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“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.

Trump’s America Comes for Alberta | The Tyee The country must respond to this flagrant violation of Canadian sovereignty.

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...

Putin Has Put Ukraine---and the World---At the Brink of Atomic Apocalypse <p><dropcap>V</dropcap>ladimir Putin is at the brink of igniting multiple global-scale atomic catastrophes at as many as 19 nuclear power plants in Ukraine. </p><p>Putin&...

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...

Rethinking Nonviolent Defence for the 21st Century - Richard Sandbrook - PROGRESSIVE FUTURES BLOG After defining what nonviolent defence in the 2020s, I suggest that joint deployment of both nonviolent and armed defence is viable and implementable under certain foreseeable conditions.,

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...

‘Tariff for Oligarchs’: Top Economist Urges Europe to Fight Trump by Punishing US Billionaires | Common Dreams "Europe should respond to Trump’s blackmail with targeted measures aimed not at American consumers, but at American billionaires," wrote Gabriel Zucman.

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...

How Gen Z movements around the globe shared tactics and challenges Leaderless uprisings cascaded across 11 countries and shook governments in 2025. Now, Gen Z protesters must find the road to lasting political power.

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 happens when seeing is no longer believing? Two fast-accelerating trends in how people consume and produce information—in selective exposure to agreeable content and in our ability to generate realistic-looking audio, documents, photos, and vid...

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...

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.

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...

Eighty years and 89 seconds: It’s time to fight against midnight In the 80th year of the nuclear age, with just 89 seconds left on the Doomsday Clock, every nuclear challenge is trending in the wrong direction.

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

China's strategic missile defense exacerbates arms race instability China’s first publicly acknowledged missile defense system capable of midcourse interception of long-range missiles, the HQ-29, is raising questions about Chinese intentions and threatening to intensi...

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...

Yale Historian Warns Trump Is Putting US on Path to World War III | Common Dreams Yale historian Greg Grandin warns that Trump's foreign policy could lead to a new world war, as US seeks to control global spheres of influence.

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 Mobilizes a People's Army The government has finally laid its cards on the table.

#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

An Open Letter to the Trump NatSec Team The United States is still the most powerful nation on earth, but the gravest challenges we face go beyond those that even the most powerful state can address on its own.

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...

The Gangster Regime Revealed Any pundit, politician or commentator who thought that Canada could make its way through this so-called rough patch in U.S.-Canadian relations and come out the other end needs to think again.

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...

Trump Frees Ex-President of Honduras, Right-Wing "Narco-Dictator" Convicted of Drug Trafficking The pardon of Juan Orlando Hernández, who served less than two years of a 45-year sentence for drug trafficking, comes as Trump threatens war on Venezuela over “narcoterrorism.”

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...

Americans are dying from extreme heat. Autopsy reports don’t show the full story Official reports are likely to overlook heat’s role in a death. As US temperatures rise, experts say the true toll needs to be counted

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/...

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.

"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-...

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.

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...

2025 Nuclear Testing Webinar YouTube video by Arms Control Association

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...