Will The Biden Team Be Warmongers Or Peacemakers?
Biden must understand that the young voters who turned out in unprecedented numbers to put him in the White House have lived their whole lives under this neoliberal system, and did not vote for “more of the same.”
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Celebrate Armistice Day: Wage Peace With Renewed Energy
Horrified by the industrial slaughter of millions of soldiers and civilians, the people of the U.S. and the world initiated campaigns to outlaw war once and for all … Tragically, however, the last century has been marked by war after war, and growing militarism.
Who Is The Enemy? Defund Militarism And Fund Institutions Of Social Value In Canada
Canada needs a conversion to a green economy, away from fossil fuel production, to include a fair transition and retraining of displaced workers. There is a need for extraordinary investment in the new economy to enable a move towards climate change mitigation, environmental sustainability and social justice. We do not need increased investment in things that have no redeeming social value by endlessly preparing for war.
Blasting of Explosives
Chrispah Munyoro is a student of Applied Art and Design, Graphics and Website Programming at Kwekwe Polytechnic College in Zimbabwe. Munyoro is a talented writer, journalist and a dedicated Design Artist. She is natural linguist, fluent in many languages.
Why Is South Africa Complicit In Turkish War Crimes?
Although it accounts for less than one percent of world trade, the war business has been estimated to account for 40 to 45 percent of global corruption. This extraordinary estimate of 40 to 45 percent comes from – of all places — the Central Intelligence Agency (the CIA) via the US Department of Commerce.
Talk Nation Radio: Steven Youngblood On Peace Journalism
This week on Talk Nation Radio, we’re discussing peace journalism. Our guest Steven Youngblood is the founding director of the Center for Global Peace Journalism at Park University in Parkville, Missouri, where he is a communications and peace studies professor.
In 1940, the United States Decided to Rule the World
Stephen Wertheim’s Tomorrow, The World examines a shift in elite U.S. foreign-policy thinking that took place in mid-1940. Why in that moment, a year and a half before the Japanese attacks on the Philippines, Hawaii, and other outposts, did it become popular in foreign-policy circles to advocate for U.S. military domination of the globe?
November 11 1918
Why o why
O please tell me why
Did you stand in the trenches And wait to die?
WILPF Fresno’s Jean Hays Interviews Alice Slater On KFCF Radio
Jean Hays of the WILPF US’s Fresno Branch interviews Alice Slater on KFCF radio’s October 28, 2020 “Stir It Up” about the UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, which has been ratified by 50 countries as of October 24, 2020.
World BEYOND War Podcast Episode 19: Emerging Activists On Five Continents
Episode 19 of the World BEYOND War podcast is a unique roundtable discussion with five young emerging activists in five continents: Alejandra Rodriguez in Colombia, Laiba Khan in India, Mélina Villeneuve in UK, Christine Odera in Kenya and Sayako Aizeki-Nevins in USA.
WBW News & Action: Events for Peace
Find upcoming events on the events list and map here. Most are online events that can be participated in from anywhere on earth.
Glory: The Deadliest Drug
Yale Magrass and Charles Derber’s latest book is called Glorious Causes: The Irrationality of Capitalism, War, and Politics. I hope people are reading it. I worry, because after Mom, apple pie, and shopping, what are more popular than capitalism, war, and politics?
Alice’s Nightmare in Drone Land
On Thursday, 33 people from New York, New Jersey, and Massachusetts organized by Upstate Drone Action blocked the gates at Hancock Air Field near Syracuse, NY.
Italian Defense Minister Guerini On St. Francis’s Footsteps
On St. Francis Day, the Minister of Defense Lorenzo Guerini (Democratic Party) sent the Frecce Tricolori fighters to fly over the Basilica of Assisi. “It is the strongest homage that our Italy has been able to pay to the Poverello (the little poor fellow), whom thousands of people turn to, while the pandemic aggravates poverty,” the Franciscan magazine wrote.
Ending Regime Change – In Bolivia And The World
Less than a year after the United States and the U.S.-backed Organization of American States (OAS) supported a violent military coup to overthrow the government of Bolivia, the Bolivian people have reelected the Movement for Socialism (MAS) and restored it to power.
Maryland, My Maryland! Test These Waters For PFAS
Last month the Maryland Department of the Environment released a report that found no cause for alarm regarding the presence of PFAS in the St. Mary’s River and its oysters near a navy base that dumped the substances into the water during routine fire-fighting exercises. The chemicals, per – and poly fluoroalkyl substances, are linked to cancer and fetal abnormalities.
Troops Out Of Germany And Down A Rabbit Hole
The lack of any peace candidate or peace party, combined with Trump’s tendency to only ever do the right things for insanely wrong reasons, and the virtual exclusion of all talk of peace from political discourse, means that troop withdrawals and war-alliance-dismantlings and even the ending of wars can all be treated as nefarious evil deeds, while anything that facilitates mass murder is good humanitarianism.
Effective January 22, 2021 Nuclear Weapons Will Be Illegal
Flash! Nuclear bombs and warheads have just joined landmines, germ and chemical bombs and fragmentation bombs as illegal weapons under international law, as on Oct. 24 a 50th nation, the Central American country of Honduras, ratified and signed a UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons.
Peter Kuznick on the Significance of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons
Peter Kuznick answered the following questions from Sputnik radio and agreed to let World BEYOND War publish the text.
WBW Publishes Guide to Using Billboards
Here is our guide to using billboards to generate media, membership, and activism — as put together by our Organizing Director Greta Zarro.
Talk Nation Radio: Yes, The U.S. Worked To Start The Soviet War On Afghanistan
xThis week on Talk Nation Radio, as we begin year number 20 of the U.S. war on Afghanistan that Obama pretended to end, Trump promised to end, and it seems every U.S. presidential candidate from here on out (including Trump again) will promise to end, we look at how exactly destroying Afghanistan got started over 40 years ago.
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Alan Britt, of the United States, has published over 3,000 poems nationally and internationally.
Historic Milestone: UN Treaty On The Prohibition Of Nuclear Weapons Reaches 50 Ratifications Needed For Entry Into Force
On October 24, 2020, the UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons reached the required 50 states parties for its entry into force, after Honduras ratified just one day after Jamaica and Nauru submitted their ratifications. In 90 days, the treaty will enter into force, cementing a categorical ban on nuclear weapons, 75 years after their first use.
Joint Base Andrews Contaminates Maryland Rivers And Creeks With PFAS Chemicals
Andrews, the “Home of Air Force 1” is the only base in the state known to poison both the Patuxent and the Potomac. PFAS may travel for miles. It contaminates fish and sickens people who consume it. Who knew?
New Report Reveals U.S. Special Forces Active In 22 African Countries
The US has roughly 6,000 military personnel scattered throughout the continent with military attachés outnumbering diplomats in many embassies across Africa.
Guess Who Arms Both Azerbaijan and Armenia
As with many wars around the world, the current war between Azerbaijan and Armenia is a war between militaries armed and trained by the United States. And in the view of some experts, the level of weapons purchased by Azerbaijan is a key cause of the war.
Canadian Military Plans CF-18 Warplane Monument At New Headquarters In Ottawa
As social movements around the world are calling for the removal of controversial statues, the Canadian military is planning a monument to a warplane …
Talk Nation Radio: David Vine on the United States of War
David Vine is Professor of Anthropology at American University whose books include Base Nation: How U.S. Military Bases Abroad Harm America and the World. David Vine’s latest book is called The United States of War: A Global History of America’s Endless Conflicts, From Columbus to the Islamic State.
