SINCE the two recent NATO-led military strikes that accidentally killed dozens of Afghan civilians, I have been thinking a great deal about the psychic toll that killing takes on soldiers. In 2007, I was an Army lieutenant leading a group on a house-clearing mission in Baquba, Iraq, when I called in an artillery strike on [...]

As President Obama defends the success of his one-year-old $787 billion stimulus package, Amy Goodman of Democracy Now spoke to Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz, who says the stimulus was both not big enough and too focused on tax cuts. Stiglitz is the author of the new book Freefall: America, Free Markets, and the Sinking [...]

The New Haven Peace Council has announced a “Saving Afghanistan from the U.S. (and other extremists),” with Prof. Vijay Prashad, beginning at 7 p.m. , Sat. March 6, 2010, 37 Howe St., New Haven. From its intervention to destroy a progressive popular movement in Afghanistan in the 1970’s, to its supporting the Taliban, warlords, Osama [...]

Environmental (Dis)Locations: a conference with religious imagination exploring environmental justice and climate change will take place April 8-10, 2010 at the Saint Thomas More Center, 268 Park St., Yale Divinity School, 409 Prospect St., and the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies, 195 Prospect St., New Haven, Connecticut. The conference is sponsored by the [...]

“Having had the opportunity today to join the audience hearing Vice President Joe Biden’s speech outlining the Administration’s approach to managing the U.S. nuclear arsenal, strengthening nonproliferation and reducing nuclear risks, I am struck again by their strong rhetorical commitment to “take concrete steps toward a world without nuclear weapons.” … “It is time for [...]

The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Review Conference which will begin at the United Nations in May is widely considered to be a make or break point for ending the spread of nuclear weapons. On April 30-May 2, people will gather in NYC from around the world to call for Peace and Human Needs: Nuclear Disarmament Now! [...]

Promoting Enduring Peace is planning a national conference focusing on the deep influence of the military-industrial complex on the US government, economy, and culture is being planned for Fall 2010. Working titles include “America’s Five-Star Government” and “Uncloaking the Secret Empire: How the Military-Industrial Complex Affects the US and the World.” Express your interest in [...]

A generation of Americans has grown up without a single nuclear power plant being brought on line since before the near meltdown of the Three Mile Island structure in 1979. They have not been exposed to the enormous costs, risks and national security dangers associated with their operations and the large amount of radioactive wastes [...]

Zinn died at the age of 87 of a heart attack. “I wish President Obama would listen carefully to Martin Luther King,” Zinn told Amy Goodman when he appeared on Democracy Now on May 13, 2009. “He ought to think before he says ‘Missiles over Pakistan; Before he agrees to this bloated military budget; Before [...]

In an effort to raise awareness of key issues regarding the legal, scientific and political aspects of non-proliferation in the 21st century, Quinnipiac University School of Law’s International Human Rights Law Society in collaboration with the Albert Schweitzer Institute are hosting the conference, “Building Up or Breaking Down: The Direction of Nuclear Non-Proliferation,” in anticipation [...]