Surviving Capitalism (Not) : World Powers Keeping Firm Grip on Nuclear Weapons Arsenals: Report

We’ve lived so long under the spell of hierarchy—from god-kings to feudal lords to party bosses—that only recently have we awakened to see not only that “regular” citizens have the capacity for self-governance, but that without their engagement our huge global crises cannot be addressed. The changes needed for human society simply to survive, let alone thrive, are so profound that the only way we will move toward them is if we ourselves, regular citizens, feel meaningful ownership of solutions through direct engagement. Our problems are too big, interrelated, and pervasive to yield to directives from on high.
—Frances Moore Lappé, excerpt from Time for Progressives to Grow Up

Tuesday, June 17, 2014

World Powers Keeping Firm Grip on Nuclear Weapons Arsenals: Report

Click here to access article by Sarah Lazare from Common Dreams.

A new report by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute shows clearly that in spite of the promises made under the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons agreed to in 1968 and extended in 1995, nations officially possessing nuclear weapons are generally modernizing their inventories and some are expanding their stockpiles.