Billboards to End War Going Up and Not Going Up
By David Swanson, Director, World BEYOND War New billboards are going up around the United States and elsewhere opposing war. Some are not going up
Tokyoites Stand with Okinawans as the Final Stage of the Killing of the Henoko Coral Begins
By Joseph Essertier, Coordinator, Japan for a World BEYOND War, 17 December 2018 On US television, in US newspapers, and on US-based Internet news sites
World BEYOND War News: Militarism in the Media
Kick off the New Year with our next webinar! SAVE THE DATE: Militarism in the Media Webinar on January 15 at 8:00 p.m. Eastern Time
Interview With David Krieger, Nuclear Age Peace Foundation
By John Scales Avery, December 14, 2018 A series of interviews of outstanding people in the peace movement has been commissioned by the Internet journal
The Abolition of War Requires New Thoughts, Words, and Actions
By David Swanson Remarks in Albuquerque, New Mexico, December 12, 2018 There’s action happening now in the U.S. Senate on ending U.S. participation in the
Why Green New Deal Advocates Must Address Militarism
By Medea Benjamin and Alice Slater, December 12, 2018 From Common Dreams In the spirit of a new year and a new Congress, 2019 may
Stand With Okinawa
By Moé Yonamine From Common Dreams, December 12, 2018 “Don’t cry here,” an 86-year-old Okinawan grandmother I had never met before told me. She stood
Talk Nation Radio: Mark Colville Tells Why He Hammered and Poured Blood on Nuclear Weapons
Mark Colville is one of the seven Kings Bay Plowshares activists. We recorded this interview on December 11th 2018, and Mark planned to turn himself
史上最悪の差別とは何なのか! Photo Exhibit & Talk with Kenji Higuchi: What is the Worst Kind of Discrimination?
From left to right: Japan for a World BEYOND War Coordinator Joseph Essertier, NISHI Eiko, KANBE Ikuo, and HIGUCHI Kenji. 11月10日に名古屋の東別院ホールでワールド・ビヨンド・ウォーはフォトジャーナリストの樋口健二さんに講演してもらいました。「毒ガス島」で働いた日本人の労働者について教えてくれました。興味深い講演でした。未来の人々が毒ガスという大量破壊兵器を使わないように彼は記録を取りました。 In honor of the
Background To The Present Russia/Ukraine Crisis
By Phil Wilayto, December 6, 2018 Tensions between Russia and Ukraine have risen sharply following the Nov. 25 seizure of two Ukrainian gunboats and a
Earth Over the Brink
Glacier National Park is drip drip dripping into a puddle. People and companies and governments are cutting down trees to burn them to save the
Seeing Yemen from Jeju Island
By Kathy Kelly People digging through rubble in war-torn Yemen. “Killing people, through war or starvation, never solves problems,” write Kathy Kelly. “I strongly believe
The Ancient Mythical Rites of Pearl Harbor Day
Last week I spoke at a high school. As I often do, I told them I’d perform a magic trick. I only know one, but
Talk Nation Radio: Dave Lindorff on the Pentagon’s Fictional Budget
Dave Lindorff is an investigative reporter who writes for the Nation, London Review of Books, Salon and Tarbell.org. He is founder of the collectively run
Climate Change Requires We Convert The US War Machine Now
By Bruce K. Gagnon, December 3, 2018 From Organizing Notes This is the message we will be carrying to Bath Iron Works (BIW) during the
World BEYOND War News: Stop Murdering Yemenis
Halt the Mass Murder in Yemen Denmark, Finland, and Germany have stopped selling weapons to Saudi Arabia. The United States, Canada, UK, France, Spain, Italy,
Yemen, Poisoned Water, and a Green New Deal
By David Swanson, World BEYOND War, December 2, 2018 While U.N. figures suggest that it would take 1% of U.S. military spending to provide the
An Empire of Bases Poisons Water, Threatening Its Own Collapse
The U.S. military’s fire-fighting foam is contaminating groundwater and sickening people in communities near U.S. military bases around the world Double, double toil and trouble;
Something We Can Agree On: Close Some Overseas Bases
By Miriam Pemberton, November 28, 2018 From Defense One This moment, after the midterm elections and before the partisan wars get fully back into gear,
Talk Nation Radio: James Crossland on War Reformers and War Abolishers
James Crossland is Senior Lecturer in International History at Liverpool John Moores University, and a founder member of the Humanitarian Working Histories Group. He is
Open Letter to Senator Bernie Sanders
On Wednesday, November 28, 2018, over 100 U.S. scholars, intellectuals, and activists published the open letter to Senator Bernie Sanders below and invited others to
We need your support today, Giving Tuesday
When you buy anything as a gift or make a donation on someone’s behalf, we’ll send a beautiful card at the time of your choosing
Listen to the Governor of Okinawa
By Alexis Dudden, November 12, 2018 From LobeLog The East China Sea seems to have disappeared. Not literally of course, yet only a few years
The NYT’s David Sanger, the Boy Who Cried “Nukes”!
By Joseph Essertier, November 23, 2018 From Counterpunch Since the early 1990s the US mass media has consistently portrayed the government of North Korea as a “desperate
I Never Expected To Become A Conscientious Objector
By Matt Malcom, World BEYOND War I never expected to become a conscientious objector. If you would have asked me two years ago to name
The Dramatic Struggle for Our Planet and for Humanity in Henoko, Okinawa
Photos by Kawaguchi Mayumi Text by Joseph Essertier The political scientist and activist Douglas Lummis has written, “The reasons for abandoning construction of the new
Known Terrorist Searched for Explosives at Dublin Airport or Peace Activist Endures Routine Harassment at Dublin Airport?
By Pat Elder My boarding pass displayed the dreaded SSSS. I knew something wasn’t right when I tried to download my boarding pass
Talk Nation Radio: Barry Sweeney on Ireland, Peace, and Neutrality
Barry Sweeney is a member of the coordinating committee of World BEYOND War, of which I’m the director. Barry is based in Ireland, but is