Peace Train: Institutionalized madness
Like a gun pointed at a victim’s head but not fired, U.S. leaders have repeatedly used nuclear weapons to threaten opponents.
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Peace Train: Is China responsible for COVID-19?
Viruses can be dangerous. Viruses cause numerous human diseases including smallpox, rabies, influenza, yellow fever, Ebola, dengue, Zika, mumps, chickenpox, shingles and HIV/AIDS. The virus which causes the COVID-19 disease...
Peace Train: Evaluating the United States health care system
The coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19) reveals how important a health care system is for the welfare of society. Everyone is endangered if people do not get adequate health care. What does...
Peace Train: Amid coronavirus, here’s a look at five lethal epidemics the world weathered
Diverse modern societies are capable of intelligent, energetic and comprehensive action.
Peace Train: Linking climate change and militarism
If the Pentagon were a country, it would be the 47th largest emitter of greenhouse gasses.
Peace Train: Class, race and capitalist punishment
Today the United States imprisons people at a far higher rate than any other country on which reliable statistics exist. Moreover, black people are currently imprisoned at about seven times...
Peace Train: The open Christmas letter
If humanity is to survive for several more centuries, war must be abolished.
Peace Train: Erik Olin Wright
My friend Erik Olin Wright died of cancer in January of this year at the very height of his intellectual influence.
Peace Train: What is neoliberal capitalism?
Capitalism was born in 15th century Europe, and by the 20th century had penetrated most of the world.
Peace Train: The nature of racism
Racism, according to Professor Kendi, is “a marriage of racist policies and racist ideas that produces and normalizes racial inequities.”