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Talk World Radio: Ned Dobos on Reasons Not to Keep a Standing Military
This week on Talk World Radio, we’re talking about whether it’s good or bad for a country to have a permanent military.
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Learning the Wrong Lessons from Ukraine
These lessons are popular, logical — even unquestionable truth in many minds — and catastrophically and demonstrably wrong.
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In an era of Climate Collapse, Canada is Doubling Down on Military Spending
Like policing, no amount of funding will ever be enough for the war hawks.
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VIDEO: Stop the War in Ukraine April 9 Online Rally
As the conflict in Ukraine rages on, we, the peace-loving people of the world, must raise our voices to demand a ceasefire and a negotiated settlement.
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Interview with Oleg Bodrov and Yurii Sheliazhenko
Interview conducted by International Peace Bureau’s Reiner Braun with Oleg Bodrov and Yurii Sheliazhenko on April 5, 2022.
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Greek Railroad Workers Block Delivery of U.S. Tanks to Ukraine
In a clear signal to the workers of Europe, railroad workers in Greece managed to block a shipment of U.S. tanks to Ukraine for more than two weeks.
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VIDEO: Peace Summit 2022: Breakout – Challenging the Ideology Behind Wealth & Militarism with David Swanson
David Swanson of World BEYOND War reveals the workings of the military- industrial complex.
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The Idea of a Clean and Efficient War is a Dangerous Lie
There is dominant propaganda that seems to suggest war can be conducted according to a set of acceptable, standardized, and abstract rules. It can’t.
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Bluenosing the Military Industrial Complex
Nova Scotia’s Maritime pride in her shipbuilding heritage has been called on to promote a new legacy for Lunenburg, according to CBC’s Brett Ruskin. The article entitled “Handcrafting history continues in Lunenburg as aerospace company builds parts for F-35 jet” implies that making jet parts in Lunenburg connects to the great Maritime tradition of shipbuilding.
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The Red Scare
In 1954 I attended Queens College during the years before Senator Joseph McCarthy finally met his comeuppance at the Army-McCarthy hearings after terrorizing Americans for years with accusations because of their political affiliations.
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WBW News & Action: Drop Banners Not Cluster Bombs
Read our email newsletter from April 4, 2022.
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The “Keep It Going” Bethesda Marathon to Be Sponsored by Lockheed-Martin
With fears looming of a negotiated settlement in Ukraine, participants are required to wear both blue and yellow “clearly visible and within a reasonable proximity to the correct shades of color.”
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Don’t Let a Mountain in Montenegro Be Lost to a War in Ukraine
Talk in Montenegro, as elsewhere, is much more NATO-friendly now. The Montenegrin government is intent on creating its international ground for training for more wars.
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Talk World Radio: Ruth McDonough on Unarmed Resistance in Western Sahara
This week on Talk World Radio we’re discussing the use of nonviolent activism in Western Sahara.
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VIDEO: Abolishing Nuclear Weapons Globally & Locally — A Webinar
Join the Divest Philly from the War Machine Coalition, CODEPINK, Peace Action, World BEYOND War, Philadelphia Green Party, and the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF) US for this webinar on “Abolishing Nuclear Weapons Globally & Locally.”
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What Can We Do in the U.S. for Ukraine? A Video Discussion with Rotary
The main presentation in this video begins 12 minutes in and is followed by Q&A.
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Bob Rabin Will Be Badly Missed
Vieques activist and community leader Robert “Bob” Rabin died on Monday, his wife, Nilda Medina, confirmed.
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CrossTalk on Ukraine: Negotiated End?
World BEYOND War Executive Director David Swanson condemning Russian warmaking on Russian TV.
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Demanding a Just Peace in Ukraine and the Abolition of All War
The Russian invasion of Ukraine has horrified people around the world and has, quite rightly, been widely condemned. But in the inevitably polarized and propaganda-laden wartime media environment, it has been remarkably difficult to go beyond that.
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Ukrainians Could Defeat a Russian Occupation by Scaling Up Unarmed Resistance
As scholars of nonviolent resistance, we see four key ways Ukrainians can organize and expand the civil resistance that’s already happening.
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The MADness of the Resurgent U.S. Cold War With Russia
The war in Ukraine has placed U.S. and NATO policy toward Russia under a spotlight, highlighting how the United States and its allies have expanded NATO right up to Russia’s borders, backed a coup and now a proxy war in Ukraine, imposed waves of economic sanctions, and launched a debilitating trillion-dollar arms race
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Talk World Radio: Milan Sekulović on Saving a Mountain in Montenegro
This week on Talk World Radio we’re discussing efforts by local residents to save a mountain in Montenegro from being turned into a military training ground.
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Protest Actions Across Canada Mark 7 Years of War in Yemen, Demand Canada End Arms Exports to Saudi Arabia
March 26 marked seven years of the war in Yemen, a war which has claimed the lives of almost 400,000 civilians. Protests in six cities across Canada held by the #CanadaStopArmingSaudi campaign marked the anniversary while demanding Canada ends its complicity in the bloodshed.
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VIDEO: Conversation with a Ukrainian Peace Activist in Kiev
I interview Yurii Sheliazhenko live from Kiev. Yurii is executive secretary of the Ukrainian Pacifist Movement and a board member of the European Bureau for Conscientious Objection and World Beyond War.
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Biden’s Unhinged Call for Regime Change in Russia
Ever since Joe Biden ended his speech in Poland on Saturday night by making one of the most dangerous statements ever uttered by a U.S. president in the nuclear age, efforts to clean up after him have been profuse.
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VIDEO: A Just Transition Away from the War Economy and Military-Industrial Complex is Possible
Our insatiable war economy is making all of us less safe—and the more we come to economically depend on it, the harder it is to transition away from it. But it can be done.
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Podcast Episode 34: Kathy Kelly and the Courage for Peace
“I was arrested for singing … I’ve been hauled off and left to swelter in paddy wagons for 7 hours, and hog-tied and somebody kneeled on me and I thought if I’d been another color and saying ‘I can’t breathe’ …” – Kathy Kelly
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Russian soldiers release Ukraine town’s Mayor and Agree to Leave after Protests
Russian forces agreed to leave town of Slavutych if those with arms handed them over to the mayor.
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Rock ‘n roll pour la paix / Rock ‘n Roll for Peace
About one hundred people marched for peace in Ukraine and Yemen on Saturday, March 26th, one of dozens of such rallies across Canada on that date.
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VIDEO: Rising Tensions Over Ukraine
In this edition of Spotlight, Press TV has conducted an interview with Yaroslav Zheleznyak and David Swanson to discuss the rising tensions over Ukraine.