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“As a 29 year veteran of the US Army/Army Reserves, retiring as a Colonel and having served as a U.S. diplomat for 16 years and

“I support this proposal and agree with this great and important initiative to abolish militarism and war.  I will continue to speak out for an

“What I appreciate most about World Beyond War is that it does not ruminate on the pluses and minuses of each military intervention but takes

“With a country that seems to be engaged in perpetual war, this conference was an important step towards reorienting a peace & justice movement.” —

“This year’s World Beyond War Conference was an extraordinary gathering of activists, writers, and community organizers — a critical step in building power and the

By David Swanson Back in the winter of 1982, Air Florida flight 90 took off from National Airport. The first officer noticed dangerous readings on

By International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) The United Nations today adopted a landmark resolution to launch negotiations in 2017 on a treaty outlawing

By David Swanson A new poll from an unlikely source suggests that the U.S. public and the U.S. media have very little in common when

Government leaders must leave behind these four failed counterterrorism strategies. By Michael German, US News and World Report   The counterterrorism debate is again playing

By David Swanson Officially, of course, the national bird of the United States is that half-a-peace-sign that Philadelphia sports fans like to hold up at

Five peace group have come together to oppose the awarding of the Tipperary International Peace Prize to US Secretary of State John Kerry on Sunday

By Sabia Rigby “I was in jail with a Libyan man, his friends came and broke into the jail and let us go, too. There

9 Anti-Drone Protesters Blocked Traffic Entering a U.S. Drone Base in Marysville, Calif. 4 Activists Arrested While Trying to Impede Beale Air Force Base’s participation in

Many in national security circles consider the risk of a confrontation with Russia to be severe: ‘I wouldn’t put it past them to shoot down

The International Criminal Court charges only Africans with human rights crimes while granting impunity to U.S. officials and their allies, undermining what had been a

By David Swanson, World Beyond War I recently debated a pro-war professor on the topic “Is war ever necessary?” (video). I argued for abolishing war.

War is first and foremost a profitable racket. By Dennis Kucinich, The Nation Washington, DC, may be the only place in the world where people

Data to be made public this week reveals the extent to which the weapons were used on “soft targets”  Records detailing as many as 181,000

A protest, led by the Women Wage Peace organization, included Liberian Peace Prize laureate Leymah Gbowee, who spoke warmly of the initiative and working toward

By CCTV Africa The United Nations has accused Israel of fuelling the war in South Sudan through the sale of arms to the government of

By Craig Murray It is disconcerting to be praised by a website whose next article warns of a “plague of sodomites”. Sometimes truth-telling is a

By Anna Polo, PRESSENZA This post is also available in: Italian (Image by Ragesoss, Wikimedia Commons) In your website https://worldbeyondwar.org/ you say: “We strive to

By: Cathy Breen, Voices for Creative Nonviolence I’ve written often about our Iraqi refugee friend and his oldest son from Baghdad. I will call them

By Gary Black, NewsMiner FAIRBANKS — Noble Peace Prize nominee, author and activist David Swanson is speaking in Fairbanks this weekend, where he will talk

By Nick Turse, TomDispatch Slaughter is all too human. Killing fields or mass burial grounds are in the archeological record from the Neolithic period (6,000 to

By Dennis Kucinich The most consequential statement by Secretary Clinton in last night’s debate was her pronouncement that a no-fly zone over Syria could “save