Tag: Ukraine

The U.S. agreed to send 31 tanks, and Germany agreed to 14.

The United States bears its share of responsibility for this crisis that is destroying Ukraine and placing the world in "unprecedented danger," as the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists' new Doomsday Clock statement calls it.

Looking at the conflict and its underlying causes may help to suggest a path to a mutually-acceptable diplomatic solution.

By 2025, only about two years from now, renewable energy will surpass coal as a power source globally.

People all over the world are calling for a Christmas truce, harkening back to the inspirational Christmas Truce of 1914.

After the catastrophic wars and ballooning U.S. military budgets of the past 25 years, we should be wise by now to the escalatory nature of the vicious spiral in which we are caught.

There is an alternative. We can and must resolve this conflict through peaceful diplomacy and negotiation, to end the killing and destruction and let the people of Ukraine live in peace.

The letter reads “.... we urge you to pair the military and economic support the United States has provided to Ukraine with a proactive diplomatic push, redoubling efforts to seek a realistic framework for a ceasefire.”

Lessons from the War on Terror.

"All nuclear exercises imply willingness to mass murder civilians, wipe out entire cities, and risk all-out nuclear war," said ICAN. "They also risk accidents and escalation, and will legitimize Russia's dangerous nuclear rhetoric."