By Pat Elder, March 27, 2020 From Military Poisons The Pentagon now admits that 651 military sites are contaminated with per- and poly fluoroalkyl substances, (PFAS), a 62 percent increase from its last count of 401 sites in August, 2017. See the DOD’s latest […]
By Nathan Albright, March 11, 2020 From Voices for Creative Nonviolence On June 5th, 2019, senior intelligence analyst Rod Schoonover spoke before a House Intelligence hearing on National Security and Climate Change. “The Earth’s climate is unequivocally undergoing a long-term […]
By David Swanson, Executive Director of World BEYOND War, March 25, 2020 A moment in which U.S. politicians are openly talking about the need to sacrifice lives to a disease in the name of profit may be a good moment […]
By Pat Elder, March 24, 2020 This is part one of a seven-part series focusing on a single pollution site: the Patuxent River Naval Air Station in Maryland, USA. The Navy has contaminated the groundwater at Maryland’s Patuxent (Pax) River […]
By Medea Benjamin and Nicolas S. J. Davies, March 17, 2020 While the world is consumed with the terrifying coronavirus pandemic, on March 19 the Trump administration will be marking the 17th anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq by ramping […]
On March 3, 2020 Pat Elder gave a two-hour presentation to members of Veterans for Peace and other groups at the Church of the Crossroads in Honolulu, Hawaii. Pat spoke on the extent and the danger caused by the military’s […]
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, […]
The groundwater in Victorville and throughout much of California is contaminated with PFAS, the “forever chemicals.” By Pat Elder, February 23, 2020, World BEYOND War On September 10, 2018 the Lahontan Regional Water Board tested the well water of the […]
The Air Force’s fire training area and Fresno’s Water Treatment Plant are too close for comfort. By Pat Elder, February 23, 2020, World BEYOND War Fresno’s Southeast Surface Water Treatment Plant is located 7,500 feet from the former Fire Training […]
By Joseph Essertier, February 16, 2020 On Friday, the 6th of March, activists in Okinawa will hold a lecture about U.S. bases poisoning the water of Okinawa with PFAS. Okinawa is a region in the south of the archipelago of Japan, […]
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Following a successful series of online trainings, join us for our first online panel event, focusing on building our understanding of how the global arms trade intersects with other key issues of our time, including racism, colonialism, climate (in)justice and militarised policing. We will start th...Join WBW's Organizing Director Greta Zarro on July 9 for a conversation with @CAATuk about the global arms trade and its multi-faceted impacts. Register for the webinar: zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_r1SYh86SS6GW1rQfSIT8vQ
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Following a successful series of online trainings, join us for our first online panel event, focusing on building our understanding of how the global arms trade intersects with other key issues of our time, including racism, colonialism, climate (in)justice and militarised policing. We will start th...What a shock - Derek Chauvin got his training at Fort Benning, a specialized military base, just like many Latin American dictators.
Killer Cop Got Start At Dictator-Training Military Base - World Beyond War . . .
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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 [...]The United Nations is finally adopting chief Antonio Guterres' call for a global truce, after months of pointless squabbling between US and China.
Months Later, U.N. Security Council Backs Call For Coronavirus Truce - World Beyond War . . .
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By Michelle Nichols, Reuters, July 2, 2020 NEW YORK (Reuters) – The U.N. Security Council on Wednesday finally backed U.N. chief Antonio Guterres’ March 23 call for a global truce amid the coronavirus pandemic, adopting a resolution after months of [...]
