Science for Peace
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Nerdy organization, based in Toronto, engaged in education and research on such existential threats as nuclear weapons, militarism and climate change. https://www.scienceforpeace.org
China's opaqueness regarding its capacity to intercept ballistic missiles threatens to spur another expensive and dangerous arms race between the two powers. #Defense #China thebulletin.org/2025/12/chin...
China's strategic missile defense exacerbates arms race instability
China’s first publicly acknowledged missile defense system capable of midcourse interception of long-range missiles, the HQ-29, is raising questions about Chinese intentions and threatening to intensi...
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December 22, 2025 at 8:39 PM
China's opaqueness regarding its capacity to intercept ballistic missiles threatens to spur another expensive and dangerous arms race between the two powers. #Defense #China thebulletin.org/2025/12/chin...
It probably comes as no surprise that Trump's cabinet has the lowest educational level of any similar decision-making body of its major global competitors. That, along with unquestioned cabinet obedience to the leader, is a recipe for poor policy. static1.squarespace.com/static/5d59c...
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December 19, 2025 at 3:52 PM
It probably comes as no surprise that Trump's cabinet has the lowest educational level of any similar decision-making body of its major global competitors. That, along with unquestioned cabinet obedience to the leader, is a recipe for poor policy. static1.squarespace.com/static/5d59c...
Trump's aggressive foreign policies threaten to lead to World War III, according to an eminent Yale historian. The US naval build-up in the Caribbean is unprecedented; its reasons for ousting #MaduroPresidente of #Venezuela are shifting with the day. www.commondreams.org/news/trump-w...
Yale Historian Warns Trump Is Putting US on Path to World War III | Common Dreams
Yale historian Greg Grandin warns that Trump's foreign policy could lead to a new world war, as US seeks to control global spheres of influence.
www.commondreams.org
December 17, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Trump's aggressive foreign policies threaten to lead to World War III, according to an eminent Yale historian. The US naval build-up in the Caribbean is unprecedented; its reasons for ousting #MaduroPresidente of #Venezuela are shifting with the day. www.commondreams.org/news/trump-w...
Are the #conservatives in the West falling into the same error as in the 1930s: thinking they can control the fascists they use in the fight against (in today's case) the globalist social-democratic left? Authoritarian fascists cannot be controlled. #dictatorship
December 15, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Are the #conservatives in the West falling into the same error as in the 1930s: thinking they can control the fascists they use in the fight against (in today's case) the globalist social-democratic left? Authoritarian fascists cannot be controlled. #dictatorship
#Canada is raising a citizens' army of 300,000. Good to recognize the threat from Trump, but the force should be nonviolent, not armed. Mammoth destruction in the event of an invasion! charlieangus.substack.com/p/canada-mob...
Canada Mobilizes a People's Army
The government has finally laid its cards on the table.
charlieangus.substack.com
December 12, 2025 at 9:29 PM
#Canada is raising a citizens' army of 300,000. Good to recognize the threat from Trump, but the force should be nonviolent, not armed. Mammoth destruction in the event of an invasion! charlieangus.substack.com/p/canada-mob...
Can democracy, poverty-alleviation and sustainability move ahead in a world where the richest 0.001%
own 3 times more wealth than the poorest half of humanity combined? (World Inequality Report, 2025) #inequality #Poverty #Democracy
own 3 times more wealth than the poorest half of humanity combined? (World Inequality Report, 2025) #inequality #Poverty #Democracy
December 10, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Can democracy, poverty-alleviation and sustainability move ahead in a world where the richest 0.001%
own 3 times more wealth than the poorest half of humanity combined? (World Inequality Report, 2025) #inequality #Poverty #Democracy
own 3 times more wealth than the poorest half of humanity combined? (World Inequality Report, 2025) #inequality #Poverty #Democracy
The US 2025 #NationalSecurity Strategy portends disaster. The NSS proclaims the intention of the US gov't to refuse to accommodate the economic, ecological and power realities of the 21st C to reimpose the world of 1991- though without any principle. nilsgilman.substack.com/p/an-open-le...
