Nuclear Disarmament

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Following is a transcript of UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ press conference, held in New York today: Good morning, ladies and gentlemen. As you know, 2020 marks a milestone for the United Nations — our seventy-fifth anniversary. Too often, Governments and international institutions are viewed as places that talk — not…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — U.S. Rep. Jim Costa is something of an outlier in liberal-minded California — a centrist Democrat who supported the Keystone XL pipeline and was one of the last holdouts to line up behind President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul.Costa has survived tough campaigns before, but the…

The City Council is targeting the nuclear weapons industry with a pair of bills intended to end the city’s passive involvement in the production of these devastating bombs.One resolution calls on the city comptroller to divest from nuclear weapons manufacturers in public employees’ pension funds. The second would create a…

Skip to comments. Donald Trump slams John Bolton claiming former national security advisor ‘begged me for a job,’ wanted to get in to ‘World War Six’ and has written ‘a nasty and untrue book’ as Republicans wrestle over calling him as a witness dm ^ | 1/29/2020 | goodin Posted…

There was, as there usually is when it comes to coverage of North Korea, little self-reflection as to how and why the media had reported fake news for six years Its well past Halloween, but people in the Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea are rising from t…

SPOTLIGHT, WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION, MILITARISM, ENVIRONMENT, CAPITALISM, ECONOMICS, 27 Jan 2020 John Mecklin | Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists – TRANSCEND Media Service Doomsday Clock Statement – 23 Jan 2020 Editor’s note: Founded in 1945 by University of Chicago scientists who had helped develop the first atomic weapons in…

Live facial recognition will be rolled out operationally by the Met Police, but police monitoring group Netpol believes it will hamper people’s ability to exercise their rights to protest The operational use of live facial recognition (LFR) by UK law enforcers could artificially inflate tension between political activists and police…

TOKYO, Jan. 27, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- On January 26, 2020, the 38th annual peace proposal by Daisaku Ikeda, president of the Soka Gakkai International (SGI) Buddhist network, titled "Toward Our Shared Future: Constructing an Era of Human Solidarity" was released, marking the anniversary of the founding of the SGI. Climate…

A U.S. nonprofit organization moved its Doomsday Clock, designed to give the world an easy way to gauge the likelihood of manmade global catastrophe, the closest ever to midnight.On Thursday, the Chicago-based Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, which maintained Doomsday Clock since 1947, announced that it moved the Doomsday Clock…