Climate and Militarism Event Planned for 4 November in Glasgow, Scotland
A broad and growing coalition of peace and environmental organizations has announced plans for an event on Thursday, 4 November, in Glasgow.
A broad and growing coalition of peace and environmental organizations has announced plans for an event on Thursday, 4 November, in Glasgow.
I don’t like the downsides in these bills at all. I think they’re horrific, disgraceful, and absolutely indefensible. But I think they’re outweighed by the upsides, even in the Senate bill, though the House one is better. Yet, clearly best of all would be for Congress to make use of any of these things, either one of the new bills or the law as it exists today.
Empire is still (or newly, as it wasn’t always) a touchy subject in the U.S. Empire.
The Pentagon issued its annual report recently on suicide in the military, and it provides us with very sad news. Despite spending hundreds of millions of dollars on programs to stem this crisis, the suicide rate for active-duty U.S. troops rose to 28.7 per 100,000 during 2020, up from 26.3 per 100,000 the previous year.
This week on Talk World Radio: Stand on Guard for Whom? — A People’s History of the Canadian Military. That’s the title of the new book, his twelfth, from our guest Yves Engler.
A few days before the IPB World Peace Congress 2021 in Barcelona, we talked to Reiner Braun, Executive Director of the International Peace Bureau (IPB) about how the peace movement, trade unions and the environmental movement can come together, why we need a peace congress of encouragement and youth, which will take place completely hybrid from 15-17 October in Barcelona and why it is exactly the right moment for it.
Matt Fuller is currently a PhD student at the University of Otago in Dunedin, New Zealand.
The October 2021 Volunteer Spotlight features John Miksad, a World BEYOND War chapter coordinator from the New York City Tri-State Area.
Excerpted from an interview of Alison Broinowski and David Swanson by James Wohlgemuth.