Kevin Martin
Kevin Martin is President of Peace Action and Peace Action Education Fund, the country’s largest peace and disarmament organization with approximately 200,000 supporters nationwide.
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Views Thursday, April 09, 2020 Ventilators Not Bombs, Humanitarian Aid Not Sanctions, Cooperation Not Regime Change US Navy warships are currently surging to the Caribbean to menace Venezuela , when the government cannot surge desperately needed ventilators to New York City, New Orleans and Detroit. This should surprise no one, as the US has long prioritized war and preparations for war over public health, but... Read more |
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Views Wednesday, April 01, 2020 US Response to Coronavirus in North Korea Can Save Lives and Lead to Peace As the coronavirus has now claimed 23,820 lives worldwide, there are growing concerns about the situation in North Korea. Although North Korea has not officially reported any cases of COVID-19, global health experts believe it has already spread there as the government is requesting test kits,... Read more |
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Views Tuesday, March 17, 2020 Social Distancing? Peace and Social Justice Demand More Coming Together, Not More Distancing "Social distancing" (or maybe more properly “appropriate physical spacing”) is something people everywhere need to practice in the near term to get through the Covid-19 crisis. And it likely won't be the last time, unfortunately, that a pandemic threatens us. But in a broader sense, isn't “social... Read more |
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Views Sunday, April 07, 2019 President Moon's Unenviable Task When President Moon Jae-in of South Korea meets with President Donald Trump at the White House this week, he may find himself fighting the urge to pour cold water all over Trump, because that’s what Trump did to the Korea peace process when he met with Kim Jong Un in Hanoi. Read more |
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Views Saturday, February 09, 2019 Building on Progress in 2018, Second Trump-Kim Summit Is Timely The announcement of a second summit meeting between Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un, set for February 27-28 in Vietnam, comes after a year of astonishing steps toward reconciliation between South and North Korea led steadfastly by South Korean President Moon Jae-in. This second summit offers hope for... Read more |
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Views Friday, September 21, 2018 For This Year’s International Day of Peace, Korea Takes the Lead Today is the International Day of Peace, an unfortunately lightly observed day, especially in the perpetually-at-war United States. However, Campaign Nonviolence, spurred by the group Pace e Bene, is helping coordinate various peace actions in the U.S. and worldwide. There is precious little peace... Read more |
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Views Wednesday, September 12, 2018 U.S. Support for the Bombing of Yemen to Continue, for Now On September 12, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo officially certified Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates “...are undertaking demonstrable actions to reduce the risk of harm to civilians and civilian infrastructure resulting from military operations of these governments.” This is required to... Read more |
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Views Thursday, June 14, 2018 Everybody, Especially Congressional Democrats, Take a Deep Breath and Follow the President's Lead (President Moon's, Not Trump's) So it turns out U.S. President Donald Trump is inept at international diplomacy. Who knew? Well, pretty much everybody knew, or at least suspected. But he’s not always wrong about everything (more on that in a bit). The ridiculous video, overblown self-aggrandizement, off-the-cuff declarations of... Read more |
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Views Wednesday, April 25, 2018 Diplomacy, Hope, and Inspiration in Korea History will be made this week with the summit meeting between North Korean leader Kim Jong-un and South Korean President Moon Jae-in. With a second summit between Kim and President Donald Trump looming in four to six weeks or so, it's tempting to look past this first summit, but that would be a... Read more |
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Views Wednesday, February 07, 2018 Trump’s Military Madness Parade Actually Makes Sense (But Must Be Stopped!) President Donald Trump’s edict for the Pentagon to hold a military parade in Washington actually makes sense in a sick way. Shouldn’t we taxpayers get to see the missiles, warheads, tanks, drones, guns and other warfare hardware that over half of federal discretionary spending goes toward every... Read more |