Science for Peace
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Nerdy organization, based in Toronto, engaged in education and research on such existential threats as nuclear weapons, militarism and climate change. https://www.scienceforpeace.org
"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-...
Michael Mann to Bill Gates: You can’t reboot the planet if you crash it
What Gates is putting forward aren’t legitimate arguments that can be made in good faith. They are shopworn fossil fuel industry talking points.
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November 30, 2025 at 7:30 PM
"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...
Post-truth disasters: We're not ready for nuclear war on social media
Risks of a serious crisis are rising. But for disaster response, the information environment has never been worse.
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November 27, 2025 at 9:09 PM
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...
2025 Nuclear Testing Webinar
YouTube video by Arms Control Association
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November 24, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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...
Climate Talks End With 'Empty Deal' That Fails on Forests, Finance, and Fossil Fuels | Common Dreams
"COP30 provides a stark reminder that the answers to the climate crisis do not lie inside the climate talks—they lie with the people and movements leading the way toward a just, equitable, fossil-fre...
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November 24, 2025 at 5:21 PM
“ #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...
Episode 727 If You Need Nonviolent Defence
Isaiah Ritzmann and Richard Sandbrook are co-chairing a new organization, the Canadian Coalition for Nonviolent Defence, which is preparing people for Trump's possible takeover of Canada.
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November 19, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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...
If we want peace, we must fund what builds it
Armed conflict is rising, and Canada plans to increase military spending. Peace advocates say that social programs, not militarization, make a safer world. Even military generals in Canada and the Uni...
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November 18, 2025 at 4:33 PM
"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...
The UN Security Council Accepts US Plan for Gaza With Wariness - PassBlue
The UN Security Council Accepts US Plan for Gaza With Wariness - PassBlue
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November 18, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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...
50,000 March in Brazil to Celebrate Death of Fossil Fuel Industry at COP30 | Common Dreams
"It is time to put these old fuels where they belong—in the ground of history.”
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November 17, 2025 at 3:55 PM
"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...
Dark forces are preventing us fighting the climate crisis – by taking knowledge hostage | George Monbiot
The fundamental problem is this: that most of the means of communication are owned or influenced by the very rich, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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November 14, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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...
Greasing the Skid for War: Trump and the Coming War on Venezuela
Arnd JurgensenThe White House from Washington, DC, Public domain, via Wikimedia CommonsMr. Trumps second arrival in the White House signifies a drastic transition in the nature of U.S. politics and in...
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November 13, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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-...
Golden Dome and the Myth of Invulnerability – SANE Policy Institute
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November 5, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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...
The greenlash is built on lazy thinking, writes a climate activist
Luisa Neubauer argues that rolling back climate policies is economic suicide masquerading as pragmatism
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November 3, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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-...
Michael Mann to Bill Gates: You can’t reboot the planet if you crash it
What Gates is putting forward aren’t legitimate arguments that can be made in good faith. They are shopworn fossil fuel industry talking points.
thebulletin.org
November 3, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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...
An Unreliable America Means More Countries Want the Bomb
Without credible U.S. security guarantees, nuclear proliferation is likely to increase rapidly across Europe and Asia.
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November 2, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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...
'Extremely Dangerous for Humanity': Trump Orders Resumption of US Nuclear Weapons Testing | Common Dreams
"By foolishly announcing his intention resume nuclear testing," said one expert, "Trump will trigger strong public opposition in Nevada, from all U.S. allies, and it could trigger a chain reaction."
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October 30, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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
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of traveling thousands of miles. Trump countered that there is a U.S. nuclear submarine off Russia’s coast. #Peace #NationalSecurity
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Trump rebukes Putin for testing new missiles, tells him to end the war
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.
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October 28, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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...
of traveling thousands of miles. Trump countered that there is a U.S. nuclear submarine off Russia’s coast. #Peace #NationalSecurity
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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...
‘A House of Dynamite’: Bigelow’s latest thriller shows why nuclear bombs are only part of the danger
Kathryn Bigelow's latest film, A House of Dynamite, examines how the US government would respond to a nuclear attack in real-time.
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October 27, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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
October 24, 2025 at 7:54 PM
"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
Nonviolent tactics are intuitively obvious to people: witness the Canadian boycott of US goods and refusal to travel to the US. Both in response to Trump's bullying of Canada through tariffs and annexation threats. #RESISTANCE #Canada charlieangus.substack.com/p/canadas-pe...
Canada's People Power Movement Deals MAGA a Massive Hit
We are now 10 months into Trump’s economic war on Canada.
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October 22, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Nonviolent tactics are intuitively obvious to people: witness the Canadian boycott of US goods and refusal to travel to the US. Both in response to Trump's bullying of Canada through tariffs and annexation threats. #RESISTANCE #Canada charlieangus.substack.com/p/canadas-pe...
"No Kings" protest built solidarity, in an atomized society, among those opposed to authoritarianism. Protesters could see they were far from alone. Solidarity and action also builds a sense of political efficacy. But this is not enough. What follows? #NoKings
October 21, 2025 at 7:34 PM
"No Kings" protest built solidarity, in an atomized society, among those opposed to authoritarianism. Protesters could see they were far from alone. Solidarity and action also builds a sense of political efficacy. But this is not enough. What follows? #NoKings
Is Canada too "nice" to Trump? Are we incrementally heading toward vassal-state status? Join us Nov. 11. #carney #Canada #ForeignPolicy
October 21, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Is Canada too "nice" to Trump? Are we incrementally heading toward vassal-state status? Join us Nov. 11. #carney #Canada #ForeignPolicy
Here is a brilliant historical perspective on the war in #Gaza , by a renowned historian of the Middle East, Ilan Pappe. Pappe sees Israel as a case of settler #colonialism . #GazaCeasefire www.youtube.com/watch?v=fvb2...
Ilan Pappé on the Israel-Palestine Crisis
YouTube video by Science4Peace
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October 16, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Here is a brilliant historical perspective on the war in #Gaza , by a renowned historian of the Middle East, Ilan Pappe. Pappe sees Israel as a case of settler #colonialism . #GazaCeasefire www.youtube.com/watch?v=fvb2...
Is Trump serious about annexing Greenland, #Panama Canal and Canada? It's hard to understand why he would be - the US already has access to minerals and security agreements. But still... #colonialism #invasion thebulletin.org/premium/2025...
Will the Trump administration attempt to annex Greenland, Canada, or somewhere else? A prominent historian’s take - Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
How seriously should the world take the Trump administration's threats to annex the lands of other countries "one way or another?" The author of "How to Hide an Empire" says that while a land grab may...
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October 16, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Is Trump serious about annexing Greenland, #Panama Canal and Canada? It's hard to understand why he would be - the US already has access to minerals and security agreements. But still... #colonialism #invasion thebulletin.org/premium/2025...
What we have in #Gaza is not a peace plan but a pause before hostilities continue. The only basis for real peace is a mutual acceptance that the two sides must live together in the shared space of greater Palestine. #GazaCeasefire
October 15, 2025 at 5:51 PM
What we have in #Gaza is not a peace plan but a pause before hostilities continue. The only basis for real peace is a mutual acceptance that the two sides must live together in the shared space of greater Palestine. #GazaCeasefire