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DO WHATEVER YOU CAN TO HELP YOUR NEIGHBORS IN THIS TIME OF GREAT CRISIS

Written by JASON PRAMAS Posted December 17, 2020 Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS

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A holiday message

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INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS WOULD STRUGGLE UNDER PROPOSED DHS RULES

Written by WENJING DING AND HONGYU LIU Posted December 12, 2020 Filed Under: FEATURES, News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS, Politics

Orwellian runaround

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ELECTIONS DON’T SOLVE EVERYTHING

Written by JASON PRAMAS Posted November 2, 2020 Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS, Politics

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Push the US govt. to sign the nuclear weapons ban treaty. No matter which party wins this week.

Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS, Politics Tagged With: Apparent Horizon, ban, Column, Democracy, Honduras, ICANW, international, International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, Jamaica, Jason Pramas, military, Nauru, news, nuclear weapon, nuke, policy, Politics, treaty, Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, UN, united nations, usa

‘SELF AND OTHER’

Written by E MARTIN SCHOTZ MD Posted February 22, 2018 Filed Under: NEWS+OPINIONS, Op-Ed

 

The necessity of an international campaign to abolish nuclear weapons

 

Recent comments by the leaders of the United States and North Korea have reignited public concern about the danger of nuclear war. The Nobel Peace Prize was given this past year to the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons.


At the dawn of the nuclear age Albert Einstein warned, “The splitting of the atom has changed everything in the world except mankind’s mind, and so we drift toward unparalleled catastrophe.” What did Einstein mean? And what are the logical implications of Einstein’s insight? What changes must occur in our minds to avoid “unparalleled catastrophe”?  


There are at least three ways that the existence of nuclear weapons compels us to change our thinking—the way we think about self and other, the way we think about war and peace, and the way we think about democracy.

=&0=&: Many think that our military protects us and only endangers others. But with nuclear weapons this idea doesn’t hold. A malfunction on Russian radar could be catastrophic for the United States if it were to mistakenly register a US nuclear attack. We are left with the hope that there will be no problems with Russian radar. Similarly everyone must hope that there are no problems with our radar systems. The vast destructive power of nuclear weapons has entangled us with our “enemies” such that the less secure they are, the less secure we are. Furthermore, the destructive power of nuclear weapons means that using a fraction of the nuclear bombs in the United States arsenal would kill and injure immeasurable numbers of people, seriously damage the environment, and disrupt agriculture on a worldwide scale. Nuclear weapons have turned the moral imperative “Do unto others as you would have them do unto you” into a practical necessity, because what we do unto others will be done to us. Can we understand that only by seeing to the other’s security will we be truly secure?

=&1=&: People commonly think of war and peace as opposite states of being. Peace ends and wars begin when the weapons start going off. But with nuclear weapons such thinking is not permissible, because nuclear war doesn’t begin when the weapons go off. Nuclear war ends when the weapons go off. If this is how nuclear war ends, how does nuclear war begin? It begins by building nuclear weapons, testing them, amassing them, and preparing to use them. Any talk today of preventing a nuclear war misses the point that we are actually in a nuclear war right now. The question is not how can we prevent a nuclear war, but how will the nuclear war end? Will it end with the weapons abolishing mankind, or will mankind end this war by abolishing nuclear weapons? Just as war is a process, so is peace. Peace is a process of educating people about nuclear war, helping them organize against this war. Peace is a process of building institutions that can help people negotiate solutions to differences and conflicts without resorting to war.

=&2=&: Could there be any condition more at odds with democracy than a situation in which a few individuals can make a decision that could destroy all of mankind? The most basic democratic right, the right to live, requires the abolition of nuclear weapons. Just as war and peace are processes, so is democracy. We must think of it as “the process of democratization,” a process that depends on large numbers of people informing themselves on issues and organizing to see that their views are truly represented. Ordinary people can and must seize the democratic right to live by joining together in a worldwide peace movement. Through this peace movement we can create the political will and power to compel the nuclear powers to negotiate a treaty monitored by the United Nations, which will abolish all nuclear weapons and safeguard the true security of all peoples. Everyone has a role in this process.  

At present a call is is serving as a rallying cry for a new movement in the United States. It has been endorsed by a number of national as well as local religious, peace, and social justice organizations such as United Methodist General Board of Church and Society, Franciscans for Justice, Physicians for Social Responsibility, Union of Concerned Scientists,


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Filed Under: NEWS+OPINIONS, Op-Ed Tagged With: anti-nuke, criticism, disarmament, international, movement, nuclear weapons, Op-Ed, Protest

THE REPUBLICAN PARTY IS NOW OUR VERSION OF THE FRENCH NATIONAL FRONT

Written by GARY ZABEL Posted October 29, 2017 Filed Under: NEWS+OPINIONS, Op-Ed

Demonstration against National Front in Paris after the results of the 2014 election. Creative Commons BY-SA 4.0 by Jiel Beaumadier.

What Are We Going to Do About It?

 

My wife’s family on her mother’s side are French Jews who escaped from the Germans who occupied France in 1940. First they moved from their home in Paris to the southern part of the country, which was ruled by ...  read more

Filed Under: NEWS+OPINIONS, Op-Ed Tagged With: Democratic Party, fascism, france, government, international, Le Pen, national, National Front, Politics, Republican Party, Sanders, Trump, Vichy

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