An Open Letter to the Trump NatSec Team
The United States is still the most powerful nation on earth, but the gravest challenges we face go beyond those that even the most powerful state can address on its own.
nilsgilman.substack.com
December 10, 2025 at 6:00 PM
The US 2025 #NationalSecurity Strategy portends disaster. The NSS proclaims the intention of the US gov't to refuse to accommodate the economic, ecological and power realities of the 21st C to reimpose the world of 1991- though without any principle. nilsgilman.substack.com/p/an-open-le...
Trump's plans to reduce #Canada to a vassal-state, akin to Belarus, have not faltered. Foreign, as domestic, policy is all about domination, excepting a cooperative ("rebalanced") relationship with Russia. #NationalSecurity charlieangus.substack.com/p/the-gangst...
The Gangster Regime Revealed
Any pundit, politician or commentator who thought that Canada could make its way through this so-called rough patch in U.S.-Canadian relations and come out the other end needs to think again.
charlieangus.substack.com
December 8, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Trump's plans to reduce #Canada to a vassal-state, akin to Belarus, have not faltered. Foreign, as domestic, policy is all about domination, excepting a cooperative ("rebalanced") relationship with Russia. #NationalSecurity charlieangus.substack.com/p/the-gangst...
Dangerous times as Trump's foreign policy becomes completely incoherent: pardoning a former Honduran president/drug lord while threatening the Venezuelan president with military overthrow for drug pedaling. #Venezuela #DrugMoneyPolitics theintercept.com/2025/12/01/h...
Trump Frees Ex-President of Honduras, Right-Wing "Narco-Dictator" Convicted of Drug Trafficking
The pardon of Juan Orlando Hernández, who served less than two years of a 45-year sentence for drug trafficking, comes as Trump threatens war on Venezuela over “narcoterrorism.”
theintercept.com
December 4, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Dangerous times as Trump's foreign policy becomes completely incoherent: pardoning a former Honduran president/drug lord while threatening the Venezuelan president with military overthrow for drug pedaling. #Venezuela #DrugMoneyPolitics theintercept.com/2025/12/01/h...
extreme heat (generated by global warming) + inequality=untold (ie unrecorded) deaths, even in the USA. Yet Trump: withdrew US from Paris Agreement, cancelled incentives for clean energy, and withdrew fed funds for clean energy projects. #ClimateEmergency www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Americans are dying from extreme heat. Autopsy reports don’t show the full story
Official reports are likely to overlook heat’s role in a death. As US temperatures rise, experts say the true toll needs to be counted
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December 4, 2025 at 4:07 PM
extreme heat (generated by global warming) + inequality=untold (ie unrecorded) deaths, even in the USA. Yet Trump: withdrew US from Paris Agreement, cancelled incentives for clean energy, and withdrew fed funds for clean energy projects. #ClimateEmergency www.theguardian.com/environment/...
"What Gates is putting forward aren’t legitimate arguments that can be made in good faith. They are shopworn fossil fuel industry talking points. Being found parroting them is every bit as embarrassing as being caught with your pants down." #ClimateCrisis thebulletin.org/2025/10/you-...
Michael Mann to Bill Gates: You can’t reboot the planet if you crash it
What Gates is putting forward aren’t legitimate arguments that can be made in good faith. They are shopworn fossil fuel industry talking points.
thebulletin.org
November 30, 2025 at 7:30 PM
"What Gates is putting forward aren’t legitimate arguments that can be made in good faith. They are shopworn fossil fuel industry talking points. Being found parroting them is every bit as embarrassing as being caught with your pants down." #ClimateCrisis thebulletin.org/2025/10/you-...
What do you do when increasing % of the population gets its information from algorithm-driven social media? Disaster relief has been undermined by widespread #misinformation and #disinformation . What happens in the case of nuclear war? thebulletin.org/2025/11/post...
Post-truth disasters: We're not ready for nuclear war on social media
Risks of a serious crisis are rising. But for disaster response, the information environment has never been worse.
thebulletin.org
November 27, 2025 at 9:09 PM
What do you do when increasing % of the population gets its information from algorithm-driven social media? Disaster relief has been undermined by widespread #misinformation and #disinformation . What happens in the case of nuclear war? thebulletin.org/2025/11/post...
What can be done to reinforce the international norm against nuclear-weapons testing? With Trump's recent talk of the US resuming testing, this issue is again real - incredible as that may be. #Peace #Trump www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHWs...
