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AUDIO: David Swanson on Russia, Ukraine, and War Madness
John and Michelle catch up with David Swanson, executive director of World BEYOND War, to talk about the latest developments with NATO and conflict zones around the world.
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Read Glen Ford
Someone asked me the other day for advice on collecting the best essays of the past 20 years. I recommended the new collection of Glen Ford’s called The Black Agenda.
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AUDIO: Veterans For Peace: Panel Discusses VFP Nuclear Posture Review, A Plan for Peace
While the Biden Administration and the military develop their own Nuclear Posture Review which will more than likely support nuclear saber rattling and expansion of the madness of U.S. nuclear weapons, Veterans for Peace has developed an alternative Nuclear Posture Review, an NPR that considers humanity.
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Organizations Call for Elimination of “Launch on Warning” Land-Based Nuclear Missiles in the United States
More than 60 national and regional organizations on Wednesday issued a joint statement calling for the elimination of the 400 land-based nuclear missiles now armed and on hair-trigger alert in the United States.
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Video: David Swanson on RT Regarding Guantanamo
A video from Russia TV on January 11, 2022.
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Global Civil Society Urges to Stop Saber-Rattling over Ukraine and Negotiate Sustainable Peace
Peace on Earth should come first before political ambitions.
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Talk World Radio: Robert Fantina on Iran and Non-Agreements
This week on Talk World Radio, we’re talking about the difficulty the U.S. government has in ceasing to threaten war on Iran or even committing to uphold future commitments.
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Hey, Hey, USA! How Many Bombs Did You Drop Today?
The Pentagon has finally published its first Airpower Summary since President Biden took office nearly a year ago.
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Treaties, Constitutions, and Laws Against War
Here is a collection of international treaties that make wars and even the threat of war illegal, national constitutions that make wars and various activities that facilitate wars illegal, and laws that make killing illegal with no exceptions for the use of missiles or the scale of the slaughter
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Jean Stevens Continues to Ring the Bell for Peace
“May the wisdom of peace become the dominant call in 2022.” Jean Stevens continues to ring the bell for the abolishment of nuclear weapons.
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New Year’s Resolutions I’d Like the United States to Make
Many of us make resolutions this time of year. These are some of the New Year’s Resolutions I’d like to see my country make.
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The Anti-War Movement Could Be Reignited By Gen Z
This op-ed argues that actively opposing imperialism and militarism is our collective responsibility.
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There Will Be Many Acts of Kindness on the Way Down
I live in a wealthy country, the U.S., and in a corner of it, a part of Virginia, not yet hit hard by fires or floods or tornados. In fact, until Sunday night, January 2nd, we’d had rather pleasant, almost summerlike weather most of the time since summer. Then, Monday morning, we got several inches of wet, heavy snow.
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The War on Terrorism Has Been Generating More Terrorism
Old news to a few, eternally new and baffling news to most.
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Magistrate Takes U.S. Navy to Task for Its Jets, Lies, and Secrecy
World BEYOND War has long supported efforts to stop noisy, polluting Navy jet flights over state parks in Washington State. Now a report by Chief United States Magistrate Justice J. Richard Creatura has got the Seattle Times editorial board proposing some sort of “compromise.”
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Volunteer Spotlight: Cymry Gomery
The January 2022 Volunteer Spotlight features Cymry Gomery, World BEYOND War’s Montréal chapter coordinator.
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The Pentagon and CIA Have Shaped Thousands of Hollywood Movies into Super Effective Propaganda
Propaganda is most impactful when people don’t think it’s propaganda, and most decisive when it’s censorship you never knew happened. When we imagine that the U.S. military only occasionally and slightly influences U.S. movies, we are extremely badly deceived.
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Primer on Foreign Policy for Candidates Published
RootsAction Education Fund has published a Primer on Foreign Policy for U.S. Congressional Candidates.
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Talk World Radio: Charles Lenchner on Refusing Military “Service”
This week on Talk World Radio we’re talking about refusing military “service.”
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Make Calls on January 11 for Julian Assange
Tackling Torture at the Top, a committee of Women Against Military Madness, a non-profit organization founded nearly 40 years ago, is sponsoring a call-in to Attorney General Merrick Garland to urge the Department of Justice to drop all charges and free Julian Assange.
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A Video to Thank Our Supporters
We’ve made a video for you, to express our thanks, and we wish you a happy new year!
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Video: David Swanson on RT: The 2021 State of Things
Polling young people and weeding through media spin.
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Surveillance Concerns: The Good, the Bad, and the Xenophobic
It seems to me that we should talk about the surveillance of people separately from talking about international cyber-attacks and militarism.
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Top 10 From 2021
We’ve accomplished so much this year, and while it was hard to narrow it down, we’ve created a video that highlights our top 10 victories and accomplishments of 2021. Take a look at what your support and participation helped make happen:
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Talk World Radio: Greta Zarro on Peace Activism in 2021
This week on Talk World Radio we’re talking about peace activism in 2021 and looking ahead to 2022.
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For an Era of Peace: Ongoing History of an Initiative to Abolish War as a Constitutional Precept in Chile.
We ask that the human right to peace be enshrined.
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WBW Podcast Episode 31: Dispatches from Amman with Matthew Petti
Our fascinating and wide-ranging conversation covered the politics of water, the credibility of contemporary journalism, the status of refugee communities in Jordan from Palestine, Syria, Yemen and Iraq, the outlook for peace in an age of imperial decline, social conservatism and gender in Jordan, open source reporting, the effectiveness of antiwar activism and much more.