U.S. veterans, professors, clergy, writers and peace activists ask Catholic Archbishop John Wester to forward their appeal for emergency diplomacy to stop nuclear war to Pope Leo XIV at Hiroshima 81.
Ray McGovern discusses the immediate threat to Cuba in the context of the history of U.S. hostility to the Caribbean island stretching back to his earliest days at the C.I.A. in 1963, just months after the Cuban Missile Crisis.
James Douglass, author of JFK and the Unspeakable, recounts how Patrice Lumumba was assassinated just three days before J.F.K. took office, and where Fidel Castro was when he learned of the murder in Dallas.
Peter Kuznick delivers a talk at a Simone Weil Center symposium on John F. Kennedy’s momentous 1963 American University speech, marking the president’s transformation from Cold Warrior to peace seeker.
The road to possible nuclear Armageddon has been littered with lost opportunities for peaceful co-existence with Russia and signposted by repeated U.S. provocations, but Ukraine’s neutrality remains key to everyone’s security, writes Edward Lozansky.
Natylie Baldwin interviews Soviet and Russian specialist Geoffrey Roberts on Putin’s decision to invade Ukraine, Europe’s role, Stalin and World War II.
Kennedy’s Peace Speech, 60 years ago, highlights how Joe Biden’s approach to Russia and the Ukraine War needs a dramatic reorientation, writes Jeffrey D. Sachs.
The West’s recent approval of more military assistance for Kiev risks nuclear nightmare, fails Ukrainian expectations and rebukes the World War II history enshrined in a prominent Soviet war memorial in Berlin.
Michael Brenner explains why he will abstain from any further writing on the subjects of Ukraine and U.S. relations with Russia, China or the Solomon Islands.