2025 Nuclear Testing Webinar
YouTube video by Arms Control Association
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November 24, 2025 at 6:28 PM
What can be done to reinforce the international norm against nuclear-weapons testing? With Trump's recent talk of the US resuming testing, this issue is again real - incredible as that may be. #Peace #Trump www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHWs...
“ #COP30 provides a stark reminder that the answers to the #ClimateCrisis do not lie inside the climate talks—they lie with the people and movements leading the way toward a just, equitable, fossil-free future. We must keep #fossilfuel in the ground.” www.commondreams.org/news/cop30-e...
Climate Talks End With 'Empty Deal' That Fails on Forests, Finance, and Fossil Fuels | Common Dreams
"COP30 provides a stark reminder that the answers to the climate crisis do not lie inside the climate talks—they lie with the people and movements leading the way toward a just, equitable, fossil-fre...
www.commondreams.org
November 24, 2025 at 5:21 PM
“ #COP30 provides a stark reminder that the answers to the #ClimateCrisis do not lie inside the climate talks—they lie with the people and movements leading the way toward a just, equitable, fossil-free future. We must keep #fossilfuel in the ground.” www.commondreams.org/news/cop30-e...
Civil #RESISTANCE has a track record in overturning dictatorships. But how about nonviolent defence against aggressors? This interview explores historical cases and discusses issues of viability and practicability. Can it work? #Peace #Canada projectsavetheworld.substack.com/p/episode-72...
Episode 727 If You Need Nonviolent Defence
Isaiah Ritzmann and Richard Sandbrook are co-chairing a new organization, the Canadian Coalition for Nonviolent Defence, which is preparing people for Trump's possible takeover of Canada.
projectsavetheworld.substack.com
November 19, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Civil #RESISTANCE has a track record in overturning dictatorships. But how about nonviolent defence against aggressors? This interview explores historical cases and discusses issues of viability and practicability. Can it work? #Peace #Canada projectsavetheworld.substack.com/p/episode-72...
"If we want a peaceful world, we must prioritize the things that create it. Food on tables, roofs over heads, fair and inclusive societies, good relations with neighbors, schools, healthy people, a healthy planet." Invest in people, not arms #Peace chrishouston.ca/stories-of-p...
If we want peace, we must fund what builds it
Armed conflict is rising, and Canada plans to increase military spending. Peace advocates say that social programs, not militarization, make a safer world. Even military generals in Canada and the Uni...
chrishouston.ca
November 18, 2025 at 4:33 PM
"If we want a peaceful world, we must prioritize the things that create it. Food on tables, roofs over heads, fair and inclusive societies, good relations with neighbors, schools, healthy people, a healthy planet." Invest in people, not arms #Peace chrishouston.ca/stories-of-p...
The Security Council approves an International Stabilization Force and US-headed Peace Board for #Gaza reconstruction. No mention of 2-state solution or who constitutes the ISF. Top-down, ignoring the wishes of Gazans, & unlikely to succeed. #Palestine passblue.com/2025/11/17/t...
The UN Security Council Accepts US Plan for Gaza With Wariness - PassBlue
The UN Security Council Accepts US Plan for Gaza With Wariness - PassBlue
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November 18, 2025 at 4:01 PM
The Security Council approves an International Stabilization Force and US-headed Peace Board for #Gaza reconstruction. No mention of 2-state solution or who constitutes the ISF. Top-down, ignoring the wishes of Gazans, & unlikely to succeed. #Palestine passblue.com/2025/11/17/t...
"Fossil Fuel companies are destroying our planet, and the people are paying the price." True, but the political obstacle is deeper: the carbon economy, its financiers, shareholders and well-paid employees. #COP #ClimateCrisis www.commondreams.org/news/cop30-d...
50,000 March in Brazil to Celebrate Death of Fossil Fuel Industry at COP30 | Common Dreams
"It is time to put these old fuels where they belong—in the ground of history.”
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November 17, 2025 at 3:55 PM
"Fossil Fuel companies are destroying our planet, and the people are paying the price." True, but the political obstacle is deeper: the carbon economy, its financiers, shareholders and well-paid employees. #COP #ClimateCrisis www.commondreams.org/news/cop30-d...
