Nuclear Disarmament

Stefan Halper By Chuck Ross Daily Caller News Foundation It wasn’t long into his conversation with George Papadopoulos at a prestigious social club in London weeks before the 2016 election that FBI confidential informant Stefan Halper mentioned his links to several retired Russian spies. “I have a lot of friends…

Daniel Berrigan, inoculated against normalcy “But what of the price of peace?” asked Jesuit priest and war resister Daniel Berrigan, writing from federal prison in 1969, doing time for his part in the destruction of draft records. “I think of the good, decent, peace-loving people I have known by the…

The Senate Judiciary Committee released a declassified transcript of FBI source Stefan Halper’s conversation in September 2016 with George Papadopoulos. The transcript shows that Halper name-checked several former Russian intelligence officials who he has met throughout his storied career.  The former Cambridge professor plied Papadopoulos with questions about the Trump…

Ignoring one’s tweet can apparently not only spell the end to a teenage romance, but it can also be proof for high-profile geopolitical assertions. That is, at least, according to a high-ranking US diplomat. The recent secretive test of a Russian – presumably – anti-ballistic missile weapon has seemingly caused…

Obituaries BMJ 2020; 369 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.m1481 (Published 17 April 2020) Cite this as: BMJ 2020;369:m1481 John Henri James, known as Jimmy, was born in Lusaka (then Northern Rhodesia, now Zambia). He was the youngest son of a Dutch protestant missionary and an English Methodist minister. He was educated in Kingswood…

In December Boris Johnson promised the “deepest review of Britain’s defence, security and foreign policy since the end of the Cold War” if he won the General Election. But the Integrated Security Review has been delayed by the coronavirus crisis. Rethinking Security, a network of peace and security experts, has welcomed…

First published in The Age on April 16, 1984250,000 in arms protestMore than 250,000 Australians demonstrated for nuclear disarmament yesterday in marches that were bigger than the Vietnam moratorium protests of 1971.Front page of The Age on April 15, 1984 - "250,000 in arms protest".Credit:The Age ArchivesAbout 85,000 people converged…

Donovan, born Donovan Phillips Leitch in Scotland in 1946, was famous enough before he was 18 for the world to be on first-name terms with him. You don’t have to be a boomer to remember Mellow Yellow, although it may help if you want to remember his famous stand-off with…

Donovan, born Donovan Phillips Leitch in Scotland in 1946, was famous enough before he was 18 for the world to be on first-name terms with him. You don’t have to be a boomer to remember Mellow Yellow, although it may help if you want to remember his famous stand-off with…

1. Russell’s Chronology A short chronology of the major events in Russell’s life is as follows: (1872) Born May 18 at Ravenscroft in Trelleck, Monmouthshire, UK. (1874) Death of mother and sister. (1876) Death of father; Russell’s grandfather, Lord John Russell (the former Prime Minister), and grandmother succeed in overturning…