Remembering Martin Luther King, the Radical for Peace admin, April 3, 2018August 14, 2024 The Progressive April 3, 2018: King challenged the draining of our national resources for the military, opposed the Vietnam War and other aspects of U.S. foreign policy and questioned an economic system that created enormous poverty amid great wealth. He was assassinated while organizing the Poor People’s March… Continue Reading
Power’s Prophet: Remembering Gene Sharp admin, February 1, 2018January 14, 2025 The Progressive February 1, 2018: Dr. Gene Sharp, a Harvard University-based scholar, through his through analysis of centuries of nonviolent struggle, made a convincing case on utilitarian grounds that nonviolent struggle was a more effective and successful means of resistance than violence… [Related article & Petition] Continue Reading
El-Baradei and the IAEA’s Nobel Peace Prize a Mixed Blessing admin, December 12, 2005 My reaction to the awarding this past weekend of the 2005 Nobel Peace Prize to the International Atomic Energy Agency and its director Mohammed El-Baradei was similar to my reaction to the awarding of the 2002 prize to former President Jimmy Carter: while they have pursued a number of policies contrary to the spirit of the Nobel Peace Prize, they have also done much to make the world a safer place. Continue Reading