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Iran solidarity group calls for halt to slide to war

January 17, 2012 By Special to People’s World

The ongoing killing of Iranian scientists has been condemned as a provocation to war by a leading solidarity organization campaigning for peace in the Middle East.

Escalating conflict with Iran could spur disastrous war

January 13, 2012 By Jane Green

This situation, if not resolved, could lead to a conflagration of unimaginable proportions, with consequences that will reverberate throughout the Middle East and the world.

“Doomsday” clock pushed forward amidst fears of nuclear conflict

January 11, 2012 By Cory Collins

Created in 1947 to represent the relative closeness of the threat of nuclear disaster, the clock's face has been adjusted twenty times.

Pakistan: anatomy of a crisis

December 5, 2011 By Conn Hallinan

The question being asked is whether the assault was a "fog of war" incident or a calculated hit.

Edward Elkind, lifelong peace activist, dies

December 1, 2011 By Special to People’s World

Edward H. Elkind, 81, a Marxist activist and teacher who also worked as a computer programmer and advocated such causes as D.C. home rule, rent control, public housing and public health clinics, died Oct. 8.