Joseph Gerson
Dr. Joseph Gerson is Executive Director of the Campaign for Peace, Disarmament and Common Security and Vice-President of the International Peace Bureau. His most recent book is Empire and the Bomb: How the US Uses Nuclear Weapons to Dominate the World. His previous books include The Sun Never Sets and With Hiroshima Eyes.
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Views Friday, August 11, 2017 No Fire, No Fury: Common Security Diplomacy to Resolve US-North Korean Crisis President Trump’s off the cuff and extremely dangerous and outrageous threat to devastate North Korea with “fire and fury… unlike the world has ever seen” is bringing us to the brink of the unthinkable. There is no military solution to the dangers posed by North Korea’s nuclear weapons program. We... Read more |
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Views Tuesday, July 05, 2016 Imperial NATO: Before and After Brexit In his first public response to the Brexit vote that has shaken Europe and much of the world, President Obama sought to reassure Americans and others. He urged us not to give into hysteria and stressed that NATO did not disappear with Brexit. The Trans-Atlantic alliance, he reminded the world,... Read more |
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Views Wednesday, April 06, 2016 Orwell (and the President) Come to Hiroshima How to you hide a trillion dollars or spending $66,000 a minute for thirty years building a new nuclear arsenal? Put another way, how to you hide 7,000 nuclear warheads capable of ending human life many times over or? For that matter, how does a nation whose constitution vows to reject war and... Read more |
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Views Sunday, December 06, 2015 War and Fortress America: Dangerous Answers We are staggered by the brutal murders in San Bernardino. We’re amazed and depressed that in its immediate aftermath Congressional Republicans voted against the banning of weapons sales to potential terrorists. And we worry that racist and xenophobic pressures to keep war refugees from our shores,... Read more |
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Views Friday, October 09, 2015 More than Economics: TPP, Empire and Common Security Alternatives "In fact, you may not expect to hear this from a Secretary of Defense, but in terms of our rebalance in the broadest sense, passing TPP is as important to me as another aircraft carrier." —Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter More than corporate profits have driven the now concluded negotiations for... Read more |
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Views Friday, July 31, 2015 Our 70th Anniversary Homework: Confronting the Myths and Learning the Lessons of Hiroshima and Nagasaki Seventy years ago, two nuclear weapons targeted against cities which met the criteria of having “densely packed workers’ homes,” killed more than 200,000 people in the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. In the years that have followed, many more have suffered and died from cancers,... Read more |
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Views Saturday, September 15, 2012 Reinforcing Washington's Asia-Pacific Hegemony A year ago, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton signaled a major transformation in U.S. foreign policy in an article titled “ America’s Pacific Century ,” which announced the U.S. “pivot” toward Asia, the Pacific, and the strategically important Indian Ocean. Read more |
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Views Friday, April 01, 2011 Tax Day in America: A People Without a Vision Will Perish How does it feel to know that nearly 60% of your tax dollars this year will pay for our present and future wars, not for your family’s or communities’ needs? Our nation is in trouble, and the diagnosis is as old as the Bible, which warns that “A people without a vision will perish”. Our nation has lost its way, and its people are in trouble. People continue to lose their jobs, services, and economic security, while we spend ever greater sums in the disastrous pursuit of global military supremacy. Read more |
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Views Sunday, March 07, 2010 Obama’s Nuclear Credibility Gap A month ago, writing in the New York Times about the economy and the escalating war in Afghanistan, Bob Herbert warned President Obama that he was developing a "credibility gap." Now, the advance advertising designed to help launch the president's Nuclear Posture Review and the stalled negotiations with Russia on the START 1 Follow On Treaty are leading people around the world to ask their version of "Where's the beef?" The administration's policies and actions are severely undermining its commitment to non-proliferation and its promise of working to create a Read more |
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Views Wednesday, December 02, 2009 Obama’s Afghan 'Strategy' – Another American Tragedy Shortly after President Obama’s Afghanistan War escalation speech, I was contacted by the Voice of America’s Russian Language Service. They wanted to interview me. These are the questions they asked: What do you think about Obama's new strategy for Afghanistan? Were you surprised by it? Do you think it would be possible to carry out all Obama's objectives by 2011? Would Afghanistan, you think, cease to being a failed state? Read more |