From Peace Science Digest, July 25, 2020 This analysis summarizes and reflects on the following research: Sullivan, P., Blanken, L., & Rice, I. (2020). Arming the peace: Foreign security assistance and human rights conditions in post-conflict countries. Defence and Peace Economics, […]
By Bianca Mugyenyi, July 23, 2020 From The Tyee Canada should not be buying expensive, carbon-intensive, destructive fighter jets. Protests are being held Friday at more than 15 MPs’ offices across the country demanding the federal government cancel its planned purchase […]
By Manlio Dinucci, July 21, 2020 Italian Defense Minister Lorenzo Guerini (Democratic Party) expressed great satisfaction with the “cohesive” vote of the Parliament on international missions. The majority and the opposition approved 40 Italian military missions in Europe, Africa, the […]
By Marc Eliot Stein, July 21, 2020 “I believe that secrecy is the refuge of the incompetent, and I believe absolutely that this book demonstrates that there was tremendous bumbling, violent bumbling, that happened all over the place in the […]
By Paul Lovinger, July 21, 2020 From History News Network Princeton Professor Sean Wilentz, who teaches the history of the Revolutionary War and early American history, considers Donald Trump “without question the worst president in American history.” In Rolling Stone, he cites […]
July 14, 2020 “For years, there has been a disconnect between House Foreign Affairs Committee and the rest of the House Democratic Caucus regarding the United States’ most consequential foreign policy issues, such as the Iraq War, President Obama’s diplomatic […]
July 15, 2021 “Our militarism budget is out of control. In 2019, the United States spent more money on our military than the next nine countries combined”, with more than half going to expensive and non-competitive military contractors.? The Department […]
By David Swanson, Talk Nation Radio, July 14, 2020 This week on Talk Nation Radio: massive, shameless, and endlessly expanding war profiteering by weapons dealers. Our guest is Heidi Peltier, author of a new report called “The Growth of the […]
By David Swanson, World BEYOND War, July 12, 2020 A bill in Congress with bipartisan support would require post offices and various government buildings to fly from September 11th to September 30th every year a flag that looks like this: […]
Margaret Kimberley · AFRICOM Enforces US Colonial Project By Margaret Kimberley, July 6, 2020 From Black Agenda Report “We see AFRICOM as the colonization of Africa by the US,” said Tunde Osazua, of the Black Alliance for Peace. “Instead of […]
On August 6, 1945, the U.S. dropped an atomic bomb on #hiroshima. As many as 140,000 people ultimately people died from the blast.
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My reckoning with #Hiroshima, 75 years later: "My father told me we might not change the whole world. But if we tell our story, person to person … someday."
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Daughters of the bomb: my reckoning with Hiroshima, 75 years later
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On the 75th anniversary of the A-bomb, a Japanese American writer speaks to one of the last living survivorsMilitarism did not bring peace to Iraq and Libya but rather fuelled a continuing crisis.
Meanwhile, the Canadian government is planning to spend $19 billion on new fighter jets #nonewfighterjets #WorldBeyondWar
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Canadian fighter jets, militarism and the human rights to water and sanitation in Iraq and LibyaPublished by Brent Patterson on August 4, 2020August 4, 2020 Photo: 2,000-pound GBU-10 bombs are mounted on a CF-18 fighter jet at a base in Italy before deployment to Libya in 2011. The Canadian governme...NEW GLOBAL SKILLS EXCHANGE! 👉 Support #WorldBeyondWar by participating in our new online events!
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