
CIVIL SOCIETY MOVEMENTS CALL FOR IMMEDIATE ACTION TO STOP THE SYRIAN WAR
International Peace Bureau October 19, 2016. The mass slaughter and war crimes we witness today in Syria merit the highest level of citizen engagement: they

Commander in Chief
By Robert Koehler, Common Wonders Maybe it’s the phrase — “commander in chief” — that best captures the transcendent absurdity and unaddressed horrors of the

Was a U.S. Ship Attacked by a Missile off the Coast of Yemen… or Not? The Pentagon Can’t Give Straight Answers
The U.S. military has been backing war crimes in Yemen for the past 18 months. By Sarah Lazare, AlterNet On October 8, the Saudi Arabia-led

Why No Protest over Military Appreciation Days?
By Laurence M. Vance, LewRockwell Another Columbus Day has come and gone, but not without protests and calls to change the name and focus of

Riek Machar: Agreement signed in Addis has collapsed
Riek Machar still wants to be involved in the political process in South Sudan. He spoke exclusively to CCTV’s Yolisa Njamela in Johannesburg, South Africa.

Rethinking Killing Civilians
By Tom H. Hastings, Hastings on Nonviolence When challenged about airstrikes that kill civilians—whether from drones or jets with “smart” ordnance—the excuses given by government

Stop the Next President From Waging the Next War
By Zoltan Grossman, CounterPunch Hillary Clinton now says her “number one priority” in Syria is the removal of Bashar al-Assad, putting us on the path

31 Arrested At Nuclear Test Site, 13 At Drone War Base
By Felice Cohen-Joppa, Popular Resistance On Sunday, October 9, 120 people from 17 U.S. states plus Mexico, Australia, Germany and the Netherlands concluded a

Dear General Dynamics, Stop Profiting from Slaughter of Human Beings
[Letter from those signed below] This is the letter our Phoenix-based End the War Coalition delivered this morning to a supervisor at the local General

Hiding US Role in Yemen Slaughter So Bombing Can Be Sold as ‘Self-Defense’
By Adam Johnson, FAIR To hear US corporate media tell it, the US was dragged into a brand new war on Wednesday. US destroyers in

Will the Gulf of Tonkin Fit into the Red Sea?
By David Swanson Just a geography question. Or maybe it’s a different sort of question. Do a web search for “USS Mason” and you will

What Hillary Clinton Privately Told Goldman Sachs
By David Swanson At first glance, Hillary Clinton’s speeches to Goldman Sachs, which she refused to show us but WikiLeaks claims to have now produced

Peace Essay Contest 2017
The West Suburban Faith-Based Peace Coalition is once again sponsoring a Peace Essay Contest with a $1,000.00 award to the winner, $300 for the

White Helmets More Gray
“People always think something’s all true.” —Holden Caulfield When a wonderful program like Democracy Now does a story on the White Helmets in Syria, the

What Police Videos Teach Us About Wars
By David Swanson Before people had an easy way to see video footage of police murders, headlines crediting the police with just and noble actions

“DO NOT RESIST”: THE POLICE MILITARIZATION DOCUMENTARY EVERYONE SHOULD SEE
By Ryan Devereaux, The Intercept ON A SUNNY AFTERNOON last summer, Craig Atkinson, a New York City-based filmmaker, stood in a front yard in South Carolina

U.S. MILITARY OPERATIONS ARE BIGGEST MOTIVATION FOR HOMEGROWN TERRORISTS, FBI STUDY FINDS
By Murtaza Hussain and Cora Currier, The Intercept A SECRET FBI STUDY found that anger over U.S. military operations abroad was the most commonly

Resisting U.S. War Making in Ireland
World Beyond War coordinating committee member Robert Fantina in Ireland: Sign the petition:

Berlin Anti-War March October 8 2016 – PEACE MEET AND PARTY DEALINGS
By Victor Grossman, Berlin Bulletin On Saturday, near my Berlin home, I joined a colorful, long-planned, all-German demonstration for peace. Pushing through the 7000 to

Renewable Revolutionary Railroad Renaissance
By David Swanson The forthcoming book from creative activist and kayaktivist extraordinaire Bill Moyer and his Backbone Campaign colleagues should remake the United States and

Talk Nation Radio: Ann Wright on the Women’s Boat to Gaza and Being Kidnapped by Israel in International Waters
https://soundcloud.com/davidcnswanson/talk-nation-radio-ann-wright-on-womens-boat-to-gaza-kidnapped-by-israel-in-international-waters Ann Wright is a retired U.S. State Department official and army colonel who resigned in 2003 in protest of the war on Iraq. She’s

Delusions of worthy wars
by Nicolas J S Davies Fifteen years ago, on October 19th 2001, Donald Rumsfeld addressed B-2 bomber crews at Whiteman AFB in Missouri, as they

Pine Gap ‘THE POISONED HEART OF AUSTRALIA’
On protests and IPAN Conference 2016 by Chris White October 11 With the revanchist Trump, and Obama and Clinton daily

Appendix
Resource Guide Peace Almanac – https://worldbeyondwar.org/calendar/ Mapping Military Madness Update 2015 – https://worldbeyondwar.org/mapping-military-madness-2015-update/ Where Your Income Tax Money Really Goes- https://www.warresisters.org/resources/pie-chart-flyers-where-your-income-tax-money-really-goes Peace Science Digest –

Conclusion
War is always a choice and it is always a bad choice. It is a choice that always leads to more war. It is not

Accelerating The Transition To An Alternative Security System
World Beyond War intends to accelerate the movement toward ending war and establishing a peace system in two ways: massive education, and nonviolent action to
