July 30 2020 webinar with World BEYOND War’s David Swanson and Greta Zarro on how to start and win a campaign to ban militarized policing in your locality, anywhere on earth. We recently did this in Charlottesville, Va., U.S., and […]
davidcnswanson · Talk Nation Radio: Marjorie Cohn on Legal Remedies to Federal Troops in the Streets Marjorie Cohn is professor emerita at Thomas Jefferson School of Law in San Diego, former president of the National Lawyers Guild, deputy secretary general […]
By Taylor O’Connor | www.everydaypeacebuilding.com Black Lives Matter Protest in Seattle, WA (30 May 2020). Photo by Kelly Kline on Unsplash “What the main drift of the twentieth century has revealed is that the (US) economy has become concentrated […]
July 23, 2020 NewsRadio WINA · The Man Behind the Petition to De-Militarize Charlottesville Police Les Sinclair talks with David Swanson, executive director of WorldBeyondWar.org and campaign coordinator for RootsAction.org and the man whose petition was turned into a resolution […]
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 Medea Benjamin and Zoltán Grossman, July 14, 2020 Since George Floyd was murdered, we have seen an increasing convergence of the “war at home” against Black and brown people with the “wars abroad” that the U.S. has waged against […]
By Phil Armstrong and Catherine Armstrong, July 9, 2020 From Counterfire What nations say they stand for and what the evidence suggests they stand for can be – and frequently are – two entirely different things. This highly thought-provoking book […]
July 4, 2020 Secretary of Defense Mark T. Esper Department of Defense Secretary of the Navy Richard V. Spencer Department of the Navy Nora Macariola-See Naval Facilities Engineering Command Pacific 258 Makalapa Drive, Suite 100 Pearl Harbor, Hawaii 96860-3134 Re: […]
From Moderate Rebels, June 29, 2020 The Minneapolis cop who murdered George Floyd, setting off a protest movement, Derek Chauvin, started his career as a military police officer at the notorious Fort Benning, a base named after a Confederate general […]
June 30, 2020 Dear House Armed Services Committee Members: The undersigned civil, human rights, faith, and government accountability organizations, representing millions of our members across the country, write in support of ending the Department of Defense’s 1033 Program and associated […]
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.
This is what it looked like: buff.ly/2EUT3ys
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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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