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By Yves Engler, June 17, 2019 From Internationalist 360 The brazenness of Ottawa’s intervention in the South American country’s affairs is remarkable. Recently Global Affairs Canada tendered a contract for an individual to coordinate its bid to oust President Nicolás Maduro. According […]
World BEYOND War believes that education is a critical component of a global security system and an essential tool for getting us there.
By Joseph Essertier, June 21, 2019 Some people are actually happy about the “consistently increasing defence budgets” of recent years. One finds those words in the Exhibitor Prospectus for the weapons market in Japan called the “Maritime Air Systems & […]
By David Swanson, Executive Director of World BEYOND War, June 21, 2019 A new film by Will Watson, called Soldiers Without Guns, ought to shock a great many people — not because it utilizes a yet more gruesome form of […]
Martin E. Hellman is Professor Emeritus of Electrical Engineering at Stanford University. His work spans cyber security, reducing the risk of a nuclear disaster, and peace. His invention of public key cryptography is at the heart of the secure portion of the […]
By David Swanson, June 18, 2019 Jeffrey Ostler’s Surviving Genocide: Native Nations and the United States from the American Revolution to Bleeding Kansas, tells a complex, honest, and nuanced story of what overall and in many particular parts fits the […]
By Joline Gutierrez Krueger, June 19, 2019 From Albuquerque Journal Sally-Alice Thompson has led a life so full of incredible accomplishments and adventures that it’s hard to know where to start. We could begin with the time she traveled 450 […]
By Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J S Davies, June 17, 2019 From Common Dreams While the mystery of who is responsible for sabotaging the two tankers in the Gulf of Oman remains unsolved, it is clear that the Trump administration […]
By World BEYOND War, June 17, 2019 The government of Ecuador has recently agreed to allow the U.S. military to base aircraft and naval ships at one of the Galapagos Islands in violation of the Constitution of Ecuador, which both […]
By David Swanson, Executive Director of World BEYOND War, June 17, 2019 Scientists not employed by ExxonMobil or named Neil DeGrasse Tyson have reached a universal consensus. Wanting the United States to attack Iran is the single stupidest idea yet […]
On This Day: On this date each year the UN’s International Day in Support of Victims of Torture is observed by UN member nations, civil society groups, and individuals around the world.
In today’s wars, the use of torture and other forms of cruel, degrading and inhuman treatment remains all too common. Documented use of torture by the United States goes unprosecuted and undeterred
Gail Davis on the Lawlessness of U.S Sanctioning of Torture: worldbeyondwar.org/talk-nation-radio-gail-davidson-on-lawlessness-of-u-s-sanctioning-of-torture/
Read more from our Peace Almanac: worldbeyondwar.org/calendar6/#jun26
Peace Almanac June - World Beyond War . . .
June June 1 June 2 June 3 June 4 June 5 June 6 June 7 June 8 June 9 June 10 June 11 June 12 June 13 June 14 June 15 June 16 June 17 June 18 June 19 June …“Greenhouse gas emission accounting usually focuses on how much energy and fuel civilians use. But recent work, including our own, shows that the US military is one of the largest polluters in history, consuming more liquid fuels and emitting more climate-changing gases than most medium-sized countries.”
Thank you to the Canadian Voice of Women for Peace for sharing this article.
10 companies profiting the most from war
10 companies profiting the most from war
Defense contractors looking overseas to offset impact of budget cuts, conflict troop pullouts.Yesterday, Oregon's House of Representatives voted to approve Senate Joint Memorial 5, which supports the Nuclear Ban Treaty and urges Congress to lead a global effort to reduce the threat of nuclear war, making it the second state in the U.S. after California to pass such legislation. World Beyond War is one of 31 organizations that supported this campaign. www.oregonpsr.org/support_the_oregon_legislative_resolution_on_nuclear_weapons
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Sign the petition to Oregon's State Legislature encouraging them to adopt Senate Joint Memorial 5, which urges congress to lead global effort to reduce threat of nuclear war.Military spending: 20 companies profiting the most from war
Military spending: 20 companies profiting the most from war
Lockheed Martin, Boeing and Raytheon top list of companies profiting from war, according to highest weapons sales data reviewed by 24/7 Wall Street.