Why the official lack of interest in climate change at a time of obvious #ClimateCrisis ? Monbiot identifies the epistemic obstacle: climate denialists with vested interests in #fossilfuel own the media and the algorithms - and thus the message. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Dark forces are preventing us fighting the climate crisis – by taking knowledge hostage | George Monbiot
The fundamental problem is this: that most of the means of communication are owned or influenced by the very rich, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
www.theguardian.com
November 14, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Why the official lack of interest in climate change at a time of obvious #ClimateCrisis ? Monbiot identifies the epistemic obstacle: climate denialists with vested interests in #fossilfuel own the media and the algorithms - and thus the message. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
What is wrong with the US seeking regime change in #Venezuela via military action? Everything. #defensenews #ForeignPolicy www.scienceforpeace.org/post/greasin...
Greasing the Skid for War: Trump and the Coming War on Venezuela
Arnd JurgensenThe White House from Washington, DC, Public domain, via Wikimedia CommonsMr. Trumps second arrival in the White House signifies a drastic transition in the nature of U.S. politics and in...
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November 13, 2025 at 8:25 PM
What is wrong with the US seeking regime change in #Venezuela via military action? Everything. #defensenews #ForeignPolicy www.scienceforpeace.org/post/greasin...
Is Canada committing itself to $70 billion for a US-backed Golden Dome nuclear #missile defence that cannot work? Is that how much a toady we have become? #defenseagreement sanepi.org/golden-dome-...
Golden Dome and the Myth of Invulnerability – SANE Policy Institute
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November 5, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Is Canada committing itself to $70 billion for a US-backed Golden Dome nuclear #missile defence that cannot work? Is that how much a toady we have become? #defenseagreement sanepi.org/golden-dome-...
How to explain the irrationality of politicians giving up the struggle to reduce GHG emissions just when the effects and costs of #ClimateCrisis are ever-more apparent? What happened to leadership? #fossilfuel www.economist.com/by-invitatio...
The greenlash is built on lazy thinking, writes a climate activist
Luisa Neubauer argues that rolling back climate policies is economic suicide masquerading as pragmatism
www.economist.com
November 3, 2025 at 4:40 PM
How to explain the irrationality of politicians giving up the struggle to reduce GHG emissions just when the effects and costs of #ClimateCrisis are ever-more apparent? What happened to leadership? #fossilfuel www.economist.com/by-invitatio...
Michael Mann offers a sadly true critique of Gates' latest proposal not to worry about the #ClimateCrisis because we can patch it up with #GeoEngineering . thebulletin.org/2025/10/you-...
Michael Mann to Bill Gates: You can’t reboot the planet if you crash it
What Gates is putting forward aren’t legitimate arguments that can be made in good faith. They are shopworn fossil fuel industry talking points.
thebulletin.org
November 3, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Michael Mann offers a sadly true critique of Gates' latest proposal not to worry about the #ClimateCrisis because we can patch it up with #GeoEngineering . thebulletin.org/2025/10/you-...
Trump's remarks about restarting nuclear weapons testing is dangerous not only in provoking other nuclear powers to respond, but also in encouraging nuclear proliferation. Can #Germany, #Poland , Japan and #SouthKorea depend on an erratic USA? #Security foreignpolicy.com/2025/03/14/t...
An Unreliable America Means More Countries Want the Bomb
Without credible U.S. security guarantees, nuclear proliferation is likely to increase rapidly across Europe and Asia.
foreignpolicy.com
November 2, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Trump's remarks about restarting nuclear weapons testing is dangerous not only in provoking other nuclear powers to respond, but also in encouraging nuclear proliferation. Can #Germany, #Poland , Japan and #SouthKorea depend on an erratic USA? #Security foreignpolicy.com/2025/03/14/t...
Trump vaguely calls, after a 30-year moratorium, for a resumption of nuclear testing. Expert response: "It is really an extraordinarily dangerous time of history." #NationalSecurity www.commondreams.org/news/extreme...
'Extremely Dangerous for Humanity': Trump Orders Resumption of US Nuclear Weapons Testing | Common Dreams
"By foolishly announcing his intention resume nuclear testing," said one expert, "Trump will trigger strong public opposition in Nevada, from all U.S. allies, and it could trigger a chain reaction."
www.commondreams.org
October 30, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Trump vaguely calls, after a 30-year moratorium, for a resumption of nuclear testing. Expert response: "It is really an extraordinarily dangerous time of history." #NationalSecurity www.commondreams.org/news/extreme...