Ray McGovern was an infantry/intelligence officer in the early Sixties, and became a CIA analyst. His duties eventually included chairing National Intelligence Estimates and preparing The President’s Daily Brief. He conducted the one-on-one morning briefings of President Reagan’s five most […]
This week on Talk Nation Radio we’re talking antiwar activism with Ann Wright who was in the U.S. Army/Army Reserves for 29 years and retired as a Colonel but who, by my count, has been a fulltime model antiwar activist […]
By Victor Grossman, July 12, 2020 From Berlin Bulletin No. 178 Despite the continuing coronavirus danger, and despite anger, loathing or fear about “that man”, some people may still have an eye or an ear for international relations. If so, […]
By Linda van Tilburg, July 7, 2020 From BizNews When Minister in the Presidency Jackson Mthembu became the chair of South Africa’s arms trade regulator, the National Conventional Arms Control Committee (NCACC) adopted a much stricter approach to the export […]
By Andrea Germanos, June 11, 2020 From Common Dreams The Trump administration renewed its attacks on the International Criminal Court on Thursday with President Donald Trump issuing an executive order imposing economic sanctions against ICC staff involved in the ongoing […]
By Matthew Lee, May 18, 2020 From ABC News Congressional Democrats say the State Department watchdog fired by President Donald Trump last week was investigating possible impropriety in a massive arms sale to Saudi Arabia last year, adding new questions to the […]
By Gareth Porter, May 5, 2020 From The Grayzone President Donald Trump scrapped the nuclear deal with Iran and continued to risk war with Iran based on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s claim to have proven definitively that Iran was […]
By Pat Elder, April 27, 2020 From Civilian Exposure A fire suppression system in an aircraft hangar discharged a massive volume of toxic firefighting foam from Marine Corps Air Station Futenma in Okinawa on April 10. The foam contains perfluoro […]
By David Swanson, April 15, 2020 What’s the matter with science? By that, do I mean, why don’t we turn away from corrupt politics and religion and follow the way of science? Or do I mean, why have we allowed […]
By Pat Elder, April 12, 2020 米軍基地から漏れ出した有害物資を含む泡消火剤 “Foam containing harmful materials leaked from U.S. military base” According to Okinawa-based Toshio TAKAHASHI, The Okinawa Defense Bureau has provided information on the release of foam from Futenma Airfield, which occurred on Friday, […]
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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The UN expressed concern on Tuesday for the safety and protection of more than four million civilians in north-western Syria, which has been hit with aerial bombardments over the past few days buff.ly/2Pt7pIe #HumanRightsViolations #war #SyrianLivesMatter
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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