By Ann Wright, March 21, 2019 While U.S.-North Korean contact is stalled, relations between North Korea and South Korea continue to increase. Encouraging worldwide support for a peace agreement for the Korean peninsula, a consortium of four international women’s groups […]
Dear Friends, “Salam (peace)!” is how Afghans greet one another, some of them simultaneously placing a hand over their hearts. But, while everyone including Afghans wants peace, the Afghan Peace Volunteers and I have observed that the human species appears […]
By Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers, March 7, 2019 We just returned from nine days in Iran with a 28-person peace delegation organized by CODE PINK. It is clear that people in Iran want two things: To be respected as […]
By David Swanson, March 1, 2019 Obviously many of us are both. I have zero use for either empire or war. But I’m using those tags as shorthand for two groups that sometimes unite and sometimes do not in their […]
By Joseph Essertier, February 20, 2019 Event: “Now More than Ever, It Is Time To Remove All the Military Bases!” (Ima koso subete no gunji kichi wo tekkyo saseyou! Place: Yomitan Village Locality Promotion Center, Okinawa, Japan Time: Sunday, February […]
From Press TV: The U.S. President Donald Trump has defended his decision to withdraw troops from Syria, claiming that the U.S.-led coalition succeeded in taking nearly all territories held by Daesh terrorists. Trump, however; added that the troops would be […]
By Joseph Essertier, January 24, 2019 From Counterpunch Warmbier Was a Victim Otto Warmbier enjoyed New Year’s Eve in 2015 in Pyongyang a few weeks after his 21st birthday. In a country with freedom of expression that is not at […]
From RT America, January 21, 2019 Rick Sanchez discusses a recent decimating attack that wiped out an entire company of Afghan Security Forces, part of a consistent pattern of the retreat of US and its proxies in the face of […]
By Bob Koehler, January 3, 2019 Circle the wagons! Apparently what’s under assault is war itself, or so the Establishment believes, in the wake of the shocking announcement by the president that he plans to withdraw all 2,000 U.S. troops […]
Of the United Nations’ 18 major human rights treaties, the United States is party to 5, fewer than any other nation on earth, except Bhutan (4), and tied with Malaysia, Myanmar, and South Sudan, a country torn by warfare since […]
“We can have wars for oil, or a moderate climate and an inhabitable planet. We cannot have both.”
Why stopping wars is essential for stopping climate change
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War isn’t just a waste of resources that could be used to tackle climate change, but is itself a significant cause of environmental harm, argues Elaine Graham-LeighThis article is by Stephen Kinzer, author of a book about the successful and disastrous US/UK 1953 covert overthrow of Iran’s elected leadership. Kinzer is spreading the word that the same crime is being carried out today in Venezuela.
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We used to overthrow foreign leaders the old-fashioned way: with our military. The new approach is just as egregious — and ineffective.Greta Zarro on the untold damage left behind by NATO’s intervention in Yugoslavia.
‘Surrounded by the Fire of War’: Remembering NATO’s 1999 Aggression in Yugoslavia
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“NATO’s war didn’t leave Yugoslavia any better off. It tore apart families and left the region straddled with debt, picking up the pieces.”Ann Wright: despite setbacks between North Korea and USA, there’s plenty of momentum towards peace in Korea.
Korea Peace Now! Cooperation Continuing Despite Stalled Dialogue With US - World Beyond War . . .
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By Ann Wright, March 21, 2019 While U.S.-North Korean contact is stalled, relations between North Korea and South Korea continue to increase. Encouraging worldwide support for a peace agreement for the Korean peninsula, a consortium of four international women’s groups …The US Department of Defense emits more CO2 than 160 other nations combined. #WarHurtsEarth That's why we're saying NO to NATO, the largest military alliance in the world. Join us to unwelcome NATO's arrival in DC this April 3. #NoMoreNato worldbeyondwar.org/notonato/
