#Disinformation, such as that now promoting secession in Alberta and discrediting Canada, is a major threat. How to counter it? Digital nonviolence refuses outrage, instead building trust slowly, and treating truth as a shared responsibility. wagingnonviolence.org/cnv/podcast/...

Can we make the abolition of #war a realistic goal, and if so, how? We need a strategy for escaping the prospect of mutual suicide should nuclear deterrence fail. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipL5...

Blumenfeld Junior Fellowships now open for applications at Science for Peace in Toronto. Preference to graduating UG students and graduate students in the greater Toronto region. Focus: 1) #nuclearweapons, 2) #nonviolentresistance. Refer to scienceforpeace.org for details

The degree of community-based cooperation and nonviolent #ResistanceUnited in US cities, especially in reaction to ICE ("King Trump's private army": Bruce Springsteen) is remarkable, inspiring. #NoKings inthesetimes.com/magazine/the...

“When I was a kid in the 1980s, we were at three minutes to metaphorical midnight and my dad wouldn’t even let me go to the movies. Now, [Bulletin of Atomic Scientists] have pushed it even closer. We’ve tick-tocked ourselves to 85 seconds to midnight. " We've had enough.

Can we make the abolition of war a realistic goal? Register for this panel (Zoom or in-person) for reflections on this key issue, at scienceforpeace.org under events.

Canada's new $6.6 billion Defence Industrial Strategy aims to build Canada's defence industries and ensure sovereign control of communications, digital services and weapons. Ok, but still the unanswered question: how to withstand a US intervention?

The New START agreement between the US and Russia, in force since 2011, caps the number of American and Russian long-range missiles and bombers. It is the last treaty stabilizing the nuclear relationship between the superpowers. Now Trump is willing to see it expire.

2 take-aways from the inspiring NV resistance in Minnesota: -Civic engagement was strong before the invasion: numerous non-profits, unions and faith communities -heavy repression backfires, with anger mobilizing more protestors. Lessons for future NV struggles.

Speaking of Trump #imperialism , I'd say that Canada's province of #Alberta is now at risk - thanks to the dupes who want to organize an independence referendum in a land-locked province reliant on dirty oil exports in a time of peaking global oil demand. thetyee.ca/Opinion/2026...

Thanks to Russian strikes near Ukrainian nuclear power stations, T.S Elliot's famous line that the world ends with a whimper, not a bang. may need to be revised. #UkraineWar #nuclear www.rsn.org/001/putin-ha...

With the whiff of imperialism in the air, not to mention rising authoritarianism, it is time to reassess nonviolent #defence /resistance. Yes, it can work, under certain conditions. @WagingNonviolence sandbroo.faculty.politics.utoronto.ca/rethinking-n...

Here's a brilliant idea: European countries respond to Trump's 10% tariff on them for supporting Greenland - with a tax on the oligarchs who back Trump and stand to benefit from US control of Greenland. #Greenland @tariffs www.commondreams.org/news/gabriel...

"Nous envahir est aise', nous occuper est l'enfer." "To invade us [Canada] is easy, to occupy us is hell "- a warning from Que'bec to would-be invaders. Perhaps also an apt slogan for nonviolent defence. #Imperialism #Canada www.ledevoir.com/opinion/chro...

It's often said that #GenZ is absent from protests. Not true! In 2025, they were the main participants in many protests - and suffered. wagingnonviolence.org/2026/01/how-... Protests without leaders cannot be coopted, but lack long-term strategies. Training, organization needed?

"Nations that stomp around the globe like King Kong infect themselves with a fatal virus." (Chris Hedges) True. What are Canada's options, if attacked? Pre-empt by adopting vassal statehood, #Military defeat, or organized nonviolent resistance. The latter is best bet. #Canada

Donrow Doctrine=fear, force and plunder by the US in the western hemisphere - and in the absence of any moral or legal justification. #Imperialism #VenezuelaCrisis

Alternative futures in #Venezuela : 1 Continuity of misery, crime, drug pedaling, though the US grabs oil revenues. 2 Insurrection, chaos, leading the US into occupation and quagmire. #Imperialism isn't easy.

What do we do when political actors can create their own history and manufacture the “documents” to back it up? No matter how "authentic" looking the AI-fakes, we will have ways to verify facts. That's the good news. #AI #disinfo thebulletin.org/premium/2025...

What if the US intervenes in Alberta, following a referendum on independence? We can't rely on our armed forces; they are too integrated with the US military. Our main option in nonviolent defence - if we get prepared. #Canada #nonviolence projectsavetheworld.substack.com/p/episode-72...

Nuclear weapons modernization and proliferation+ climate change + disruptive technologies = 89 seconds to midnight. What to do? #nuclearwar thebulletin.org/premium/2025...

China's opaqueness regarding its capacity to intercept ballistic missiles threatens to spur another expensive and dangerous arms race between the two powers. #Defense #China thebulletin.org/2025/12/chin...

It probably comes as no surprise that Trump's cabinet has the lowest educational level of any similar decision-making body of its major global competitors. That, along with unquestioned cabinet obedience to the leader, is a recipe for poor policy. static1.squarespace.com/static/5d59c...

Trump's aggressive foreign policies threaten to lead to World War III, according to an eminent Yale historian. The US naval build-up in the Caribbean is unprecedented; its reasons for ousting #MaduroPresidente of #Venezuela are shifting with the day. www.commondreams.org/news/trump-w...

