By The Balfour Project, July 14, 2019 Talk by Sir Vincent Fean at recent Meretz UK Event Meretz UK hosted an event on 7th July in London’s Jewish Community centre JW3, to discuss the prospects, advantages and likely outcomes of […]
By David Swanson, July 11, 2019 In the year 2000, the CIA gave Iran (slightly and obviously flawed) blueprints for a key component of a nuclear weapon. In 2006 James Risen wrote about this “operation” in his book State of War. […]
By Joseph Essertier, June 21, 2019 Some people are actually happy about the “consistently increasing defence budgets” of recent years. One finds those words in the Exhibitor Prospectus for the weapons market in Japan called the “Maritime Air Systems & […]
By David Swanson, Executive Director of World BEYOND War, June 21, 2019 A new film by Will Watson, called Soldiers Without Guns, ought to shock a great many people — not because it utilizes a yet more gruesome form of […]
By Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J S Davies, June 17, 2019 From Common Dreams While the mystery of who is responsible for sabotaging the two tankers in the Gulf of Oman remains unsolved, it is clear that the Trump administration […]
By David Swanson, Executive Director of World BEYOND War, June 17, 2019 Scientists not employed by ExxonMobil or named Neil DeGrasse Tyson have reached a universal consensus. Wanting the United States to attack Iran is the single stupidest idea yet […]
From TomDispatch, June 13, 2019 It’s been almost 18 years of “infinite” war, carnage, the mass displacement of peoples, the destruction of cities… you know the story. We all do… kinda… but most of the time it’s a story without them. You seldom hear their voices. They are rarely attended […]
From Reprieve.org.uk, June 10, 2019 A group of men who suffered torture and mistreatment at the hands of US forces in Afghanistan have appealed against the International Criminal Court’s decision not to launch an investigation into war crimes committed during […]
Ross Caputi is a PhD student in History at UMass and a coauthor of the critically important new book The Sacking of Fallujah: A People’s History. Ross Caputi’s experience as a U.S. Marine in Fallujah in 2004 compelled him to speak […]
As an international delegation to the Russian Federation of 25 individuals, we have visited Moscow, St. Petersburg, and three cities in Crimea (April 25-May 9). We came to learn, to listen, and to build a bridge of friendship through citizen […]
Will The Real Gene Sharp Please Step Forward?
Will The Real Gene Sharp Please Step Forward?
In a recent interview with Jacobin, lawyer and political activist Marcie Smith expands on an essay she wrote earlier this year calling Gene Sharp — the late founder of nonviolent theory — “one of the most important Cold War defense intellectuals the U.S. has produced.” Unfortunately, the int...Thank you to CODEPINK: Women For Peace for sharing. We must address the connection between the war machine and the climate crisis today #climatecrisis
Don't "Make War" on Climate Change
We can’t save a burning planet with the same militarist paradigms that have repeatedly set it on fire.On This Day: This date marks the annual observance of the United Nations’ Nelson Mandela International Day.
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Should Britain recognise a sovereign Palestine now? Event report
The discussion centred on these questions:
1. Can Britain recognise a Palestinian state alongside Israel?
2. Should we?
3. Will we?
4. What good (if at all) would it do?
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Should Britain recognise a sovereign Palestine now? Event report - World Beyond War . . .
By The Balfour Project, July 14, 2019 Talk by Sir Vincent Fean at recent Meretz UK Event Meretz UK hosted an event on 7th July in London’s Jewish Community centre JW3, to discuss the prospects, advantages and likely outcomes of …Encouraging news ...
It’s our right to boycott for justice
#BDS is a nonviolent struggle demanding Israel respect the rights of the Palestinian people. Tell Congress to respect the First Amendment and stop dishonest attacks on our #RightToBoycott. Tell Congress to oppose H.Res.246 and cosponsor historic H.Res.496
