Video: David Swanson Discusses Afghanistan on the Santita Jackson Show
Here’s the Youtube.
Bombshell Report: Global Warming Poses a Threat to US Ammo
by Marc Kodack / The Center for Climate & Security, Environmentalist Against War, August 20, 2021 Higher Temperatures from Climate Change Can Deteriorate Stored
Patterson Deppen, America as a Base Nation Revisited
It was the spring of 2003 during the American-led invasion of Iraq. I was in second grade, living on a U.S. military base in Germany, attending one of the Pentagon’s many schools for families of servicemen stationed abroad. One Friday morning, my class was on the verge of an uproar. Gathered around our homeroom lunch menu, we were horrified to find that the golden, perfectly crisped French fries we adored had been replaced with something called “freedom fries.”
Build Bridges, Not Walls, A Journey to a World Without Borders
“Building Bridges, Not Walls,”border journalist, Todd Miller’s latest and tersest book yet, hits the ground running. And never stops. In the opening pages Miller describes an encounter with Juan Carlos on a desert road twenty miles north of the US-Mexico border.
Ex-Official Matthew Hoh, Who Resigned over Afghan War, Says U.S. Mistakes Helped Taliban Gain Power
“The only thing more tragic than what’s happened to the Afghan people is that in a few days America will have forgotten Afghanistan again,” says Matthew Hoh, a disabled combat veteran and former State Department official stationed in Afghanistan’s Zabul province who resigned in 2009 to protest the Obama administration’s escalation of the War in Afghanistan. He says much of the U.S.
Let’s Get Those Boots Off the Ground
Since World War II, U.S. soldiers have been stationed on U.S. military bases around the globe. Today, there are around 750 such bases in some eighty countries and colonies.
Ann Wright and Whistleblowers Discuss DISSENT: Voices of Conscience
This is one session of an online book club that Ann Wright is doing for World BEYOND War.
The “Fall” of Kabul Marks a Victory for Peace
In the US media, the unfolding drama in Afghanistan has largely focused on the Pentagon’s failure to prevail and questions about President Biden’s failure to respond. Did the US “cut-and-run,” abandoning an ally to a band of bloody religious fanatics?
Letter: The Purpose of Armies is War, Not Peace
Writers including Howard Zinn, Chalmers Johnson, Noam Chomsky and John Pilger have for decades warned that American militarist obsessions with wars to impose the US Empire upon the world would end in disaster.
Lies, Damn Lies, and What We’ve Been Told About Afghanistan
It’s far from the longest U.S. war. There was no peace before or after it. There is no after it until they end it — and bombing has always been most of what it is. It has had nothing to do with opposing terrorism.
Biden Could Have Spared Afghanistan and US 6 Months of Pointless War by Just Ending It
There are two things I suppose everyone would agree are true about the remarkable events of the past several weeks in Afghanistan.
STOP Militarisation of Space – New Zealand Rocket Lab Protest
It asks government and Space Industry CEO to refuse US military Space Missile payloads for warfare combat targeting. Speakers also expose dangers to health and environment from the proposed 100,000 satellites for civilian/military dual purpose.
Afghanistan: So What Do the Filthy Commie Peaceniks Say Now?
So, people get hurt when you stop waging wars, and peace is dangerous, and . . . and . . . well, women’s rights!
A Year of World BEYOND War Work in Ireland
You’ll want to check this out, not just as an example of what can be done, but also for the powerful images and poetry and prose included.
Town of Chesapeake Beach Tests Oysters from 23 Miles Away
Low PFAS results in oysters from remote testing location likely orchestrated to cover for the Navy’s PFAS contamination of the Chesapeake Bay near the town.
Remember the Kellogg-Briand Pact
The West Suburban Peace Coalition (WSPC) has announced the winners of the 2021 Peace Essay Contest. Contestants submitted essays answering the question ‘How can we obey the Kellogg-Briand Pact of 1928, the law that outlawed war?’
Biden Must Call Off the B-52s Bombing Afghan Cities
U.S. military officials now believe Kabul, Afghanistan’s capital, could fall in one to three months.
How International Law Facilitates the Bombing of Civilians in the U.S. War on Terror
The Obama Administration constructed the concept of frontier territories—areas that are out of state control but fall within a state’s territorial boundaries—to “sidestep legal constraints” in the use of military force and “cover up what many would consider extra-legal behavior” in U.S. drone warfare.
On Painting Daniel Hale: His Exquisite Burden
Painting a portrait takes time, to hurry is to court mistakes. My rule is to be passionate but patient, leaving time to ruminate as I struggle to get the precise glint in the eye, curve the lips just so, and shape the highlight on the bridge of the nose to fit its contour.
How the Nuclear Weapons Industry Is Dominating Think Tank Research
A recent study finds that all major institutions working on nuke policy are getting funds from companies with a vested interest in it.
Please Join Us in Honoring David Hartsough
Please join us in honoring David Hartsough with the institute’s 2021 Clarence B. Jones Award for Kingian Nonviolence. The award ceremony will take place as an online webinar on Thursday, August 26, from 11:45am to 1:30pm.
Video: Ann Wright and Whistleblowers Discuss DISSENT: Voices of Conscience
This is one session of an online bookclub that Ann Wright is doing for World BEYOND War.
Red tank tracks painted at London, Ont. MP offices and home of General Dynamics president
The groups World Beyond War, People for Peace London and Labour Against the Arms Trade are mentioned in a news release announcing the move.
Activists Paint Tank Tracks to Doors of Weapons Dealers
Activists across Canada mark anniversary of Yemen school bus massacre at weapons manufacturers and politicians’ offices, demand Canada stop arming Saudi Arabia.
Talk World Radio: Danny Sjureson on What the U.S. Military Is Doing in Africa
This week on Talk World Radio: Danny Sjursen.
Learning From Vamik Volkan
A new film by Molly Castelloe called “Vamik’s Room,” introduces the viewer to Vamik Volkan and psychoanalysis of international conflict.
BREAKING: Activists protest at Lockheed Martin facility on anniversary of Yemen school bus massacre, demand Canada stop arming Saudi Arabia
Activists are protesting outside Lockheed Martin’s Dartmouth facility in Halifax, Canada to mark the third anniversary of the Yemen school bus massacre.
BREAKING: On the anniversary of Yemen school bus massacre, activists in London Ontario mark the complicity of General Dynamics Land Systems and the Liberal government in war crimes against Yemeni civilians, and demand that Canada stop arming Saudi Arabia
Activists left symbolic red tank tracks in front of the home of Danny Deep, President of General Dynamics Land Systems in London, as well as at the offices of Liberal MPs Peter Fragiskatos (London North Centre) and Kate Young (London West), to mark the third anniversary of the Yemen school bus massacre.
