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Escalation in Europe: The Guns of January with Koohan Paik-Mander
As new wars loom around the world, Koohan Paik-Mander shares the experience that always gives her strength as a peace activist: working with protestors in Jeju Island in Korea trying to stop a US military base from invading their natural paradise.
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Can We Learn Anything From Russian-Canadian Pacifists?
Tolstoy said the Doukhobors belonged to the 25th century.
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The War Is Good For You Books Are Getting Weirder
Christopher Coker’s Why War fits into a genre with Margaret MacMillan’s War: How Conflict Shaped Us, Ian Morris’s War: What Is It Good For?, and Neil deGrasse Tyson’s Accessory to War.
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Talk World Radio: Ken Mayers on Nuclear Posture Review
This week on Talk World Radio we’re discussing nuclear weapons and war with Ken Mayers from Veterans For Peace, which has — in anticipation of the Biden administration’s nuclear posture review — released its own nuclear posture review.
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For God’s Sake Boys, STOP THIS WAR S**T!!!
We demand true discussion, dialogue, diplomacy on steroids instead of war-mongering to save the lives of the innocent civilians that are at stake around the world.
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To Send Weapons and Troops to Ukraine You’d Have to Be a Stupid Son of a Biden
Have yall learned absolutely nothing? The U.S. government’s internal memos said that the only way to get Iraq to use its weapons if it even had any would be to attack it.
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Activists in Canada Build Construction Site on Pipeline Executives’ Front Lawns
This morning, Toronto supporters of the Wet’suwet’en land defense struggle against the Coastal Gaslink pipeline set up construction sites at the Toronto homes of TC Energy Board Chair Siim Vanaselja and Royal Bank of Canada Executive Doug Guzman.
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Nuclear Weapons Ban: WILPF Cameroon Celebrates First Year of Implementation
Guy Blaise Feugap, Director of the WILPF program and Coordinator of Cameroon For a World BEYOND War, emphasized the importance of this meeting one year after its entry into force and the role of Cameroon in the fight for disarmament.
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German Forum for Peace Ethics (FFE) Calls for the End of Nuclear Sharing
The Forum Friedensethik demands “an end to the stationing of U.S. nuclear bombs in Germany.”
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WBW News & Action: War Is Not Inevitable
Read World BEYOND War’s email newsletter from January 24, 2022.
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Munich Is Not in Ukraine: Appeasement Begins at Home
The word “Munich” — for me it calls up images of surfing in a giant park with nude sunbathers and nearby beer halls. But in U.S. news media it means the unconscionable failure to launch a war more quickly.
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New Yorkers Demand That U.S. Join Treaty on Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons
New Yorkers rallied at the New York Public Library and the United Nations on Friday in the bitter cold to demand that the United States join the TPNW.
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Video: Introduction | Foreign Policy Primer For U.S. Congressional Candidates
This RootsAction Zoom call from Wednesday January 19th is the first in a series of events promoting the release of the RootsAction Education Fund’s Foreign Policy Primer for U.S. Congressional Candidates.
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Open Letter – Let All Children Play in Ukraine and the Rest of the World, a Call for Peace
– Respect life
– De-escalate the situation
– Sign the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons
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Audio: Roots Action Creates Foreign Policy Primer for Congressional Candidates
Roots Action has compiled a primer for U.S. Congressional candidates on Foreign Policy.
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Video: David Swanson on War and Peace at Veterans For Peace New York City Meeting
Watch the video.
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Veterans For Peace Releases Nuclear Posture Review
The U.S.-based international organization Veterans For Peace has released its own assessment of the current global threat of nuclear war, ahead of the anticipated release of the Biden Administration’s Nuclear Posture Review.
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After a Year of Biden, Why Do We Still Have Trump’s Foreign Policy?
Each part of this foreign policy fiasco costs human lives and creates regional–even global–instability. In every case, progressive alternative policies are readily available. The only thing lacking is political will and independence from corrupt vested interests.
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Rejecting Risk: 101 Policies Against Nuclear Weapons
Rejecting Risk: 101 Policies against nuclear weapons shows 59 institutions with comprehensive policies against any investment in the nuclear weapon industry- the Hall of Fame.
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Canadian National Coalition Calls on Trudeau Government to Stop Arming Ukraine, End Operation UNIFIER and Demilitarize Ukraine Crisis
As Minister of Foreign Affairs Mélanie Joly is in Europe this week to speak to her European counterparts about the crisis between NATO and Russia over Ukraine, a Canadian coalition has released an open statement calling on the Minister to demilitarize and peacefully resolve the crisis.
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Nay to NATO
On January 12 2022, the Montréal WBW chapter welcomed Yves Engler to talk about NATO, NORAD and Nuclear weapons.
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Overthrowing Governments Is a Giant Failure
Successful government overthrows — the focus of a new book — turn out to usually be giant stinking disasters on their own terms.
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Vermont Governor’s Claim That He Is Powerless to Stop the F-35 Just Got Shown Up
Hawaii successfully protected its citizens from US Navy malfeasance.
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Talk World Radio: Jared Ball: The Rebranding of MLK
This week on Talk World Radio we’re talking about Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., media, activism, and related topics with Jared A. Ball, who is a Professor of Communication and Africana Studies at Morgan State University.
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VIDEO: Presentation on War and the Environment
By participants from Ngozi, Burundi, in World BEYOND War and Rotary Action Group for Peace course on Peace Education and Action for Impact.
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VIDEO: CrossTalk | Russia-NATO Impasse
Over the past two and half years Russia and NATO have agreed on very little, if anything.