VIDEO: A World BEYOND War? Conversations on Alternatives: Part 4
This week’s conversation with Suad Aldarra and Yaser Alashqar looks at militarism and human displacement.
This week’s conversation with Suad Aldarra and Yaser Alashqar looks at militarism and human displacement.
This week’s conversation is the 3rd of the World BEYOND War Irish chapter’s weekly Wednesday webinar series. We spoke with Dublin-based filmmaker Dave Donnellan on war’s environmental impact.
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.
On January 22, 2021, the day the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons came into effect, we were honoured to sponsor an event hosted by the Canadian Foreign Policy Institute – The Threat of Nuclear Weapons: Why Canada Should Sign the UN Nuclear Ban Treaty featuring Noam Chomsky.
David Swanson, Author and Executive Director of WorldBeyondWar.org, focuses on why war is immoral, endangers the planet, threatens our environment, impoverishes people, and consumes over $2 trillion each year.
Air Force veteran Ashli Babbitt survived stints in Iraq and Afghanistan, where she helped guard military bases at the peak of America’s wars in those regions in the mid-to-late 2000s.
World BEYOND War Board President Leah Bolger presents on this webinar the social, environmental, and economic impact of U.S. bases and how to close them.