By David Swanson, September 13, 2019 I didn’t know until recently that Smedley Butler had ever been to my town. Then I heard that he’d spoken at the University of Virginia here in Charlottesville in 1937. The University of Virginia […]
By David Swanson Remarks in Poulsbo, Washington, August 4, 2019 This week, 74 years ago, the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were each hit with a single nuclear bomb that had the power of a third to a half of […]
Jeremy Kuzmarov has taught at numerous colleges across the United States and is author of four books on U.S. foreign policy including The Russians are Coming, Again: The First Cold War as Tragedy, the Second as Farce, with John Marciano and […]
By David Swanson, July 27, 2019 From Kitsapsun The nuclear bombs that were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki 74 years ago this August 6th and 9th did not save lives. They took lives, possibly 200,000 of them. The United States […]
By David Swanson, World BEYOND War, July 28, 2019 Every government on earth, beginning with the United States, should shut down and be done with secret agencies, spy agencies, agencies used for murder, torture, bribery, election-manipulation, and coups. While these […]
By Kristin Christman, July 21, 2019 Originally Published in the Albany Times Union If you were Iranian and learned that U.S. National Security Adviser John Bolton wanted to attack your country, wouldn’t you feel terrified? But we’re taught to dismiss […]
Jeff Ostler is Beekman Professor of Northwest and Pacific History at the University of Oregon. He teaches courses on U.S. history and American Indian history. And he is the author of an important new book called Surviving Genocide: Native Nations and […]
By Brett Wilkins, July 18, 2019 From Common Dreams Five of the 24 men sentenced last week by an Italian court to life in prison for their roles in a brutal and bloody U.S.-backed Cold War campaign against South American dissidents graduated […]
By David Swanson, July 10, 2019 By “the Obama wars” I don’t mean some overgrown infants on television screaming racist insults or pretending that opposing racism requires cheering for Obama. I mean: the widespread indiscriminate murder of human beings with […]
By Lois Lindstrom, June 29, 2019 “War Is A Lie” by David Swanson is a thorough refutation of every major argument used to justify wars, drawing on evidence from numerous past wars, with a focus on those that have been […]
"The CANSEC weapons bazaar is not about Canadian security. It's more like Canadian insecurity" - Colin Stuart, antiwar activist and #NoWar2020 speaker, on the latest World BEYOND War podcast episode, "Intersections in Ottawa".
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By Marc Eliot Stein and Greta Zarro, February 28, 2020 The upcoming #NoWar2020 antiwar conference in Ottawa, Canada will be a convergence of indigenous rights movements, urgency for climate change awareness, protest against military profiteering at the CANSEC weapons bazaar, ...This artwork points an accusing finger at everybody who supported the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
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Seafront commission, which references the invasion of Iraq in 2003, is part of England’s Creative Coast: Waterfronts initiativePowerful, comprehenseive overview of the case against war and militarism by Taylor O'Connor.
Lies Used To Justify War And How To Dismantle Them - World Beyond War . . .
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By Taylor O’Connor, February 27, 2019 From Medium “Beautiful ideals were painted for our boys who were sent out to die. This was the ‘war to end wars.’ This was the ‘war to make the world safe for democracy.’ No ...Our annual conference is May 29-30 because we're shedding a light on CANSEC, Canada's biggest weapons expo. We're lining up internationally-recognized speakers + trainers on nonviolence, divestment, organizing strategies & more. Register to join us: nowar2020.worldbeyondwar.org/
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Schedule An international coalition of individuals and organizations is converging on Ottawa (unceded and unsurrendered Algonquin Territory) for #NoWar2020, to say No to CANSEC, Canada’s biggest annual weapons expo. #CancelCANSEC #NoWar2020 marks World BEYOND War’s 5th annual global conference. ...Yet Another Mass Shooter Was a Military Veteran
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Thursday yet another mass shooting was committed by a military veteran, this one in Milwaukee. Virtually all military veterans are not mass shooters. Many peace activists are veterans. Many everyth...
