by UFPJ web | Jul 26, 2025 | Action Alerts, Events & Updates, Nuclear Disarmament/Redefining Security, Top Story
As we approach the 80th anniversaries of the U.S. atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 6 and 9, authoritarian nationalists now hold state power in seven of the nine nuclear-armed states. Even limited progress towards arms control and disarmament has...
by UFPJ web | Jun 28, 2025 | Nuclear Disarmament/Redefining Security, Top Story
August 6 and 9, 2025 will mark the 80th anniversaries of the U.S. atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. But before the U.S. bombed Hiroshima, on July 16, 1945, it bombed New Mexico, conducting the very first test explosion of a nuclear weapon at the White Sands...
by UFPJ web | Jun 28, 2025 | Confronting Islamophobia, Iraq, Top Story
On June 1, Air Force Colonel Matthew McCall, the fourth judge to preside over the 9/11 Military Commission pre-trial hearings at Guantanamo retired, as he had long ago announced he would. His final significant ruling in the hearings, which in May entered their 13th...
by UFPJ web | May 25, 2025 | Events & Updates, Nuclear Disarmament/Redefining Security, Top Story
Photo credit: Alyn Ware From April 28 – May 9, 2025, states parties to the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT) met at United Nations headquarters in New York City for the third Preparatory Committee (PrepCom) meeting for the 2026 NPT Review Conference. The NPT...
by UFPJ web | Apr 25, 2025 | Economic Justice, Events & Updates, Member Group, Military Spending, Poor Peoples Campaign, Racial Justice, Top Story
Photo: Oakland, CA Beyond Vietnam readers; photo credit: Sandy Thacker In his prophetic speech, “Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence,” delivered on April 4, 1967, exactly one year before his tragic and untimely assassination, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. declared:...
