Tom Mayer
The Rocky Mountain Peace and Justice Center’s “Peace Train” runs every Friday in the Colorado Daily.
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Peace Train: Examining the road to socialism
Incremental progress is possible and may even accelerate, which makes the achievement of socialism much more feasible.

Peace Train: Looking at the degrowth controversy
More consumption does not mean more happiness or a better life.

Peace Train: Remembering Hiroshima 77 years later
The atomic bombing of Hiroshima was clearly a violation of international law, which requires strict separation between combatants and civilians.

Peace Train: The Chinese challenge
U.S. political elites misunderstand the basic nature of the Chinese challenge, which is not primarily a military one.

Peace Train: Climate change will need more than individual responsibility
Fossil-fuel corporations are spreading greenwashing propaganda.

Peace Train: Ukraine war’s worst casualty is climate change
What is the mentality of a public willing to spend billions of dollars to defeat Russians in Ukraine, but remarkably miserly in funding programs to address the climate change crisis?

Peace Train: We must look at nominal and geopolitical levels of war
The Russian attack is a ridiculous way of countering U.S. global hegemony and has instead considerably strengthened the latter.

Peace Train: Propaganda war only prolongs conflict
The humane course of action between Russia and Ukraine is to promote a ceasefire with sustained negotiations.

Peace Train: An inconvenient history
This inconvenient history may illuminate why Putin’s war rationalizing rhetoric is able to mobilize some ghastly historical memory.

Peace Train: Misunderstanding Munich
The danger of appeasement is one lesson that can be learned from the Munich Agreement of 1938.