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David Swanson, Alice Slater, and Bruce Gagnon discuss obstacles to nuclear abolition and the U.S.-Russia relationship.
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Who Was Our Worst President? Think About It When A Grim 75th Anniversary Arrives
By Paul Lovinger, July 21, 2020 From History News Network Princeton Professor Sean Wilentz, who teaches the history of the Revolutionary War and early American history, considers Donald Trump “without question the worst president in American history.” In Rolling Stone, he cites […]
Hiroshima And Nagasaki As Collateral Damage
By Jack Gilroy, July 21, 2020 August 6, 1945 found me in a car with my uncle, Frank Pryal. A NYC plainclothes detective, Uncle Frank drove through the busy streets of Manhattan up to the Central Park Zoo to meet […]
75 Years: Canada, Nuclear Weapons and the UN Ban Treaty
Hiroshima Nagasaki Day Coalition Hiroshima-Nagasaki Day 75th Anniversary Commemoration with Setsuko Thurlow & Friends Thursday, August 6, 2020 at 7:00 PM – 8:30 PM EDT “This is the beginning of the end of nuclear weapons.” ― Setsuko Thurlow TORONTO: On […]
Bats With Napalm Vests And Other Great American Innovations
By David Swanson, World BEYOND War, July 16, 2020 Nicholson Baker’s new book, Baseless: My Search for Secrets in the Ruins of the Freedom of Information Act, is staggeringly good. If I point out any minor complaints with it, while […]
An Open Letter By Setsuko Thurlow
The Right Honourable Justin Trudeau Prime Minister of Canada Office of the Prime Minister 80 Wellington Street Ottawa, ON K1A 0A2 June 22, 2020 Dear Prime Minister Trudeau: As a Hiroshima survivor, I was honoured to jointly accept the Nobel […]
The Vow From Hiroshima Should Be From Everywhere
By David Swanson, World BEYOND War, July 10, 2020 The new film, The Vow From Hiroshima, tells the story of Setsuko Thurlow who was a school girl in Hiroshima when the United States dropped the first nuclear bomb. She was […]
On An Alternative Global Security System: A View From the Margins
By Merci Llarinas-Angeles, July 10, 2020 The tasks ahead to build an alternative global security system (AGSS) are a gigantic challenge to all of us who believe that a peaceful world is possible, but there are stories of hope all […]
South Africa Arms Industry Is Dodging Rules To Sell Weapons To Turkey
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 […]
Talk Nation Radio: Greg Mitchell on the Origins of Myths About Hiroshima and Nagasaki
By David Swanson, World BEYOND War, July 7, 2020 This week on Talk Nation Radio: Why is much of what many people believe about the nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki not true? And how did Hollywood help get various […]
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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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