Are the #conservatives in the West falling into the same error as in the 1930s: thinking they can control the fascists they use in the fight against (in today's case) the globalist social-democratic left? Authoritarian fascists cannot be controlled. #dictatorship

#Canada is raising a citizens' army of 300,000. Good to recognize the threat from Trump, but the force should be nonviolent, not armed. Mammoth destruction in the event of an invasion! charlieangus.substack.com/p/canada-mob...

Can democracy, poverty-alleviation and sustainability move ahead in a world where the richest 0.001% own 3 times more wealth than the poorest half of humanity combined? (World Inequality Report, 2025) #inequality #Poverty #Democracy

The US 2025 #NationalSecurity Strategy portends disaster. The NSS proclaims the intention of the US gov't to refuse to accommodate the economic, ecological and power realities of the 21st C to reimpose the world of 1991- though without any principle. nilsgilman.substack.com/p/an-open-le...

Trump's plans to reduce #Canada to a vassal-state, akin to Belarus, have not faltered. Foreign, as domestic, policy is all about domination, excepting a cooperative ("rebalanced") relationship with Russia. #NationalSecurity charlieangus.substack.com/p/the-gangst...

Dangerous times as Trump's foreign policy becomes completely incoherent: pardoning a former Honduran president/drug lord while threatening the Venezuelan president with military overthrow for drug pedaling. #Venezuela #DrugMoneyPolitics theintercept.com/2025/12/01/h...

extreme heat (generated by global warming) + inequality=untold (ie unrecorded) deaths, even in the USA. Yet Trump: withdrew US from Paris Agreement, cancelled incentives for clean energy, and withdrew fed funds for clean energy projects. #ClimateEmergency www.theguardian.com/environment/...

"What Gates is putting forward aren’t legitimate arguments that can be made in good faith. They are shopworn fossil fuel industry talking points. Being found parroting them is every bit as embarrassing as being caught with your pants down." #ClimateCrisis thebulletin.org/2025/10/you-...

What do you do when increasing % of the population gets its information from algorithm-driven social media? Disaster relief has been undermined by widespread #misinformation and #disinformation . What happens in the case of nuclear war? thebulletin.org/2025/11/post...

What can be done to reinforce the international norm against nuclear-weapons testing? With Trump's recent talk of the US resuming testing, this issue is again real - incredible as that may be. #Peace #Trump www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHWs...

“ #COP30 provides a stark reminder that the answers to the #ClimateCrisis do not lie inside the climate talks—they lie with the people and movements leading the way toward a just, equitable, fossil-free future. We must keep #fossilfuel in the ground.” www.commondreams.org/news/cop30-e...

Civil #RESISTANCE has a track record in overturning dictatorships. But how about nonviolent defence against aggressors? This interview explores historical cases and discusses issues of viability and practicability. Can it work? #Peace #Canada projectsavetheworld.substack.com/p/episode-72...

"If we want a peaceful world, we must prioritize the things that create it. Food on tables, roofs over heads, fair and inclusive societies, good relations with neighbors, schools, healthy people, a healthy planet." Invest in people, not arms #Peace chrishouston.ca/stories-of-p...

The Security Council approves an International Stabilization Force and US-headed Peace Board for #Gaza reconstruction. No mention of 2-state solution or who constitutes the ISF. Top-down, ignoring the wishes of Gazans, & unlikely to succeed. #Palestine passblue.com/2025/11/17/t...

"Fossil Fuel companies are destroying our planet, and the people are paying the price." True, but the political obstacle is deeper: the carbon economy, its financiers, shareholders and well-paid employees. #COP #ClimateCrisis www.commondreams.org/news/cop30-d...

Why the official lack of interest in climate change at a time of obvious #ClimateCrisis ? Monbiot identifies the epistemic obstacle: climate denialists with vested interests in #fossilfuel own the media and the algorithms - and thus the message. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

What is wrong with the US seeking regime change in #Venezuela via military action? Everything. #defensenews #ForeignPolicy www.scienceforpeace.org/post/greasin...

Is Canada committing itself to $70 billion for a US-backed Golden Dome nuclear #missile defence that cannot work? Is that how much a toady we have become? #defenseagreement sanepi.org/golden-dome-...

How to explain the irrationality of politicians giving up the struggle to reduce GHG emissions just when the effects and costs of #ClimateCrisis are ever-more apparent? What happened to leadership? #fossilfuel www.economist.com/by-invitatio...

Michael Mann offers a sadly true critique of Gates' latest proposal not to worry about the #ClimateCrisis because we can patch it up with #GeoEngineering . thebulletin.org/2025/10/you-...

Trump's remarks about restarting nuclear weapons testing is dangerous not only in provoking other nuclear powers to respond, but also in encouraging nuclear proliferation. Can #Germany, #Poland , Japan and #SouthKorea depend on an erratic USA? #Security foreignpolicy.com/2025/03/14/t...

Trump vaguely calls, after a 30-year moratorium, for a resumption of nuclear testing. Expert response: "It is really an extraordinarily dangerous time of history." #NationalSecurity www.commondreams.org/news/extreme...

Nuclear sabre-rattling: #Russia tested a nuclear-powered cruise missile that it said is capable of traveling thousands of miles. Trump countered that there is a U.S. nuclear submarine off Russia’s coast. #Peace #NationalSecurity www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...

A House of Dynamite, a recently released movie, asks what nuclear weapons deter, if the outcome of using them is the extinction of life on earth. Yet we build more of them... #Peace #missile #DESTRUCTION thebulletin.org/2025/10/a-ho...

"Capitalism has always been based on #Growth ." Yes, and growth will soon lead to an ugly end for many of us. But the inner logic of capitalism is profits, not growth. So the issue is: how to reconcile profits with constraints on inputs? #ClimateCrisis #CleanEnergy