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 Marc Eliot Stein, March 15, 2019 We had just uploaded the exciting new second episode of World BEYOND War’s new podcast when the news came in that cast our roundtable in a terrible light. This episode features myself and […]
By Alan Knight, March 15, 2019 From 1899 to 1902, Ellen La Motte trained as a nurse at Johns Hopkins in Baltimore. From 1914 to 1916, she cared for wounded and dying French soldiers, first in a hospital in Paris […]
By Peter Phillips, March 14, 2019 Regime changes in Iraq and Libya, Syria’s war, Venezuela’s crisis, sanctions on Cuba, Iran, Russia, and North Korea are reflections of a new global imperialism imposed by a core of capitalist nations in support […]
By David Swanson, Director, World BEYOND War If you saw a book in Barnes and Noble called “How Not to Go to War,” wouldn’t you assume it was a guide to the proper equipment every good warrior should have when […]
Omali Yeshitela is Chairman of the Black is Back Coalition for Social Justice, Peace, and Reparations. The website is at blackisbackcoalition.org He has agreed to speak on April 4th in Washington DC at the No to NATO — Yes to […]
Remarks at Student Peace Awards of Fairfax County, Va., March 10, 2019 By David Swanson, Director, World BEYOND War Thank you for inviting me here. I’m honored. And I’m reminded of lots of happy memories of Herndon High School, class […]
By David Hartsough, March 8, 2019 I went to Iran with a peace delegation of 28 Americans organized by Code Pink, a women-led peace activist group. The first day in Iran we had a very fruitful hour-and-half conversation with Javad […]
By David Swanson, World BEYOND War A choice must now be made. It is officially unconstitutional to discriminate against 18-year-old women by not forcing them to sign up to be forced against their will to kill and die for Venezuela’s […]
Book Review: Maverick Priest: A Story of Life on the Edge by Father Harry J. Bury, Ph.D. Robert D. Reed Publishers, Bandon, OR, 2018. By Alan Knight for World BEYOND War Mark Twain once wrote that “it is curious that […]
“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/
