Nuclear Disarmament

Do not demonise North Korea. Demons do not negotiate. If there are no negotiations, there will be war. The words of Chung-in Moon to journalists who gathered for the Korea Press Foundation journalism conference in Seoul, last October, as diplomatic efforts w…

At the request of Russia and China, a Thursday Security Council session was held on the Trump regimes development of short-and-intermediate-range missiles prohibited by the landmark 1987 INF Treaty. The key pillar of arms control (and earlier ones) are gone …

HIROSHIMA – The Hiroshima Round Table held its seventh annual meeting last Wednesday and Thursday. For the first time, in recognition of the uniquely dangerous international security environment since the dawn of the atomic age in this beautiful city, the Rou…

NEW YORK – U.N. Secretary General Antonio Guterres on Friday urged Japan and South Korea to mend relations after Seoul scrapped a military intelligence-sharing pact with Tokyo amid disputes over trade and wartime issues. Speaking to Japanese media organizati…

On 25 August 2019, which would have been Leonard Bernsteins 101st birthday, the busy centenary year filled with performances, exhibitions, publications, and events comes to a close. Much of Bernsteins status as a world maestro tends to be discussed in terms o…

Can anti-nuclear activists stop the Doomsday Clock?

Earlier this month, Secretary of Defense Mark Esper said he favored placing conventional intermediate-range missiles in Asia following the demise of the INF treaty. While Secretary Esper did not indicate where the missiles might be deployed, many security exp…

Cathy Crowes book A Knapsack Full of Dreams: Memoirs of a Street Nurse comes out of decades of witnessing and challenging a growing blight of destitution and poverty in Toronto that has developed with the advance of the neoliberal agenda. In writing this revi…

Moscow is still open for dialogue on intermediate-range and shorter-range missiles despite the United States' withdrawal from the Intermediate Nuclear Forces Treaty, Russian senior officials said on Sunday. In a program of Rossiya-24 TV channel, Russian Defe…

Priyanka Chopra attends Beautycon Festival Los Angeles 2019. PHOTO: GETTY Earlier this week, Ayesha Malik called out Priyanka Chopra at Beautycon over the latters hypocrisy in styling herself as a champion of humanitarian causes while simultaneously sending…