Dr Alison Broinowski, AM, discusses the long proposed legislative reforms that would require parliamentary discussion prior to commitment of Australian forces to international deployment rather than the existing powers conferred solely on the prime minister and constitutionally on the governor general as commander in chief.
The war in Ukraine is both a wake up call about the folly of war and rare opportunity to move toward a more peaceful world.
It has become unbearable to observe the western media, in the grip of corrupt military contractors, wielding their undue influence on the unknowing victims of the media “news” reports as they publicly and shamelessly celebrate their enormous profits this year from the billions of dollars in weapons they are selling to keep the Ukraine war going.
We hold in our hands vast power to both create and destroy, the likes of which have never been seen in history.
On 23 December last year, the Japanese Government announced in the event of a “Taiwan Contingency” the US military would set up a string of attack bases in the “southwest islands” of Japan with the help of the Japanese Self-Defense Forces.
Watch World BEYOND War’s David Swanson speak on ‘How to Think About Ukraine’ in an event in Washington, D.C.
The Centre for Humanist Studies “Exemplary Actions” is disseminating a non-violent proposal for the restoration of peace in Ukraine, inviting citizens and non-governmental organisations who identify with it to sign it and send it to the Russian, Ukrainian and American embassies alongside other organizations in order to produce a popular outcry capable of influencing the course of events.
Western commentators who rush to condemn Putin’s nuclear madness would do well to remember Western nuclear madness of the past, argues Milan Rai.
A romanticized belief in violence renders people irrational to the point of hurting ourselves, over and over again.
