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Nuclear Weapons and Nationalism: An Incendiary Mix

Andrew Lichterman Andrew Lichterman
The first UN General Assembly's first resolution set up a commission to bring back proposals to eliminate atomic weapons and all other weapons of mass destruction and to control atomic energy. That was seventy-seven years ago.

A Picture of Global Complicity: Aiding Myanmar’s Military Regime

Binoy Kampmark CounterPunch
Myanmar’s military junta is not short of partners. Indeed, business, notably in the arms market, continues unabated. Such conduct makes a mockery of the sanctio ns and injunctions imposed by the EU, United States and other states since the 2021 coup.

Envisioning a World Without Nuclear Weapons

H Patricia Hynes Portside
While nuclear weapons governments and their bomb-making industries are criminally sleepwalking into what could mean the end of our planet’s life, many others – scientists, high-level military, citizens and whole countries – are countering the weapons holders’ political idiocy with principled intelligence.

There Is an Alternative to War

Lawrence Wittner Z Blogs
Fortunately, there is another way―one that major thinkers and even, at times, national governments have promoted. And that is strengthened global governance.
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