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Global CooperationThe UN is 65 and Going Strong
Today we recognize the 65th anniversary of the founding of the United Nations. The world has changed dramatically since October 24th, 1945...
A Lesson Not Yet Learned In Pakistan
As posted in the Huffington Post: My friends at CIVIC just released a new report with findings on the conflicts in northwest...
New START ratification is delayed… but hopefully not for long.
Last week Senator Lugar got on C-SPAN and stated that "for the moment, this [New START treaty] is not a crucial situation,"...
The Lesson of Iraq
As published in the Huffington Post President Obama, speaking from the Oval Office, told the nation (and the world) that it is...
Global JusticeFrom Suffrage to CEDAW – Celebrate Women’s Equality Day
Happy Birthday 19th Amendment! Believe it or not, it's only been 90 years since the 19th Amendment guaranteeing women the right to...
Global CooperationCan One Unanimous UN Resolution Pave The Way for CEDAW Ratification?
Established in the United Nations Charter, way back in that post-war year of 1946, the Division for the Advancement of Women firmly...
Global CooperationNew START and Senate Processes: A Critique of Last Resort?
Stephen Rademaker's recent piece in the Washington Post is the latest in a series of offensives against the New START treaty with...
The Unified Security Budget: Getting the Most Bang for Our National Security Buck
As published in the Huffington Post Here's something you don't hear every day--a Secretary of Defense talking about reducing military spending. Yet...
Peace & DisarmamentLessons from Hiroshima
August 6th marks the 65th anniversary of Hiroshima. The atomic bomb, dropped from an American B-29 war plane on the morning of...
Global JusticeThomas Jefferson, Arms Control, and the Horrors of War
By: Jeff Brooks In 1779, Thomas Jefferson wrote a letter to Patrick Henry to discuss the proper treatment of the British and...
New START vs. the Tea Party: What’s the Greatest Threat?
Written by Don Kraus for the Huffington Post What's more dangerous: the thousands of nukes that will still target U.S. and Russian...