A Hawke’s Bay peace advocate says the sight of 100 soldiers marching down Dannevirke’s main street as part of a charter parade earlier in December was “inappropriate” so close to Christmas.
You may have heard that the U.S. House of Representatives just passed a bill to spend $741 billion renaming military bases that have been heretofore named for Confederates. You may think that’s a grand idea but still wonder at the price tag.
In this World BEYOND War webinar, Yale Magrass and Charles Derber, authors of the new book “Glorious Causes”, consider how elites galvanize people for war and bring them to adopt political-economic identities which contradict their rational self-interest.
Just a few weeks ago, super hawk Michèle Flournoy was being touted as a virtual shoo-in to become Joe Biden’s nominee for Secretary of Defense. But some progressives insisted on organizing to raise key questions: Should we accept the revolving door that keeps spinning between the Pentagon and the weapons industry?
Biden’s foreign policy team will need a special kind of confidence to confront the most serious challenge they face: the controlling and corrupting power of the Military-Industrial Complex, which President Eisenhower warned our grandparents about 60 years ago.
Michele Flournoy represents the epitome of what is worst about the Washington blob, the military-industrial complex’s revolving door,” says CodePink co-founder Medea Benjamin.
Antony Blinken is not the Secretary of State the United States or the world needs, and the U.S. Senate should reject his nomination. Here are 10 reasons.
Ann Wright is the moderator. Panelists are Kathy Kelly, Matthew Hoh, Rory Fanning, Danny Sjursen, and Arash Azizzada.
This webinar features David Swanson, Executive Director of World BEYOND War, discussing the “What about WWII?” question so popular among supporters of military spending, and the history of Armistice Day.
