VIDEO: Dr. Yurii Sheliazhenko on Ukraine Crisis: Causes, Impact, & Future
Watch this latest video from WBW Board Member in Ukraine Yurii Sheliazhenko.
Japan Declares Okinawa a “Combat Zone”
On 23 December last year, the Japanese Government announced in the event of a “Taiwan Contingency” the US military would set up a string of attack bases in the “southwest islands” of Japan with the help of the Japanese Self-Defense Forces.
VIDEO: Webinar: In Conversation with Máiread Maguire
Since receiving the Nobel Peace prize, Máiread has continued to work to promote dialogue, peace and disarmament both in Northern Ireland and around the world.
Military Spending | Foreign Policy Primer For U.S. Congressional Candidates
Hosted by Ryan Black of RootsAction and ProgressiveHub, guests Lindsay Koshgarian of the National Priorities Project, David Swanson of RootsAction and World BEYOND War, and Khury Petersen-Smith, Middle East Fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies explore and discuss out-of-control Pentagon spending and the military budget.
Some of the Voices of Peace on the Streets of Japan Immediately After the Invasion of Ukraine
Ever since the Russian government started its attack on Ukraine on the 24th of February, large numbers of people have gathered on streets in Russia, Europe, the U.S., Japan, and other regions of the world to show their solidarity with the people of Ukraine and demand that Russia withdraw its forces.
VIDEO: How to Think About Ukraine
Watch World BEYOND War’s David Swanson speak on ‘How to Think About Ukraine’ in an event in Washington, D.C.
How the U.S. Has Empowered and Armed Neo-Nazis in Ukraine
Troubling and dangerous U.S. relationship with the Azov Battalion and other neo-Nazi and white supremacist groups in Ukraine explored.
Stop Padding the Pentagon’s Budget, 86 Groups Tell Biden
Eighty-six national and state organizations pen a letter to President Biden calling to lower the amount of military spending in his Fiscal Year 2023 budget request.
Talk World Radio: Now That War Victims and Burn Pits Matter, Meet Iraqis Who Live Near Burn Pits
This week on Talk World Radio, we’re talking about burn pits. Our guest Kali Rubaii is an assistant professor of anthropology at Purdue University, researching the environmental health impacts of war.
A Guide for Peace in Ukraine: A Humanist and Nonviolent Proposal from Portugal
The Centre for Humanist Studies “Exemplary Actions” is disseminating a non-violent proposal for the restoration of peace in Ukraine, inviting citizens and non-governmental organisations who identify with it to sign it and send it to the Russian, Ukrainian and American embassies alongside other organizations in order to produce a popular outcry capable of influencing the course of events.
Video: Putin, Biden and Zelenskyy, Take Peace Talks Seriously!
Speaking in Kyiv under Russian bombardment, Yurii Sheliazhenko explains how a perspective of nonviolent global governance in a future world without armies and borders will help to deescalate Russia-Ukraine and East-West conflict threatening nuclear apocalypse.
Marching, Singing, and Chanting for Peace
About 150 Montrealers, armed variously with dogs, placards and strollers took to the streets near Parc LaFontaine on March 6, to demand a stop to NATO expansion and peace in Ukraine.
Russia’s Demands Have Changed
One way to negotiate peace would be for Ukraine to offer to meet all of Russia’s demands and, ideally, more, while making demands of its own for reparations and disarmament.
Video of Webinar: The Russia-Ukraine War and the Imperative of Organizing for Peace
The latest from peace activists about the current moment. How are we organizing to end the war between Ukraine and Russia?
Video: Rachel Small at Rally for Peace in Ukraine
Watch World BEYOND War Canada Organizer Rachel Small at rally for peace in Ukraine on March 6, 2022.
WBW News & Action: Abolition of War or of Humanity
Read our email newsletter from March 7, 2022.
The EU is Wrong to Arm Ukraine. Here’s Why
Weapons won’t bring stability – they will fuel further destruction and death. The EU must back diplomacy, demilitarisation and peace.
WBW Cameroon Advances Inclusion of Women and Youth in Peace Process
Below is a response from the Cameroon Minister of Women’s Empowerment and the Family, who received our report and congratulates us for the efforts made in the inclusion of women and youth in the peace processes in Cameroon.
How the West Paved the Way for Russia’s Nuclear Threats Over Ukraine
Western commentators who rush to condemn Putin’s nuclear madness would do well to remember Western nuclear madness of the past, argues Milan Rai.
Finland and Sweden Should Remain Outside NATO and Pursue a Policy of Peace
The most important task of foreign and defence policy is to reduce threats to one’s own country in a way that creates security in all countries through diplomacy and cooperation on equal terms.
40 Things We Can Do and Know for People in Ukraine and the World
In light of the recent events in Ukraine, here are important things to know and do about their current situation.
VIDEO: Webinar: In Conversation with Malalai Joya
In this wide-ranging conversation, Malalai Joya takes us through the trauma that has engulfed her country from the Soviet invasion in 1979 to the rise of the first Taliban regime in 1996 through to the 2001 US-led invasion and the Taliban’s subsequent return in 2021.
SOARING: The Harms and Risks of Fighter Jets and Why Canada Must Not Buy a New Fleet
As the Trudeau government plans to buy 88 new fighter jets for a price tag of $19 billion, the second most expensive procurement in Canadian history, WILPF Canada is sounding the alarm.
“Let Them Kill as Many as Possible” – United States Policy Toward Russia and its Neighbors
In April 1941, four years before he was to become President and eight months before the United States entered World War II, Senator Harry Truman of Missouri reacted to the news that Germany had invaded the Soviet Union: “If we see that Germany is winning the war, we ought to help Russia; and if that Russia is winning, we ought to help Germany, and in that way let them kill as many as possible.”
Ukrainians Are Nonviolently Resisting War
In his State of the Union address, U.S. President Joe Biden praised unarmed Ukrainians stopping tanks. He did not praise them enough. Nonviolent resistance to oppression, occupation, and invasion is more likely to succeed than violent; the successes tend to be longer lasting; and — added benefit — the chance of nuclear war is decreased rather than increased.
Yurii Sheliazhenko on Democracy Now from Kyiv
We go to Kyiv to speak with Yurii Sheliazhenko, executive secretary of the Ukrainian Pacifist Movement, who says “support of Ukraine in the West is mainly military support” and reports that his country “focuses on warfare and almost ignores nonviolent resistance to war.”
Talk World Radio: Alfred de Zayas on Ukraine and the Rule of Law
This week on Talk World Radio, we’re talking with Alfred de Zayas, author of Building a Just World Order.
A Working Class Internationalism Is the Only Path to Survival
The damning evidence in the latest #IPCC report highlights so much more than further proof of a planet in collapse. It says definitively in a time of grotesque border & energy imperialism, supremacy & capitalism that a working class internationalism is the only path to survival.
RAND Corporation Urged Creation of the Horrors You’re Seeing in Ukraine
In 2019, the RAND Corporation tentacle of the U.S. Military Industrial Congressional “Intelligence” Media Academic “Think” Tank Complex published a report claiming to have “conducted a qualitative assessment of ‘cost-imposing options’ that could unbalance and overextend Russia.”
