On September 1, an American missile slammed into a home in the small Iranian fishing town of Kuhestak, along the Strait of Hormuz, where dozens of people had gathered to celebrate the wedding of a fisherman’s daughter. #WorldBEYONDWar
Marc Eliot Stein talks about the huge manufactured lies and slanders that progressives and peace activists constantly struggle to expose. The art of manufacturing a vicious lie was satirized by a song in the popular 1815 Italian opera “The Barber of Seville” that provides some historical perspective to the agonies we face today. #WorldBEYONDWar
If it holds, it could mark the beginning of a transition away from the doctrine of “low-intensity conflict” that has shaped U.S. foreign policy for decades. #WorldBEYONDWar
When Iran moved toward a decent democratic government, the UK, U.S., and oil barons destroyed it and put in place a horrendously brutal dictatorship. When Iranians overthrew that dictatorship, religious lunatics seized power. #WorldBEYONDWar
This week on Talk World Radio, we’re talking about Iran and how we got to this point. Our guest Stephen Zunes is a professor of politics and program director for Middle Eastern Studies at the University of San Francisco. #WorldBEYONDWar
Daniel Che is a pacifist who left his home in Kyiv to live in Portugal and build Peaceful World, an online peace education project illuminated by Walt Whitman, Lev Tolstoy, the Woodstock Generation and Jainism. #WorldBEYONDWar
A coalition of veterans groups gathered in the nation’s capitol on Monday to express their deep opposition to the U.S. war on Iran. #WorldBEYONDWar
The US government under Donald Trump has twice used disingenuous negotiations with Iran to provide cover for attacking it, in June 2025 and again before launching the current war in February. Now it is trying to do so for a third time. #WorldBEYONDWar
As often happens, the truth may be even worse than we’re being told. #WorldBEYONDWar
