By Greta Zarro, March 21, 2019 From The Progressive “The burning city was abandoned by those who had means,” writes Ana Maria Gower. “Alone on the empty street, surrounded by the fire of war, I felt that death is seconds away. I […]
By David Swanson, March 20, 2019 This week, war industry employee Hans Binnendijk claimed in the weapons-advertisement conveyance Defense News that we all get five big benefits from NATO: Russia refrains from seizing Eastern Europe. The United States gets to have bases in Europe […]
By Alan Knight with Shahrzad Khayatian, February 8, 2019 Sanctions kill. And like most weapons of modern warfare, they kill indiscriminately and without conscience. In the dozen years between the two Bush wars (Bush I, 1991 and Bush II, 2003), the sanctions […]
By Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J S Davies, February 4, 2019 From Common Dreams In his masterpiece, Killing Hope: U.S. Military and C.I.A. Interventions Since World War II, William Blum, who died in December 2018, wrote chapter-length accounts of 55 U.S. […]
By David Swanson, January 8, 2019 William James’ idea of the need to create a moral equivalent of war first struck me, decades ago, when I read about it, as about as sensible an idea as inventing a new way […]
Pat Elder, 2018 Green Party Congressional Candidate from Maryland and World Beyond War coordinating committee member, delivered hard truths about the US military’s disdain for environmental safety and sanity at the International Conference Against US/NATO Military Bases in Dublin, Ireland […]
By David Swanson These two young men may have an infinite number of things in common, but the actions they took this week do not. One used a pro-war ceremony at a professional basketball game to reject the celebration of […]
By David Swanson, November 8, 2018 The suspect in today’s mass shooting (well, the biggest one I’ve heard of thus far this morning; the day is young) is a veteran of the U.S. Marine Corps. Another mass shooter in Florida last week […]
By Tom Violett I will leave this facebook post anonymous for now, this young man is a member of the Green Party of New Jersey. I met him about a year ago. He is a very passionate young man, struggling […]
By Alan Knight with with Shahrzad Khayatian, October 13, 2018 On August 23, 2018 the street price of 1 US$ in Iran was 110,000 Rial. Three months earlier the street price was 30,000 Rial. In other words, the oranges you paid […]
“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/
