Michael Klare’s smart article below lays out the context for the dangerous escalation of a new nuclear arms race: Dividing the World Into Opposing Camps Is the Road to Armageddon Washington aims to recast NATO in the image of the US military, with its focus on “great power competition” and a renewed arms race with Russia and China. By Michael T. Klare for The Nation https://www.thenation.com/article/world/new-cold-war-china/
The “national security” baloney that has caused many stupid, endless wars — and the extremely dangerous nuclear weapons arms race since the 1940s — is escalating into space, regardless of the 1967 treaty that prohibits militarizing space. Trump — and now Biden — have been making Planet Earth more dangerous. Karl Grossman, one of the world’s top experts on space weapons, wrote this powerful June 16, 2021, article on escalating U.S. warfare in space” “New Space Force laboratory opens: A breakdown on space warfare ‘autonomy.’” It includes this quotation: “The U.S. imperial war project, now marching headlong into the […]
The U.S. has a very long history of arming dictators and human rights abusers. This was already going on long before the U.S. and Britain overthrew Iran’s democracy and installed the extremely brutal Shah of Iran in 1953. The U.S. armed that brutal dictator throughout the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s. After the Shah’s demise, the U.S. armed Iraq’s Saddam Hussein so he could fight his war against Iran. Then the U.S. violently overthrew him and armed many sides in the chaos that arose directly because of the U.S.’s war there. In recent years the U.S. has armed MANY different factions […]
This FREE ONLINE course has four 2-hour class sessions with fascinating, fresh information about the history and current realities of nuclear weapons. Four well informed persons developed and present this course and include discussions among participants. People who have taken this course many times in the past have learned a lot and felt empowered to work to abolish nuclear weapons. The four presenters (from the Olympia WA Coalition to Abolish Nuclear Weapons) are offering it again in OCTOBER 2021. You may choose either TUESDAYS or SATURDAYS. THIS DOCUMENT provides information about the course – and how you can sign […]
You visited this blog because you care about important issues, such as peace, climate, economics, democracy, social justice, human rights, or ___________. YOU can make MUCH MORE PROGRESS on important issues by strengthening your skills in organizing nonviolent grassroots movements! Let’s set smart goals and devise smart strategies. Let’s reach out to the public more effectively than we have been doing. Let’s devise ways to be more effective in how we nonviolently push the people who have the official power to serve the broad public interest. ALL OF US — new people, experienced organizers, and everybody in between — can […]
Typically, people assume that if our government is fighting a war, that war is “just.” Historically and currently, some institutional churches say they support the “Just War” criteria. Actually, the “Just War” criteria go back for many centuries, and our wars — and specifically any use of nuclear weapons — violate the “Just War” criteria. These two documents provide solid information: Principles of the Just War Just War criteria and discussion
The July 2021 interview on “Glen’s Parallax Perspectives” TV series helps you and other people make more progress when we work on issues you care about. Many of the issues we care about are HUGE issues in which WE are the UNDERDOGS. Powerful forces created the unjust status quo — and powerful forces sustain the injustices we are trying to eliminate. Because we are the underdogs in these big issues, we need to empower ourselves and bring many people together so we can organize large nonviolent grassroots movements to solve the problems and create peaceful and just societies at the […]
We are offering this popular FREE ONLINE course again in JULY. People who have taken this course have learned a lot and felt empowered to work to abolish nuclear weapons. We are offering it again in JULY. You may choose either TUESDAYS or SATURDAYS. THIS DOCUMENT provides information about the course – and how you can sign up: OCANW nuclear weapons course — JULY 2021 If you have questions, please e-mail me at glenanderson@integra.net or phone me at (360) 491-9093. Thanks!
