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(Une version française suit en dessous) At the end of this month’s CPNN bulletin concerning the Treaty on Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, we say the following: “Many of the organizations above make demands of the nuclear states to begin the process of nuclear disarmament. And people are invited to sign appeals to these governments such … Read more
(Une version française suit en dessous) The news is not good for the coming year of 2021. During 2020, the news about the global covid pandemic and the drama of Donald Trump have over-shadowed the most dangerous trend : the ever-increasing waste of public funds in the form of military spending. As we enter the … Read more
(Une version française suit en dessous) We have advanced to a new level, an historic step forward, in the struggle for a culture of peace. For the first time there are so many virtual events for the culture of peace free and open to the public that we have begun listing them on CPNN. Now … Read more
(Une version française suit en dessous) (for a version with the illustrations, click here.) In order to understand the deep meaning of the US election results, and to compare them to the electoral situation in France, I have downloaded a series of maps from the Internet showing the relation between voting patterns, poverty and urbanization. … Read more
(Une version française suit en dessous) I started to write a new blog reacting to the strength of Trump and the Republican party in the US election, and realized that I already wrote such a blog in 2017 and all I need to do is to make a few updates at the end of the article. Back … Read more
(Une version française suit en dessous) Looking at the results this year from our survey of the International Day of Peace, I am struck by two aspects, one long term and one short term, that bode well for the future. The long-term aspect reflects the enormous mobilization of school children to celebrate peace in Russia, … Read more
(Une version française suit en dessous) This month’s CPNN bulletin shows how, in the face of pessimistic predictions for the United States, to the point of civil war, there are many progressive initiatives advancing. It’s the dialectics of history in action: “when the going gets tough, the tough get going.” And it raises the hopes … Read more
(Une version française suit en dessous) The American empire is crashing. What will it be like. Let us look at recent precedents. The last empire to crash was the Soviet empire 30 years ago. At the time it was led by Mikhail Gorbachev, a man of peace and harmony, its population was not seriously divided … Read more
(See below for French) To succeed the struggle against racism needs to be understood in the context of the struggle against the culture of war. In my history of the culture of war, I quote Malcolm X at length: “”Book after book showed me how the white man had brought upon the world’s black, brown, … Read more
Trump is now trapped. His Republican presidential predecessor, George W. Bush, has called for the unification of America and that means that Trump has to go. The defense secretary that he named two years ago has denounced his call to militarize the response to American protests, and that means that Trump cannot call on the … Read more