Trump escalated Obama’s bombing campaigns against the Taliban in Afghanistan and the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, and loosened U.S. rules of engagement regarding airstrikes that were predictably going to kill civilians.
The Biden administration should immediately reduce tensions with North Korea by working to resolve the root cause of the conflict: the longstanding 70-year-old Korean War.
By Gar Smith, Berkeley Daily Planet, January 28, 2021 The anti-war group World BEYOND War recently discovered its work had inspired a Swedish youth project
We blocked trucks outside Paddock Transportation International. Paddock ships armored vehicles to Saudi Arabia for the Saudi-led war on Yemen — or at least it tries to!
On January 22, 2021, the day the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons came into effect, we were honoured to sponsor an event hosted by the Canadian Foreign Policy Institute – The Threat of Nuclear Weapons: Why Canada Should Sign the UN Nuclear Ban Treaty featuring Noam Chomsky.
It took a variety of approaches to market the 2003 war on Iraq. For some it was to be a defense against an imagined threat. For others it was false revenge. But for Samantha Power it was philanthropy. She said at the time, “An American intervention likely will improve the lives of the Iraqis. Their lives could not get worse, I think it’s quite safe to say.” Needless to say, it wasn’t safe to say that.
Billboards are going up in Berlin that proclaim “Nuclear Weapons Are Now Illegal. Get Them Out of Germany!”
In this panel, three leading organizers present case studies of successful & diverse divestment models, including fossil fuel and weapons divestment.
David Swanson, Author and Executive Director of WorldBeyondWar.org, focuses on why war is immoral, endangers the planet, threatens our environment, impoverishes people, and consumes over $2 trillion each year.
