By Rivera Sun, November 21, 2019 From Antiwar.Blog We may be months away from ending the US military draft, once and for all. After a court ruled that the male-only draft was unconstitutional, a Congress-appointed Commission has been studying whether […]
By Matthew Hoh, November 8, 2019 From Counterpunch I was very pleased to see the New York Times editorial on November 1, 2019, Suicide Has Been Deadlier than Combat for the Military. As a combat veteran myself and someone who has struggled with suicidality […]
by Manolo Dinnuci, November 5, 2019 Napoli, e non Roma, è stata il 4 novembre al centro della Giornata delle Forze Armate. Sul Lungomare Caracciolo sono sfilati 5 battaglioni. Ma il pezzo forte è stata l’area espositiva interforze, che ha richiamato […]
Mark Isaacs is the author, among other books, of the new book, The Kabul Peace House, which we discuss, and which describes a community of peace activists in Afghanistan. Mark is president of Sydney PEN, an affiliate of PEN International, a […]
By David Swanson, October 27, 2019 There were whispers in the village, high up in the mountains of Afghanistan. There was a Stranger here. He had made a friend and been invited to live in a home despite not being […]
By Sarah Flatto Mansarah, October 8, 2019 From Waging Nonviolence Just over one year ago, photos and videos of Israeli border police violently arresting a young Palestinian woman went viral. She appeared to be screaming as they ripped her hijab off and […]
Lisa Fithian has just published a terrific guide to direct action and strategic civil disobedience as the most radical and rapid means to social change, called Shut It Down: Stories from a Fierce Loving Resistance. Fithian has been described by […]
By David Swanson, September 20, 2019 In the years following 2003, the U.S. military dotted Iraq with over 500 military bases, many of them close to Iraqi cities. These cities suffered the impacts of bombs, bullets, chemical and other weapons, […]
By Marc Eliot Stein, September 18, 2019 What do peace educators do? On this month’s episode of the World BEYOND War podcast, we talk to three professional peace educators from various backgrounds: Tony Jenkins, managing director of the International Institute […]
Russell Gray grew up in Kansas City, graduated from college in 2017 and took a banking regulation job with the U.S. government. He left that job in November 2018 to help start the climate group Extinction Rebellion in the United States. […]
There is a rising protest movement in Okinawa, where PFAS pollution from US military bases is already a health crisis. Please help the Okinawan people spread their message that this unjust treatment must end.
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By Joseph Essertier, February 16, 2020 On Friday, the 6th of March, activists in Okinawa will hold a lecture about U.S. bases poisoning the water of Okinawa with PFAS. Okinawa is a region in the south of the archipelago of Japan, ...Courageous protestors in Canada are showing, once again, the significant power of peaceful civil disobedience. 👊🏽
Rail blockades are proving to be an effective non-violent response to state violence
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In the early hours of February 6, militarized Canadian police began a five-day long assault on the unceded and sovereign territory of the Wet'suwet'en people in northern British Columbia to facilitate the construction of a fracked gas pipeline that lacks that nation's consent. Nine days later, Wet's...It's been remarked that global public opinion is the only force powerful enough to stand up to the US military. Today, this is more important than ever.
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By Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies, February 15, 2020 February 15 marks the day, 17 years ago, when global demonstrations against the pending Iraq invasion were so massive that the New York Times called world public opinion “the ...Shut Down Canada Until it Solves its War, Oil, and Genocide Problem
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As Trump Attacks Sanders on "Socialism," Pentagon Audit Shows $10 Trillion Unaccounted For
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HubPages As Trump Attacks Sanders on "Socialism," Pentagon Audit Shows $10 Trillion Unaccounted ForUpdated on February 13, 2020 Ralph Lopez moreContact Author While Donald Trump in his State of the Union address took a thinly-veiled swipe at Bernie Sanders when he declared that America would never,....
