Photo Essay: The Military is Poisoning America’s Groundwater
By Pat Elder, January 20, 2019 PFAS found in drinking water near Battle Creek National Guard Base. America is experiencing one of the greatest public
Gorilla Radio with Chris Cook, Dave Lindorff, David Swanson, Janine Bandcroft January 17th, 2019
From Gorilla Radio, January 18, 2019 Listen Last month, Philadelphia Judge Leon Tucker ruled, in part, favourably in a two year-old plea by Mumia Abu-Jamal’s
DRIVE FOR FIVE: How We Build a Bigger Movement
The Drive for Five campaign is a way for you to help grow WBW and it won’t cost you a dime. Here’s how to get
Talk Nation Radio: Rob Kajiwara on U.S. Bases on Okinawa
Rob Kajiwara is an Okinawan-Hawaian singer-songwriter and visual artist. In 2017, he was made a cultural ambassador for his ancestral village of Nakagusuku, Okinawa. In
Top 10 Reasons Not to Love NATO
By David Swanson, January 15, 2018 The New York Times loves NATO, but should you? Judging by comments in social media and the real world, millions of people
WBW News: Five people can change the world
Join our Drive for Five! Happy birthday to us! World BEYOND War got its start five years ago by asking people to sign on to
Major News in Japan: Event in U.S. Opposing Bases in Okinawa
A major story across Japanese media (links below) is an event that occurred in Washington D.C. on Monday, January 7th at 11 a.m. Opponents of
Anything War Can Do, Peace Can Do Better
By David Swanson, January 8, 2019 William James’ idea of the need to create a moral equivalent of war first struck me, decades ago, when
The New Congress Needs to Create a Green Planet at Peace
By Medea Benjamin and Alice Slater, January 8, 2019 A deafening chorus of negative grumbling from the left, right, and center of the US political
U.S. Bases in Okinawa Are a Threat to Freedom
By David Swanson, Director, World BEYOND War Remarks at Rally outside White House, January 7, 2019. There are a number of problems with the idea
Mairead Maguire Nominates Julian Assange for Nobel Peace Prize
Mairead Maguire, has today written to the Nobel Peace Prize Committee in Oslo to nominate Julian Assange, Editor-in-Chief of Wikileaks, for the 2019 Nobel Peace
Henoko: The Latest Sacrifice Zone of the US-Japan Military Alliance
By Joseph Essertier, January 6, 2019 From ZNet “The capacity to write off large segments of humanity as Other, as disposable, as less than human
The Hidden Structure of US Empire
By Nicolas J. S. Davies, January 3, 2019 From Antiwar.org My father was a doctor in the British Royal Navy, and I grew up traveling
A Loose Cannon For Peace?
By Bob Koehler, January 3, 2019 Circle the wagons! Apparently what’s under assault is war itself, or so the Establishment believes, in the wake of
Bernie Sanders Starts Mentioning the Military Budget
By David Swanson Bernie Sanders has added the existence of foreign policy onto the bottom of emails like the one below, after having posted a
Rally at White House on January 7th for Okinawa
At 11 a.m. on January 7, opponents of military base construction in Okinawa will gather in front of the White House in Washington, D.C., in
The Tyranny of Contamination: The US Military is poisoning Okinawa.
By Pat Elder, World BEYOND War, December 31, 2018 High concentrations of the deadly compounds Per-fluoro-octane sulfonate (PFOS) and Per-fluoro-octanoic acid (PFOA), together known as
World BEYOND War News: Ending Wars in the New Year
Around the world, nations are signing onto a treaty to ban nuclear weapons. Even major weapons dealing nations are ending weapons sales to Saudi Arabia.
Two-Week Fast Calls for an End to War in Yemen and Dramatic Measures to Avoid Famine
PARTICIPANTS BEGIN IN NYC AND END IN DC. At least twelve people from around the United States and the United Kingdom will undertake a Fast
A Point of Holiday Agreement: Stop Wasting Money on the Pentagon
By Lindsay Koshgarian From Other Words, December 24, 2018 In this season of (hoped for) peace and goodwill, it’s worth looking for things our divided country
Isolationism or Imperialism: You Really Can’t Imagine a Third Possibility?
Of the United Nations’ 18 major human rights treaties, the United States is party to 5, fewer than any other nation on earth, except Bhutan
Talk Nation Radio: Leonard Higgins on Extinction Rebeliion
Leonard Higgins is a member of the Extinction Rebellion U.S. National Coordination Team and was a valve turner two years ago, one of a number
Something We Can Agree On: Close Some Overseas Bases
By Miriam Pemberton, Defense One A group of national security experts from left, right, and center says cutting some of America’s 800 far-flung outposts will
Bring the Troops Home, But Also Stop the Bombing
By Medea Benjamin, Nicolas J. S. Davies NATO-led airstrikes during the 2011 bombing of Libya. (Photo: Indy Media) As our nation debates the merits of President
With Syria announcement, Trump confronts his own militarist cabal
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We can end the war on Syria
By PopularResistance.org The US war against Syria was one that people almost stopped. President Obama was unable to get Congress to authorize the war in
We Applaud Trump’s Decision on Syria Withdrawal
By CODE PINK CODEPINK applauds President Trump’s decision to withdraw U.S.troops from Syria. The president made a statement on Twitter that the U.S had defeated
Withdrawing U.S. Troops Is the Right Thing to Do
By Veterans For Peace Veterans For Peace is pleased to hear that President Trump has ordered a total withdrawal of U.S. troops from Syria, where
It’s About Time the United States Ends the Illegal Presence in Syria and Withdraws from Afghanistan
By Black Alliance for Peace, December 21, 2018 A real panic among the militarists and flunkeys of the military-industrial complex: They are concerned the U.S.
U.S. Military Out of Syria
U.S. President Donald Trump has announced his intention to remove all U.S. troops from Syria. If that happens it will fulfill part of the demand