China’s Global Security Initiative should be carefully considered and discussed. Even a brief survey of world events indicates the pressing need for a different set of security arrangements from those currently pursued by the US and NATO allies.
The Europe for Peace Declaration was drafted in 2007 by members of the humanist movement to promote disarmament and peace through the immense power of non-violence. Internationally, it has been endorsed by Noam Chomsky, Mikhail Gorbachev, Giulietto Chiesa, Dario Fo, Margherita Hack and many organisations have backed the Declaration.
The campaign has spread around the world, and one of its main achievements was to help stop the United States from building a space shield in the Czech Republic, despite the majority of the population being against it.
Now we are committed to stopping the madness of the war in Ukraine between Russia and the US before it explodes into a third world war.
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Tom Sauer (2020) Power and Nuclear Weapons: The Case of the European Union, Journal for Peace and Nuclear Disarmament, 3:1, 41-59, DOI: 10.1080/25751654.2020.1764260
As the political philosopher Hannah Arendt once stated: “The danger is that these [deterrence] theories are not only plausible because they take their evidence from actually discernable present trends, but that, because of their inner consistency, they have a hypnotic effect; they put to sleep our common sense, which is nothing else but our mental organ for perceiving, understanding, and dealing with reality and factuality” (quoted in Harrington 2016, 105–106)
The 20 US nuclear bombs that are stationed at Germany’s Büchel Air Base have become so unpopular, that mainstream politicians and religious leaders have joined anti-war organizations in demanding their ouster and have promised to make the weapons a campaign issue in next year’s national elections.
Die Gefahr durch Atomwaffen steigt. Doch immer weniger Bürger kommen zu den Protesten. Ein Grund sind antieuropäische Positionen. Ein Kommentar von "Christoph Von Marshall"
The power of silence is overwhelming. This is the sound of guns falling silent on the Western front 1918. On the 100th anniversary of the Peace after the First World War 11h of November, we call for action to stop the present escalation that is increasing the risk of a war in the world. We…
Russia must halt its covert development of a banned cruise missile system or the United States will seek to destroy it before it becomes operational, Washington's envoy to NATO said on Tuesday.
Tony Robinson: "DiEM25 believes that nuclear weapons have no place in European security doctrines and that all nuclear weapons should be removed from European territory, be they British, French, American or Russian. We call on all European nations to sign the Ban Treaty as a matter of human survival."
Before the end of the cold war, nuclear apocalypse was a frightening possibility that overshadowed everyone’s lives. With tensions rising between the US and North Korea, we can learn valuable lessons from CND and Greenham Common