This week on Talk World Radio we’re talking about this terrific book, Empire of Lies: Fragments from the Memory Hole: The Shameful Story of the Deep State’s War Lords, War Lies, & Failed Foreign Interventions. #WorldBEYONDWar
We haven’t yet gotten to the point where courage in a politician is understood by everybody as standing up to the weapons dealers and warmongers and saying No I won’t do war. #WorldBEYONDWar
WBW Latin America Organizer Gabriel Aguirre has been strategizing with the Geneva Center for Neutrality and the Geneva Center for Security Policy. #WorldBEYONDWar
With the help of movements and academic institutions like Kilusan para sa Pambansang Demokrasya (KILUSAN), PEACE Philippines, and the Philippine Normal University (PNU), we held symbolic actions depicting our advocacy for peace and our opposition to war and militarism. #WorldBEYONDWar
We call upon all international actors to return to unwavering respect for the United Nations Charter, ensuring that human rights—alongside and with the active engagement of civil society—remain at the heart of government action. #WorldBEYONDWar
To teachers, facilitators, trainers, youth workers, community educators and everyone helping people learn, question, and act: thank you for the work you do. #WorldBEYONDWar
The administration is pushing ahead despite all these unresolved objections. But opponents are pushing back through lawsuits, public testimony and protests. #WorldBEYONDWar
So, phone the neighbors, wake the kids, and pinch the lazy new panda bears because a peace dividend is surely on the way if enough people find out that Trump has tried to sell China weapons and think about it for a few seconds and do something about it for a few days. #WorldBEYONDWar
Ibrahim Mohammad Khraishi is a Palestinian politician and diplomat. He is Deputy Foreign Affairs Minister of the Palestinian National Authority, Palestine’s ambassador to Switzerland, and Permanent Observer representing Palestine for the United Nations at Geneva. #WorldBEYONDWar
