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Jan 24, 2025 | 
counterpunch.org | Alice Slater
The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, with the advice of Albert Einstein and other scientists from the Manhattan Project who developed the atomic bomb, established a Doomsday Clock, in 1947, to illustrate the annihilating danger the earth is facing since the creation of the diabolical nuclear bomb.
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Oct 30, 2024 | 
secretnyc.co | Alice Slater |Danielle Valente
The Mysterious Bookshop has been delighting readers since 1979 with its lengthy list of crime, suspense, and thriller offerings.
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Oct 13, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Joseph Gerson |Bharat Dogra |Pratap Antony |Alice Slater
With the world, our species, facing the greatest danger of nuclear apocalypse since the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, this year’s Peace Prize will refocus world attention on the urgency of renewing nuclear disarmament diplomacy. The Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Nihon Hidankyo is long overdue and could not come at a more important time. The Hibakusha (A-bomb witness/survivors) of Nihon Hidankyo have been among the world’s most courageous and steadfast advocates of nuclear disarmament.
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Oct 10, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Bharat Dogra |Pratap Antony |Alice Slater |Ramzy Baroud
Human history has often been presented as a long succession of kings and their battles for thrones, so you can’t really blame those who end up imbibing an overwhelming sense of violence and rivalry from this ‘education’. This should not deflect attention from the fact that history’s real message is overwhelmingly for peace.
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Oct 8, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Pratap Antony |Alice Slater |Bharat Dogra |John Donohue
Man’s most valuable asset is ‘imagination’. Albert Einstein famously said, “Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world and all there ever will be to know and understand.”Imagination is basic to our internal lives Imagination is possibly one of the earliest human abilities and may have preceded language as a medium of thought by thousands of years.
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Oct 6, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Alice Slater |Bharat Dogra |Athmanathan Indrajith |Srinivas Katherasala
The world may have dodged an immediate bullet when the U.S. intelligence agencies warned, this week, that by giving in to Ukraine’s pleading for long range missiles that could attack targets deep into Russia, we would be poking the Russian bear beyond its patience without even influencing the outcome of the war in Ukraine’s favor.
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Oct 5, 2024 | 
commondreams.org | Alice Slater
The world may have dodged an immediate bullet when the U.S. intelligence agencies warned, this week, that by giving in to Ukraine’s pleading for long range missiles that could attack targets deep into Russia, we would be poking the Russian bear beyond its patience without even influencing the outcome of the war in Ukraine’s favor.
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Oct 2, 2024 | 
popularresistance.org | Red Scare |Alice Slater
Above photo: Russia ringing nuclear weapon use alarm bells but many in the West don’t buy the threat. Screengrab / NTV. The world may have dodged an immediate bullet. US intelligence agencies warned, this week, that by giving in to Ukraine’s pleading for long range missiles that could attack targets deep into Russia, we would be poking the Russian bear beyond its patience without even influencing the outcome of the war in Ukraine’s favor.
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Oct 2, 2024 | 
ipsnews.net | Alice Slater
Armed Conflicts, Editors' Choice, Featured, Global, Headlines, IPS UN: Inside the Glasshouse, Nuclear Disarmament, Nuclear Energy - Nuclear Weapons, TerraViva United Nations Opinion Reprint | | Print | NEW YORK, Oct 2 2024 (IPS) - The world may have dodged an immediate bullet when the US intelligence agencies warned, this week, that by giving in to Ukraine’s pleading for long range missiles that could attack targets deep into Russia, we would be poking the Russian bear beyond its patience...
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Jul 24, 2024 | 
slguardian.org | Alice Slater
On the heels of a new alliance announced this summer by Russia and North Korea for a pact pledging mutual defense, with the support of China, it is now shockingly being suggested in South Korea that it review its security policy with the US and end its reliance on the US guarantee, to employ on South Koreas’ behalf, US nuclear weapons as part of its “nuclear umbrella”. The “umbrella” is offered to all NATO states as well as the Pacific states of Japan, Australia, and South Korea.
