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Our common global humanity is on the line.
December 21, 2018
(Photo credit: Ceasefire.ca) We increasingly confront a world where greed, coercion and bribery trumps human rights and our common global humanity. Our Foreign Minister has talked passionately about the USA abandonment of its leadership role in championing the “rules based international order”. Yet the real threat is not American isolationism, but the Trump administration’s relentless […]
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The real problem is excessive military spending by the USA
July 16, 2018
The usually hawkish Globe and Mail has a commentary by columnist Lawrence Martin that gets it right this time — rather than NATO members being guilty of spending too little on defence, the real problem is the obscene level of overspending by the USA. Martin notes first that, even without taking into account the American […]
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Singapore Summit: boom or bust? Four views
June 18, 2018
The dust has finally settled a little on the Singapore Summit of 12 June 2018. Arms control experts are not divided on the “thin gruel” that constitutes the only document emerging from the historic meeting between President Trump and North Korean President Kim Jong-un. But they certainly don’t all see eye to eye on the […]
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Paul Rogers: Dangerous Signals in Trump’s State of the Union Address
February 6, 2018
In this trenchant analysis, Professor Paul Rogers, who has been cataloguing the manifest failures of the “war on terror” since its inception, demonstrates how President Trump appears determined to continue this folly. [George W. Bush] crafted not a new American century leading to a more peaceful world, but a wasteland: sixteen years of war, hundreds of […]
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