Flotilla to the Pentagon: An update on the anti-war movement
By Nation of Change With everything going on it’s easy to forget the anti-war movement. Rest assured, they are still fighting the war machine. With
Welcome to No War 2017: War and the Environment
By David Swanson Remarks at #NoWar2017 conference on September 22, 2017. Video here. Welcome to No War 2017: War and the Environment. Thank you all
UN Treaty Signing a Significant Step Towards a World Free of Nuclear Weapons
By Shanta Roy UNITED NATIONS (IDN) — The international community took its first significant step towards a world free of nuclear weapons when over 50
Have we lost our way in war?
By David Swanson, September 21, 2017, Let’s Try Democracy. Opening debate remarks at the University of Pennsylvania on September 21, 2017, on the following proposition:
Clean sediment is free of mercury.
For more than 75 years, mercury contamination from Badger Army Ammunition Plant has poisoned fish and aquatic life in Lake Wisconsin, placing public health at
The bully showed up at the wrong playground – Trump’s misguided address at the United Nations
By Patrick T. Hiller, September 21, 2017, PeaceVoice. “It was the wrong speech, at the wrong time, to the wrong audience,” Swedish foreign Minister Margot
Most Soldiers are Non-Killers: The Impact of State Sanctioned Violence and Its Targets
by Heather Gray, December 15, 2014, Justice Initiative reposted September 21, 2017. There’s nothing glorious about war or in killing. The human cost of war
South Korean Self-Immolates, Demands U.S. THAAD Weapons Be Kept Out of Korea
Cho Young-sam self-immolated himself yesterday, leaving behind a plea for NO THAAD in South Korea: Our country only has a future via the success of
“The Vietnam War” – Documentary Or Epic Of Fiction?
From Moon Over Alabama, September 20, 2017. Arte TV yesterday showed the first parts of The Vietnam War by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick. It
John F. Kennedy: A Peace Legacy Lost
By Craig Etchison, Phd John F. Kennedy was murdered over fifty years ago. Not long after his death, Congress passed the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
The Best Speech Ever Yet by Any U.S. President
This was at American University. #NoWar2017 will be there September 22-24 https://worldbeyondwar.org/nowar2017
Waterborne Demonstration Puts Pentagon’s Environmental Impact Front and Center
By John Zangas and Anne Meado. Arlington, Va. — On Sunday afternoon, the Backbone Campaign, World Without War, the Raging Grannies, and other peace and
America’s slow-motion military coup
By Stephen Kinzer, September 16, 2017, Boston Globe. In a democracy, no one should be comforted to hear that generals have imposed discipline on an
The Best Speech Yet From Any U.S. President
In planning an upcoming conference aimed at challenging the institution of war, to be held at American University September 22-24, I can’t help but be
Human Rights, Future Generations and Crimes in the Nuclear Age
Congress, 14 – 17 September 2017, University of Basel Basel Declaration on human rights and trans-generational crimes resulting from nuclear weapons and nuclear energy The
Man Who Saved the World From Nuclear Annihilation Dies at 77
In 1983, Soviet lieutenant colonel Stanislav Petrov kept his cool and reported a U.S. missile strike as a false alarm, preventing a massive counterstrike By
Kayaking activists protest ‘petroleum wars’ outside Pentagon (VIDEO)
Several dozen activists paddled their kayaks outside the Pentagon to protest the US military’s pollution of water and use of fossil fuels, which they claim
No War 2017: Kayaktivists decry DoD pollution outside the Pentagon
Published on Sep 18, 2017 About 50 protesters kayaked to the Pentagon with a banner saying “No oil for wars, no wars for oil.” David
Michiganders Invited to Give Peace a Chance This Week
Mona Shand, Public News Service,September 18, 2017 LANSING, Mich. – Faith groups, grassroots activists and community organizations from all over Michigan will come together this