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New Report Reveals Canada’s Planned Fighter Jet Purchase Will Top $77B
A report produced by the No Fighter Jets Coalition estimates that the real cost of the planned purchase of 88 new fighter jets by the Canadian government will total $77 billion.
A report produced by the No Fighter Jets Coalition estimates that the real cost of the planned purchase of 88 new fighter jets by the Canadian government will total $77 billion.
The February meeting of NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) Defense Ministers, the first since President Biden took power, revealed an antiquated, 75-year-old alliance that, despite its military failures in Afghanistan and Libya, is now turning its military madness toward two more formidable, nuclear-armed enemies: Russia and China.
Huge military budgets will not protect us from extinction. Nations must redirect spending towards human security and peacekeeping now.
This week’s conversation with Suad Aldarra and Yaser Alashqar looks at militarism and human displacement.
Max Blumenthal and Ben Norton speak with peace activist David Swanson about the US wars coming home: from the prolonged military occupation of Washington, DC to the “liberal interventionist” hawks in the Joe Biden administration, including Antony Blinken, Samantha Power, Lloyd Austin, and Avril Haines.
The latest World BEYOND War podcast episode is something different: a deep dive into the teachings of Mahatma Gandhi and their relevance for peace activists today. I spoke to Dr. Suman Khanna Aggarwal, the founder and President of Shanti Sahyog in New Delhi, India.
Trump escalated Obama’s bombing campaigns against the Taliban in Afghanistan and the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, and loosened U.S. rules of engagement regarding airstrikes that were predictably going to kill civilians.
Dear President Joe Biden,
Congratulations and best wishes!
The Pope of your church in October 2020 wrote these words:
We must not turn away. We must decry the terrible war and blockade. Doing so may help spare the lives of at least some of Yemen’s children. The opportunity to resist this massacre of the innocents rests with us.