blog, “Just World News“) By launching a broad military campaign against Ukraine today, Russia’s President Vladimir Putin has also launched a strong assault against the norms …
Amb. Matlock on Ukraine: An avoidable crisis
Amb. Jack Matlock Jr. was Ambassador to Moscow for the two U.S. Presidents who, between them, brought the extremely perilous, decades-long Cold War between the United States and the Soviet …