The president’s erratic behavior and his encouragement of the attack on the Capitol building and democracy last week scared Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi enough to make her worry publically about the fact that he has the legal sole authority to order the launch of nuclear weapons.
World BEYOND War has joined with organizations, grassroots groups, and individuals across Canada to call upon the Government of Canada to have Parliament debate and hold public hearings on the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons and on Canada’s role in advancing global nuclear disarmament.
The movement to abolish nuclear weapons has been around for a long time, taking a tortuous path through highs and lows. Another high will be achieved next week when the UN Nuclear Ban Treaty enters into force.
How do we get to peace with North Korea?
It is time for the adults in the room to sit the out-of-control and spoiled child down and inform him that he does not own the universe. No, Elon, you are not going to be the master of Mars.
A Hawke’s Bay peace advocate says the sight of 100 soldiers marching down Dannevirke’s main street as part of a charter parade earlier in December was “inappropriate” so close to Christmas.
Alison Cole is a former researcher and activist living in Portland, Oregon. She is working with a coalition of community organizations to demilitarize their local law enforcement agencies.
In this World BEYOND War webinar, Yale Magrass and Charles Derber, authors of the new book “Glorious Causes”, consider how elites galvanize people for war and bring them to adopt political-economic identities which contradict their rational self-interest.
With more than 100 events and several thousand participants, Germany’s nationwide Day of Action of the initiative “Disarmament instead of Armament” – under Corona conditions – was a great success.
