
Our Causes Are Connected, Our Movements Should Be Too
By David Swanson Global corporations and international government alliances are pushing war, environmental destruction, economic exploitation, defunding of schools and housing, hateful divisive ideologies, and

Has Van Jones Lost His Mind, Or Are Sane People Missing the Point?
By David Swanson, Let’s Try Democracy. A rational and moral person might think of the recent U.S. raid in Yemen this way. Here’s one small

Israel’s Anti-Semitism Smears Backfire
By Ann Wright, Consortium News. In Rome, Israeli Embassy and Jewish Community Association Use Anti-Semitism to Cancel Ann Wright’s Talk on Gaza at Rome City

Drone Protesters Arrested on Tuesday
Report from Toby Blomé, War Is A Crime.org. Anti-Drone Activists Blocked Gate to Beale AFB with Life-Sized Figures of Drone Victims Four Arrested While “Putting

A Sample Local Resolution to Resist and Overcome — and How to Pass It
Related posts. Sample resolution on Venezuela 2025. Sample U.S. resolution on Gaza 2024. Passing local resolutions in favor of moving funding from militarism to human

Trump reverses ‘costly, failed war’ rhetoric; gives Pentagon a raise
President Donald Trump aims to increase the Pentagon’s budget by $54 billion, as part of a push to rebuild America’s “depleted military.” Trump also promised

Remembering Reykjavik: A Nuclear History Lesson for Trump and Putin
By Vladimir Dvorkin, Carnegie Moscow Center. Over thirty years ago, in October 1986, the leaders of the United States and the Soviet Union met for

Peace Science Digest, Vol 2, Issue 1
Peace Science Digest. Peace and Conflict Studies (henceforth: Peace Science) has emerged as an academic discipline with its own graduate programs, handbooks, research tools, theories,

This Is Not Your Grandparents’ Resistance
By David Swanson, Let’s Try Democracy. I want to disagree, in part, with a recent recommendation that John Steinbeck’s The Moon Is Down be used

Talk Nation Radio: Michael Kazin on the Peace Activists Who Warned Against World War I
https://soundcloud.com/davidcnswanson/talk-nation-radio-michael-kazin-on-the-peace-activists-who-warned-against-world-war-i Michael Kazin is a professor of history at Georgetown University and editor of Dissent, a magazine of politics and culture which has been published

How ‘New Cold Warriors’ Cornered Trump
By Gareth Porter, Consortium News. Exclusive: The U.S. intelligence community’s extraordinary campaign of leaks claiming improper ties between President Trump’s team and Russia seeks to

Trump Can Prove He’s Not A Putin Puppet By Blowing Up The World
By Norman Solomon, Huffington Post. The incessant goading and denunciations of Trump as a Kremlin flunky are escalating massive pressure on him to prove otherwise.

The Choice Trump’s Budget Creates
By David Swanson Trump proposes to increase U.S. military spending by $54 billion, and to take that $54 billion out of the other portions of

Trump – Putin could rescue the world – and win the Nobel Peace Prize
By Fredrik S. Heffermehl, Public Intelligence Blog. Fredrik S. Heffermehl Donald Trump has promised to repair America´s infrastructure and to lower taxes. We all know

Why Should Trump―or Anyone―Be Able to Launch a Nuclear War?
By Lawrence Wittner, Peace Voice. The accession of Donald Trump to the U.S. presidency brings us face-to-face with a question that many have tried to

Petition Delivered to Foreign Ministers Supporting Nuclear-Free Zones
Message Delivered to Foreign Ministers of the Latin American and Caribbean States assembled February 14, 2017 in Mexico City Congratulations! We look forward to your

Can Canada Get Out of the War Business?
By David Swanson Canada is becoming a major weapons dealer, a reliable accomplice in U.S. wars, and a true believer in “humanitarian” armed peacekeeping as

Open Guantanamo!
By David Swanson, Let’s Try Democracy. Antes des morirme quiero echar mis versos del alma. Open Guantanamo to human rights inspectors. Open its files to

Kazakhstan offers ‘Astana platform’ as venue to resolve conflicts beyond Syria
By Alisher Nuraliyev in Astana Times: Eurasia & World NEW YORK – Kazakhstan believes the Astana platform, which recently demonstrated its usefulness in talks on

Remembering Past Wars . . . and Preventing the Next — San Francisco Event May 25
Remembering Past Wars . . . and Preventing the Next A century since World War I and a half-century since the Vietnam War, a group

Remembering Past Wars and Preventing the Next — NYC Event April 3
Remembering Past Wars . . . and Preventing the Next An event to mark 100 years since the United States entered World War I, and

Remembering Past Wars . . . and Preventing the Next — DC Event April 4
Remembering Past Wars . . . and Preventing the Next An event to mark 100 years since the United States entered World War I, and

100 Years of Using War to Try to End All War
By David Swanson This April 4th will be 100 years since the U.S. Senate voted to declare war on Germany and 50 since Martin Luther

Rana Choir: I didn’t raise my boy to be a soldier
כאן ובכל מקום אחר בעולם – “לא היו מלחמות כבר עתה לוּ כל אם זעקה בשפתה: לא גידלתי את בני להיות חייל!” גירסא מחודשת לשירנו

Resurrecting the Antiwar Movement
by Greg Shupak, Jacobin. Being pro-refugee must also mean being antiwar. The Mazraq refugee camp in Yemen. IRIN Photos / Flickr As President Trump

Poll: Most Americans Worried About War
Americans Also Want to Be Less Active in World Affairs by Jason Ditz, Antiwar.com. A new NBC News/Surveymonkey survey (PDF) was released today revealing that

New Haven Backs Cut to Military Budget
By Henry Lowendorf, U.S. Peace Council New Haven, CT 2017 February 21 The resolution to cut the military budget to fund New Haven, CT, human

Veterans For Peace – NYC Chapter 034
Veterans For Peace – NYC Chapter 034 is an affiliate of World Beyond War. Find us on Facebook. Or email: Robert Keilbach: rakmet AT msn.com

World Beyond War Boston
World Beyond War in Boston is being organized by Freeman Griffin, who would like your help. Contact him at richwgriffin AT gmail.com.

Lawyer: Portugal to extradite ex-CIA agent to Italian jail
Barry Hatton, AP, SFGate. Feb 21, 2017. LISBON, Portugal (AP) — A former CIA agent will be handed over to Italy in the coming days