Mar 11, 2010 | Commentaries, Movement News, Nuclear Weapons Convention
Support for nuclear disarmament has spread to the heart of the Atlantic alliance and beyond. By Alice Slater, March 9, 2010 Original article at www.fpif.org President Obama’s call for a nuclear-weapons-free world in Prague last April unleashed a great outpouring...
Mar 11, 2010 | Commentaries
by Dave Robinson Executive Director, Pax Christi USA Original article at www.paxchristiusa.org Scripture tells us: “Where there is no vision, the people perish” (Pro. 29:18). One must also say that where there is no courage, the vision perishes. In his Prague speech,...
Sep 14, 2009 | Commentaries
Original Article: Counterpunch, July 14th, 2009 By ALICE SLATER Although Barack Obama and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev pledged to work for a nuclear weapons free world this spring, they failed to take meaningful steps at their July summit to put the world on the...
Apr 14, 2009 | Commentaries, Movement News, START
Alice Slater | April 7, 2009 Editor: John Feffer Foreign Policy In Focus www.fpif.org Committing the United States and Russia “to achieving a nuclear free world,” Presidents Obama and Medvedev issued a joint statement breathtaking in its positive tone. It...
Mar 10, 2009 | Commentaries, START
Despite the end of the Cold War in 1989, nearly 20 years ago, the US-Russian relationship has deteriorated dramatically. US promises were made to Gorbachev that if Russia did not object to the admission of a reunified Germany into NATO, after the fall of the Berlin...
