When preparing today’s radio program Kaukoputki I asked Erkki Tuomioja, the Finnish Foreign Minister, about his new US colleague John Kerry. I was trying to figure out whether Tuomioja would perceive similarities between the occasional antiwar activities of Kerry and the peace activism of Tuomioja himself.

Tuomioja’s response, for the record, was: “Peace movement and opposing a particular war are somewhat different things” Continue reading →