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The USF Institute for Nonviolence and Social Justice, is pleased to honor David Hartsough with the institute’s 2021 Clarence B. Jones Award for Kingian Nonviolence.
World BEYOND War members were at the Toronto Air Show on Sunday to make sure everyone understood that it was an advertisement for F-35s that Canada should not buy.
This is week 1 of a book club organized by World BEYOND War with Kathy Kelly and the book “Bending the Arc: Striving for Peace and Justice in the Age of Endless War.”
When you imagine ending a war, do you imagine the U.S. President lamenting the human cost of the war’s financial expense while simultaneously demanding that Congress increase military spending — and while mentioning new wars that could potentially be launched?
Many took heart when America announced an end to its military occupation of Afghanistan last month.
The report found that over the last 20 years, militarized foreign and domestic policies in the United States have cost $21 trillion.
As the United States ends its military presence in Afghanistan after 20 years of occupation and war, the Costs of War Project estimates it spent over $2.2 trillion in Afghanistan and Pakistan, and by one count, over 170,000 people died during the fighting over the last two decades.