There is no legal basis for the United States to control the large oceanic area that includes the compact states.

There is no legal basis for the United States to control the large oceanic area that includes the compact states.
A ban is within reach, but only with renewed public pressure.
India’s democrats have missed a chance to attack a policy that helps Putin’s war and undermines India’s democracy
But there’s still hope for the global movement to ban these indiscriminate killers.
In Russia’s former colonies, the hard security conversation is unavoidable.
Let’s incentivize Russia’s turn back toward the West and away from colonizing territories on its periphery.
Pity the country that has no armistice, but pity the country that needs an armistice.
The confrontation between the United States and Soviet Union in 1962 holds important lessons for addressing the potential for nuclear escalation today in Ukraine.
Crimea has long been the object of Russian and Soviet colonialism. How can Crimea change that?
Peace activists should be clamoring for a peace on Ukrainian terms. Since Ukraine is the victim in this conflict, it should ideally decide the timing and the parameters of any peace deal.