Militarism

A Modest Proposal on Behalf of Mother Earth: Bake Sales for Bombers Until the Pentagon Cleans Up its Messes

From the Editor – a modest proposal in honor of this week’s 50th International Mother Earth Day, as we shelter-in-place. First, we kick COVID-19 of course, if Trump gets out of they way – otherwise I suppose we lance that gruesome boil at the ballot box in November – but the moment we have that under…

August 2, 1931: Albert Einstein Urged Scientists to Refuse to Cooperate with Preparations for War

On August 2, 1931, the Associated Press reported that Albert Einstein appealed to “the scientists of the world to refuse to cooperate in research for the creation of new instruments of war,” in a letter read to an international conference in Lyons, France of opponents of war. Those who think that the danger of war…