By Linda van Tilburg, July 7, 2020 From BizNews When Minister in the Presidency Jackson Mthembu became the chair of South Africa’s arms trade regulator, the National Conventional Arms Control Committee (NCACC) adopted a much stricter approach to the export […]
By Nicolas J S Davies, July 7, 2020 When President Clinton dropped 23,000 bombs on what was left of Yugoslavia in 1999 and NATO invaded and occupied the Yugoslav province of Kosovo, U.S. officials presented the war to the American […]
By Terry Crawford-Browne, June 23, 2020 Former South Africa President Jacob Zuma and the French government-controlled Thales arms company have been charged with fraud, money laundering and racketeering. After multiple delays, Zuma and Thales are finally scheduled to come to […]
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By Marc Eliot Stein, June 20, 2020 “That’s when I saw this whole thing as a charade. I knew it was wrong.” I’ve been wanting to interview Miles Megaciph for the World BEYOND War podcast since hearing him perform at […]
By Alice Slater, June 17, 2020 From InDepth News The Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) just issued its 2020 Yearbook, reporting on developments in armaments, disarmament, and international security. In light of the drumbeat of frightening news about growing hostility between the […]
By Andrea Germanos, June 11, 2020 From Common Dreams The Trump administration renewed its attacks on the International Criminal Court on Thursday with President Donald Trump issuing an executive order imposing economic sanctions against ICC staff involved in the ongoing […]
By Jeremy Varon, Witness Against Torture, June 9, 2020 I too reacted with horror at seeing the video of a 75-year-old man bleeding from the head after being shoved to the ground by Buffalo police. My stomach turned tighter when […]
By David Swanson, World BEYOND War, June 9, 2020 Peadar King is director of KMF Productions and presenter / producer of the RTÉ documentary series What in the World? We discuss his latest book, War, Suffering, and the Struggle for […]
By David Swanson, June 5, 2020 Already we’ve seen, as a result of people taking to the streets in the United States: Four policemen indicted. More racist monuments dismantled. Some minimal and inconsistent limit on what the New York Times editorial page […]
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Following a successful series of online trainings, join us for our first online panel event, focusing on building our understanding of how the global arms trade intersects with other key issues of our time, including racism, colonialism, climate (in)justice and militarised policing. We will start th...Join WBW's Organizing Director Greta Zarro on July 9 for a conversation with @CAATuk about the global arms trade and its multi-faceted impacts. Register for the webinar: zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_r1SYh86SS6GW1rQfSIT8vQ
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Following a successful series of online trainings, join us for our first online panel event, focusing on building our understanding of how the global arms trade intersects with other key issues of our time, including racism, colonialism, climate (in)justice and militarised policing. We will start th...What a shock - Derek Chauvin got his training at Fort Benning, a specialized military base, just like many Latin American dictators.
Killer Cop Got Start At Dictator-Training Military Base - World Beyond War . . .
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From Moderate Rebels, June 29, 2020 The Minneapolis cop who murdered George Floyd, setting off a protest movement, Derek Chauvin, started his career as a military police officer at the notorious Fort Benning, a base named after a Confederate general [...]The United Nations is finally adopting chief Antonio Guterres' call for a global truce, after months of pointless squabbling between US and China.
Months Later, U.N. Security Council Backs Call For Coronavirus Truce - World Beyond War . . .
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By Michelle Nichols, Reuters, July 2, 2020 NEW YORK (Reuters) – The U.N. Security Council on Wednesday finally backed U.N. chief Antonio Guterres’ March 23 call for a global truce amid the coronavirus pandemic, adopting a resolution after months of [...]
