In an open letter, signatories from around the world call on the pope to organize an emergency international summit to address questions of peace and nuclear disarmament.
A Nuclear-Sanity Appeal to Pope Leo XIV
Category: WMD
WATCH: TWTW — How Close Are We to Nuclear War?
Some NATO and Russian advisers think nuclear war is viable. Would a desperate Israel nuke Iran? Peter Kuznick, Rick Wolff, Ray McGovern. Watch the replay.
250 Years of the US & Nuclear Weapons
What would it take for humanity, let alone the US, to survive another quarter of a millennium? ask Peter Kuznick and Ivana Nikolic Hughes.
WATCH: CN LIVE! — ‘War & Deception’
Former British diplomat and intelligence officer Alastair Crooke speaks to CN Live! about war in the Middle East and the ways Western publics are deceived about it. Watch the replay.
Hedges Report: Why the US Is Losing Its War With Iran
John Mearsheimer details how the American Empire stumbled into one of its largest strategic blunders, and what it might entail for the rest of the world.
Trump Made No Case for War on Iran
The case for each U.S. war in the Middle East over the past 35 years has had progressively weaker rationale and international support. The aggression against Iran launched Saturday has almost none of either, writes Joe Lauria.
WATCH: The World This Week — Aggression on Iran
Scott Ritter joins The World This Week to discuss the U.S. and Israel’s war of aggression to overthrow the Iranian government with no credible rationale or legal authority, unleashing a conflagration that could alter history.
Vijay Prashad: Bombs That Polish the Skulls of the Dead
With New START now expired, the United States’ withdrawal from arms control treaties and its embrace of nuclear “warfighting” doctrines are raising the risk of catastrophic conflict between nuclear powers.
Red Lines & AI Warfare
It is yet to be seen if Australia’s policy on weaponising AI will enshrine the moral red line of delegating life and death decisions to machines, writes Matilda Byrne.
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