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Bush's cuts may endanger the integrity of our national defense.

Fresh offensive launched by Putin against the US and NATO is not meaningless

On April 1, 2009, President Obama and Russian President Medvedevissued a joint statement committing both states to arms control negotiations on strategic nuclear weapons. The U.S. should beginthese negotiations with matters that require immediate attention.The U.S. should allow the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty to expirein December rather than rush to negotiate a replacement on such ashort deadline.

Howie Hawkins discusses the recently formed Ukraine Solidarity Network and the challenges of building solidarity with Ukraine while opposing US imperialism.

Howie Hawkins, a retired Teamsters union warehouse worker, former US Green Party presidential candidate and ecosocialist, discusses the formation of the Ukraine Solidarity Network (US) and the challenges of building solidarity with Ukraine while opposing US imperialism.

On January 24, 2023 the symbolic Doomsday Clock has been set for 90 seconds to alarming midnight. Before that I thought it will be changed from the previous 100 seconds to 60 or even 30 seconds to that time testifying the end of the world. Because the chances of beginning a global nuclear war by January 2023 have increased radically between the two nuclear powers – the USA and Russia.

The cold shower that Russian President Vladimir Putin unleashed onthe United States at the international security conference inMunich last weekend should not have come as a surprise. After all,Putin himself and a host of other senior spokesmen have said asmuch in the past. Clearly, the post-communist honeymoon is over,dead, and buried. The United States should avoid a rhetoricalconfrontation with Moscow. Deeds, not words, are necessary to senda message to the Kremlin that the U.S. and its allies...

The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists recently moved its Doomsday Clock to just two minutes until midnight—the closest the clock has come to the destruction of the world since the United States and Soviet Union tested thermonuclear bombs in 1953. Yet how, one could reasonably ask, could the world be more dangerous than it was during the height of the Cold War, even during the Cuban Missile Crisis of October 1962?

NATO should define its overarching strategic objective in Ukraine to be that “Russia should not gain territory through nuclear coercion” and offer to negotiate on a set of strategic stability arrangements that addresses the concerns implicit in previous proposals by Russia.

The Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty is at the heart of the debate on ballistic missile defense. Whether to proceed more quickly or more slowly to deploy missile defenses, and in what way, or whether to pro- ceed at all, is determined by how the ABM Treaty is viewed. The strategic assumptions underlying the treaty, forged during the Cold War, are very much alive in the Clinton Administration. They drive the Administration's approach not only to missile defense policy, but also to arms control ...