![]() ![]() He has been warning for several years now that rapidly deteriorating relations between the US and Russia will lead to a new period of sustained political and military tension between the two powers. In March 2013 Stratfor noted: '"With the full support of a feckless policy, elite and an uncritical media establishment, Washington is slipping, if not plunging, into a new Cold War with Moscow." Strong words from Professor Stephen Cohen in a January article published in The Nation, who is a lonely voice in the US academic establishment with an unpopular point of view. The Cold War had been not only rekindled, the flames are visibly rising. Ukraine bleeds daily from the US boasted five Billion dollar coup, Russia is blamed, sanctioned and resultantly feels threatened enough to rearm. Obama's Administration still endorses the illegal overthrow of President Assad of Syria, training the mass murdering, beheading, organ eating "moderate" opposition, and the much vaunted departure from Afghanistan, is not a full departure at all. Gulag Guantanamo remains open, much now militia-run Libya is in ruins, American troops are back in Iraq, where over 2,000 bombing raids have been carried out by American 'planes. to the person who shall have done the most or the best work for fraternity between nations, for the abolition or reduction of standing armies and for the holding and promotion of peace congresses." Since then the myriad mass graves of America's victims have become silent witness to the hypocrisy and insincerity of his address at Oslo City Hall on the 113th Anniversary of Alfred Nobel's death in acceptance of an Award which Nobel's will had specified should be presented: ". In conclusion, to applause, he appealed: "Let us reach for the world that ought to be - that spark of the divine that still stirs within each of our souls." And I'm working with President Medvedev to reduce America and Russia's nuclear stockpiles." He was also committed to: "upholding the (Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty.) It is a centerpiece of my foreign policy. In his acceptance speech the President Obama stated that: "Our actions matter, and can bend history in the direction of justice." In his presentation speech, Nobel Committee Chairman, Thorbjørn Jagland said that Obama had, from the first moments of his Presidency strived against confrontation and had already: "lowered the temperature in the world." "Only very rarely has a person to the same extent as Obama captured the world's attention and given its people hope for a better future." as President he (had) created a new climate in international politics." attached special importance to Obama's vision of and work for a world without nuclear weapons. When Barack Hussein Obama was presented with the Nobel Peace Prize on 10 th December 2009, just eight months in to his Presidency, the motivation was: " for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and co-operation between peoples." The clock ticks now at just three minutes to midnight because international leaders are failing to perform their most important duty - ensuring and preserving the health and vitality of human civilization." ( Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, January 2015.) The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists does not move the hands of the Doomsday Clock for light or transient reasons. Reception after the program. Refreshments will be served.Ĭopyright © 2015 Community Church of Boston, All rights reserved.© " The threat is serious, the time short. (courtesy Music by Stan Strickland, Josh Rosen, CommUnity Voices. Chomsky is widely published, both on topics in his field and on issues of dissent and U.S. Since 1955, he has been a professor at MIT and has produced groundbreaking, controversial theories on human linguistic capacity. (near Roxbury Crossing Stop, Orange line)Īn in-depth look at he Doomsday Clock of the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, advanced two minutes to three minutes to midnight a few months ago because of these two grim threats, Global Warming and Nuclear War.īorn in Philadelphia on December 7, 1928, Prof Noam Chomsky was an intellectual prodigy who went on to earn a PhD in linguistics at the University of Pennsylvania. Program begins at 3 pm at First Church in Roxbury, 10 Putnam St., Eliot Square, Boston 02119 Three Minutes to Midnight: Reflections on Nuclear War and Global Warming
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