WBW News & Action: Don’t Iraq Iran
Read our email newsletter from February 5, 2024. #WorldBEYONDWar
What Does the Swamp Actually Look Like?
The business of war is very well organized. How does it influence U.S. government? Its main tools are lobbying firms, think tanks, law firms, and nonprofit pressure groups. The following map demonstrates how. #WorldBEYONDWar
Video: The Brain and Peace
How can insights from neuroscience advance peacebuilding? #WorldBEYONDWar
Let’s Shut Down Travis Air Force Base
This Wednesday, we are returning! We hope to have a presence at Travis every month until a Permanent Ceasefire is obtained. #WorldBEYONDWar
For God’s Sake Joe, What the Hell Are You Doing?
U.S. military attacks on Syria, Iraq and Yemen and complicity in Israel’s genocide in Gaza and settler violence in the West Bank — Biden’s Actions Are Dangers to the World. #WorldBEYONDWar
Workshops on Thinking About War and Doing Something About It
On February 3, WBW Advisory Board Member Maria Santelli and I led workshops at Southpaw Cafe in Blacksburg, Virginia, for students at Virginia Tech. #WorldBEYONDWar
Forum National des Jeunes pour la Paix et la Sécurité au Sénégal / National Youth Forum for Peace and Security in Senegal
On Saturday 27 January 2024, Senegal for a World BEYOND War held its first meeting of the National Youth Forum for Peace and Security. #WorldBEYONDWar
In Toronto, Activists Take Over Office of Israeli-Canadian Tech Fund
Toronto peace activists disrupted the Yonge and Eglinton business operations of Awz Ventures, an Israeli-Canadian venture capital firm that invests exclusively in Israeli security and intelligence start-ups. #WorldBEYONDWar
80 Organizations Tell Biden No to Yet More Wars
We urge you to lead with diplomacy, by pressing for a ceasefire in Gaza, to address the source of the violence and prevent further escalation. #WorldBEYONDWar
The U.S. Toppling of Imran Khan
Imran Khan’s “sin” was to be too cooperative with Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping, while also seeking normal relations with the United States. #WorldBEYONDWar
National Pentagon Radio Devotes Entire Minutes to Conversion
One just has to hope what makes it into such reports is enough to convert some person out there who has never heard of conversion. #WorldBEYONDWar
The Urgent Need to Attack Iran Has Been Falsely Advertised for 20 Years
For a couple of decades now, the very worst people in Washington, D.C., have pushed hard for a war on Iran. Some high points have come in 2007, 2015, 2017, and 2024. Each time it has been absolutely critical to attack Iran at once. #WorldBEYONDWar
Poem for a World BEYOND War
Michelle Vong is 2023 Oakland Youth Poet Vice Laureate. She recited this poem at a World BEYOND War event in Oakland, California, on January 28, 2024. #WorldBEYONDWar
Military Moral Injury: Dr. Kelly Denton-Borhaug
A fascinating conversation with Dr. Kelly Denton-Borhaug. #WorldBEYONDWar
WBW at 10: A Look Inside (Podcast)
Special episode of the World BEYOND War podcast: a look inside our organization’s day-to-day work, with guest host Maria Santelli.
The Budget Is the Skeleton of the State
U.S. war spending for FY 2024 is nearing $1 Trillion. Spending on nuclear weapons, while only a small percentage of this total, is at the highest level on record. #WorldBEYONDWar
Smearing Ceasefire Protesters, Pelosi Combines Devotion to Israel with Cold-War Mania
Grasping at straws, Pelosi evidently hopes for some political benefit by casting blame on Russia for how Biden’s deference to Israel has met with strong public opposition and erosion of support for re-election. #WorldBEYONDWar
Wars Get More Money Than We’re Capable of Understanding
We could do all kinds of unimagined things, insane-sounding things, to prevent mass killing if we were willing to spend on the prevention of mass killing the kind of sums that are spent on the mass killing. #WorldBEYONDWar
World BEYOND War Supports Gaza Ceasefire March to Port of Napier New Zealand
In photos is World BEYOND War Vice President Liz Remmerswaal. #WorldBEYONDWar
Madison for a World BEYOND War Holds Event in Wisconsin State Capitol to Demand a Ceasefire and No More Weapons to Israel
Madison for a World BEYOND War and allies gathered in the Wisconsin state capitol on Friday to urge Wisconsin’s U.S. senators to vote No on the Biden administration’s request for another $14 billion of military “aid” for Israel. #WorldBEYONDWar
PBS: Pentagon Broadcasting Service?
Viewers of the PBS NewsHour who are media literate have long recognized the pro-U.S. bias in its coverage of U.S. foreign policy. #WorldBEYONDWar
International Court of Justice Rules That Israel Must Stop Killing Palestinians
The International Court of Justice has ruled that Israel must cease its warmaking in Gaza, and that the case charging Israel with genocide must proceed. #WorldBEYONDWar
In Canada, Members of Parliament Among Over 250 People Hunger Striking for Arms Embargo on Israel
Over 250 Canadians across 11 provinces, including two sitting Members of Parliament, are on hunger strike calling on the Canadian government to enforce an arms embargo on Israel. #WorldBEYONDWar
Do We Value Anything Else as Much as Military Spending?
The 2020 Democratic Party Platform said that Democrats would reduce military spending: “We can maintain a strong defense and protect our safety and security for less.” Right on! Get out the vote! #WorldBEYONDWar
Trudeau Government Accused Of Sowing Confusion Over Israel Military Exports
“This is not how a state that claims to have strong protections in place for the export of arms should be behaving.” Oh Canada. #WorldBEYONDWar
Raising Public Awareness of U.S. Military Spending
Audio of discussion with Sonali Kolhatkar and David Swanson on military budget and what could be done instead. #WorldBEYONDWar
Biden Must Choose Between a Ceasefire in Gaza and a Regional War
Biden can continue to give Israel carte-blanche to wipe out the people of Gaza, and watch as the region becomes further engulfed in flames, or he can listen to his own campaign staff, who insist on a ceasefire. #WorldBEYONDWar
Robert C. Koehler: The Need for Understanding Never Stops
War is not required by a particular lifestyle or standard of living because any lifestyle can be changed, because unsustainable practices must end by definition with or without war, and because war actually impoverishes societies that use it. #WorldBEYONDWar
The Final Bombing Campaign of Afghanistan
This new video focuses on the last attempts by U.S. Presidents to bomb the Afghans into submission. It is a tragic story of a military empire using massive weapons in a doomed attempt to force its will upon an indigenous people. #WorldBEYONDWar
Look at This Ceasefire Billboard in Little Rock, Arkansas
Arkansas Coalition for Peace and Justice (ACPJ) has put up a billboard that reads “Almost Half of the people in Gaza are CHILDREN!! Text Ceasefire to 209.285.1017 peaceforgaza.org.” #WorldBEYONDWar