Yes! We can ABOLISH nuclear weapons – and use the savings to fund the Green New Deal! Warheads to Windmills is a powerfully informative and inspiring (and easy-to-read) booklet just 70 pages long. It does an EXCELLENT job of linking the movement to abolish nuclear weapons with the movement for a Green New Deal. You can read it online or print it out at this link: https://www.nuclearban.us/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/Warheads-Windmills-FINAL-single-file.pdf Several Olympia organizations have joined together to schedule a 2-part discussion of this great booklet for the summer of 2021. We’ll discuss the nuclear weapons part on Thursday July 8 from 6:30 […]
The “War on Terror” has provoked violent extremism in Africa: https://fpif.org/u-s-counterterrorism-in-africa-has-failed-whats-the-alternative/?emci=74038a8b-dca2-eb11-85aa-0050f237abef&emdi=bb38c43a-8ea3-eb11-85aa-0050f237abef&ceid=3993183 Endless War Is A Feature of Our National Programming: On Pulling the Plug on the War Machine. William J. Astore posted this on May 10, 2021: https://www.juancole.com/2021/05/endless-national-programming.html Biden is training an African military in “counter-insurgency” warfare: The U.S. military has begun training Mozambican security forces to combat an insurgency in their country. It seems twenty years of failure of the military-first “counterterrorism” strategy won’t stop us from exporting it to others. SEE THIS: https://www.africanews.com/2021/03/15/us-forces-to-train-mozambique-s-marines-to-fight-jihadist-insurgency// The U.S.’s “war on terror” slaughters innocent people. […]
On June 16, Biden and Putin will hold their first summit. For many years Russia has pledged NOT to use nuclear weapons first, but the U.S. has NEVER made such a pledge. See the information here – and sign this petition – urging Biden and Putin to AGREE on a “NO FIRST USE” pledge: https://mailchi.mp/baselpeaceoffice.org/invitation-to-endorse-a-no-first-use-appeal-to-presidents-biden-and-putin?e=dfcf1cbcd3 Many experts have been writing articles explaining how Biden’s foreign policy is largely indistinguishable from Trump’s. Biden is supporting and funding many of the weapons – including NUCLEAR weapons – that Trump supported. Please click to sign this message urging Biden to pledge “NO […]
Click the link below ANY TIME to hear the recording of Glen Anderson discussing nuclear weapons legislation, etc., on Kim Dobson’s “Parallel University” radio program on KAOS-FM, 89.3 Olympia. This is an easy way to learn about important federal legislation and policies about nuclear weapons (and also the historic Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons). Kim Dobson’s Parallel University radio program on Thursday May 11, 2021, featured Glen Anderson discussing these issues. You can listen now or any time at your convenience through this MP 3 link: Parallel U 5-13-21.mp3 Also, you can read the document linked below, […]
For many years the Pentagon – in violation of federal law – has NOT passed a real audit. The Pentagon keeps failing to be accountable to presidents or to Congress or to the taxpayers. Congress and presidents keep failing to hold the Pentagon accountable. Voters keep failing to hold Congress and presidents accountable. We need a strong grassroots movement. We have known about this problem for many years. Bernie Sanders is making a new push now. See the article linked here. To ‘End the Absurdity’ of Wasteful Military Spending, Sanders Introduces Bill to Audit the Pentagon Tell your […]
The June 2021 interview on “Glen’s Parallax Perspectives” TV series helps you understand the problems in U.S. foreign policy and some bold ways to solve those problems and support peace and justice worldwide. Two guests explored the problems and solutions: John Feffer is a Project Director working on a variety of foreign policy issues at the Institute for Policy Studies, an exceptionally savvy non-profit organization based in Washington DC. Their website is ips-dc.org. I enjoyed reading his writings for a long time, even before I recruited him to be a guest for this interview. Metta Spencer is a retired professor […]
Ordinary Americans want peace, but BOTH of the big political parties keep supporting and funding nuclear weapons, regardless of which party is in the White House or which party runs Congress. I have been updating the attached document that urges us to inform ourselves and take action about a number of very important pieces of federal legislation and related policies. SEE THIS DOCUMENT: Nuclear Weapons legislation and policies need our action now — Updated to May 9 2021
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