The desire of the “great powers” to safeguard themselves from the enforcement of international law is exemplified by the record of the U.S. government. By Lawrence Wittner Originally published on December 3, 2024 by Foreign Policy in Focus The International Criminal Court’s recent issuance of arrest warrants to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant for crimes against humanity and war crimes in Gaza has stirred up a considerable backlash. Dismissing the charges as “absurd and false,” Netanyahu announced that Israel would “not recognize the validity” of the ICC’s action. President Joe Biden denounced the arrest […]
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We Must Oppose Israel’s Dangerous Gamble Before It’s Too Late
A failure to stop Israel’s genocide of Palestinians gambles with the fate of humanity as a whole. EDITOR’S NOTE: After reading this important essay by Kathy Kelly, please click the link for the Action Alert to Urge Governments to Use UN General Assembly Res 377 “Uniting For Peace” for Peace in Palestine. By Kathy Kelly* August 7, 2024 Following World War II, Albert Camus posed a “formidable gamble” to those who had survived a tragedy of immense proportions. “We’re in history up to our necks,” he observed, yet we must wager that “words are more powerful than munitions.” “Leave or […]
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Nuclear War Is Imminent
Unless the U.S. Embraces Peace! by Gerry Condon (originally published at Antiwar.com on July 15, 2024) EDITOR’S NOTE: We are republishing this article on the anniversary of the Trinity Test. On July 16, 1945 the United States government detonated the first (experimental) nuclear weapon in the test named Trinity. Less than one month after the Trinity test, the United States dropped two atomic bombs – on the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki – that killed over 100,000 people in less time than it took to type a few of these words. As many as 220,000 were dead from the effects […]
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Donald Trump’s Reckless Infatuation with Nuclear Weapons
How the nuclear arms race intensified during Trump’s presidency EDITOR’S NOTE: THE VIEWS EXPRESSED BY CONTRIBUTORS ARE THEIR OWN. BY LAWRENCE S. WITTNER Over the last decade and more, nuclear war has grown increasingly likely. Most nuclear arms control and disarmament agreements of the past have been discarded by the nuclear powers or will expire soon. Moreover, there are no nuclear arms control negotiations underway. Instead, all nine nuclear nations (Russia, the United States, China, Britain, France, India, Pakistan, Israel and North Korea) have begun a new nuclear arms race, qualitatively improving the 12,121 nuclear weapons in existence or building new, much faster, and deadlier […]
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Protect Freedom of Expression: Free Julian Assange Now!
Editor’s Note: The following statement was issued as a news release on February 26, 2024. For press inquiries, please contact Leonard Eiger at outreach@gzcenter.org or at 360-375-3207. Ground Zero Center for Nonviolent Action supports Julian Assange for exposing war crimes committed by the United States (US) government, and calls on the government of the United Kingdom (UK) release him immediately and facilitate his safe return to Australia. Last week in London, lawyers for imprisoned WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange asked the British High Court of Justice to grant him a new appeal, which would likely be his last chance to avoid […]
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