‘How Many Minutes to Midnight?’
As we enter the 70th year of the Nuclear War Era, we should be contemplating with wonder that we have survived. We can only guess how many years remain.
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A Middle East Peace That Could Happen (But Won’t)
Chomsky wrote this piece 14 years ago, in April 2010. Its subject was the devastation Israel was causing in Gaza, and on that country’s “criminal siege” of Gaza. Not much different from the situation today.
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Humanity Imperiled: The Path to Disaster
For the first time in the history of the human species, we have clearly developed the capacity to destroy ourselves. That’s been true since 1945. Environmental destruction is also leading in the same direction. And then there are dangers like pandemics …
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The Clock Is Ticking
With landmark anniversaries of the invasions of Iraq and Ukraine, and the failure to address global heating, ninety seconds to midnight may be too generous an appraisal.
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The Doomsday Clock: Nuclear Weapons, Climate Change, and the Prospects for Survival
It’s no small horror that, on this planet of ours, humanity continues to foster two apocalyptic forces, each of which — one in a relative instant and the other over many decades — could cripple or destroy human life as we know it. That should be sobering indeed for all of us.
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Internationalism or Extinction
All the major crises we face today are international, and two internationals are forming to confront them. One is opening today: the Progressive International. The other has been taking shape under the leadership of Trump’s White House, a Reactionary International …
