Video: Human Rights in Yemen and Canada’s Role
Video with Atiaf Alwazir, Catherine Pappas, and Rachel Small.
Transpartisan Letter to President Biden on the U.S. Global Posture Review and Closing Military Bases Abroad to Improve National and International Security
Dear President Joseph Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris, Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III, National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan, Members of Congress,
Trump & Biden’s Secret Bombing Wars
Unbeknownst to many Americans, the U.S. military and its allies are engaged in bombing and killing people in other countries on a daily basis.
Blinken Waves Guns, Promising Peace
U.S. Secretary of State, and supporter of wars in Iraq, Libya, Syria, and Ukraine, a man who once backed dividing Iraq into three countries, proponent of not really ending endless wars, cofounder of revolving-door dealer in shameless profiteering from government connections for weapons companies WestExec Advisors, Antony Blinken made a speech on Wednesday.
Video of Webinar on Fasting for Justice
Watch our webinar from February 27, 2021, to learn more about this powerful tool for justice from those who have used it to campaign against violence, and for prisoner justice, climate action, and demilitarization.
Talk World Radio: Eli Clifton: Weapons Funding in Government
This week on Talk World Radio: Who funds so-called foreign relations experts and why?
Video of Webinar: The Journey to a World Free of Nuclear Weapons
The Florida Peace & Justice Alliance hosted this webinar on “The journey to a world free of nuclear weapons – where we are and how you can get involved.”
Trump’s ‘Pivot to Asia’ To ‘Make America Great Again’ Setting the Stage for a New Clash of Civilizations
India’s capital New Delhi burned in the last week of February 2020 as US President Donald Trump pivoted to India. Visiting the world’s largest and increasingly tattered ‘democracy’, Trump sold among other things, over USD 3 billion worth of weaponry to Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
World BEYOND War Podcast: Activism and the Imagination with Vanessa Veselka and Rivera Sun
By Marc Eliot Stein, February 28, 2021 World BEYOND War · Activism and the Imagination with Vanessa Veselka and Rivera Sun In the latest episode
How We Got The Bikini And Learned To Hate The Bomb
“Castle Bravo” Nuclear Blast Reverberates 67 Years Later.
World BEYOND War Launches Alumni Network
World BEYOND War is launching an alumni network for all past participants in its online courses. (The fastest way to get in is to register for the course beginning on March 1st!)
Biden’s Reckless Syria Bombing Is Not the Diplomacy He Promised
The February 25 U.S. bombing of Syria immediately puts the policies of the newly-formed Biden administration into sharp relief.
The USA Today Makes Major Contribution to Foreign Policy Debate
The USA Today, drawing on the work of the Cost of War Project, Quincy Institute, David Vine, William Hartung, and others, has gone beyond the limits of every other big corporate U.S. media outlet, and beyond what any member of the U.S. Congress has done, in a big new series of articles on wars, bases, and militarism.
New Report Reveals Canada’s Planned Fighter Jet Purchase Will Top $77B
A report produced by the No Fighter Jets Coalition estimates that the real cost of the planned purchase of 88 new fighter jets by the Canadian government will total $77 billion.
The Illegal Arms Trade and Israel
An Israeli documentary film called The Lab was made in 2013. It was shown in Pretoria and Cape Town, Europe, Australia and the US and won numerous awards, even including at the Tel Aviv International Documentary Film Festival.
U.S. Spends 11 Times What China Does on Military Per Capita
A very common way to compare countless other measurements is per capita, and this seems valuable to me too, when it comes to military spending.
What Planet Is NATO Living On?
The February meeting of NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) Defense Ministers, the first since President Biden took power, revealed an antiquated, 75-year-old alliance that, despite its military failures in Afghanistan and Libya, is now turning its military madness toward two more formidable, nuclear-armed enemies: Russia and China.
A Century Without War Is Needed to Survive Environmental Threats
Huge military budgets will not protect us from extinction. Nations must redirect spending towards human security and peacekeeping now.
The EU Military Sector’s Carbon Footprint
Militaries are frequently exempt from publicly reporting their greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and there is currently no consolidated public reporting of GHG emissions for the national militaries of the European Union.
Zoom in on March 1: “The Arrest of Meng Wanzhou & the New Cold War on China”
March 1 marks the resumption of hearings in Vancouver in the extradition trial of Meng Wanzhou. It also marks an event by her supporters in Canada, determined to block her deportation to the USA where she would stand trial again on fraud charges that could potentially put her in jail for over 100 years.
UN Security Council to Discuss the Implications of Climate Change for World Peace on Tuesday
Agence France-Presse reports that the 15-member United Nations Security Council will hold a video-conference summit this coming Tuesday February 23 to discuss the impact of “global warming on world peace.”
När Robotar Bestämmer Över Liv Och Död / When Robots Decide on Life and Death
Autonomous weapon systems can make killing both more convenient and cheaper. Now the world may face a new arms race and an international ban is urgent, according to the peace movement. But the Swedish government’s line is a question mark.
Canadians Recruited for Israeli War Crimes
Not only are the actions of the Israeli military being recognized as illegal, but their recruitment as well.
WBW News & Action: 35 militaries that should get out of Afghanistan
Read WBW’s biweekly e-newsletter.
A Global Demand to 35 Governments: Get Your Troops Out of Afghanistan / A Thank You to 6 That Already Have
The governments of Albania, Armenia, Australia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Belgium, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Czechia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Mongolia, Netherlands, North Macedonia, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Turkey, Ukraine, UK, and US all still have troops in Afghanistan and need to remove them.
An Open Letter to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau Regarding Haiti
It’s time for the Canadian government to stop propping up a repressive and corrupt dictatorship in Haiti.
Video of Webinar: For Peace in Korea, No More War Drills!
Webinar on the 60-plus year history of the costly and provocative annual US-ROK combined military exercises, and why it’s critical to end them to achieve peace on the Korean Peninsula.
Volunteer Spotlight: Runa Ray
World BEYOND War’s Volunteer Spotlight for February 2021 features Runa Ray, a fashion designer, environmentalist, peace activist, and member of the California chapter.
Talk Nation Radio: Pablo Domíngues on Defeating a Military Base
This week on Talk Nation Radio, a successful recent campaign to prevent the construction of a new military base in the mountains in Europe.
Video: How We Get to a World BEYOND War
New video with Leah Bolger, President of World BEYOND War.
