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 […]
By Nicolas J S Davies, July 7, 2020 When President Clinton dropped 23,000 bombs on what was left of Yugoslavia in 1999 and NATO invaded and occupied the Yugoslav province of Kosovo, U.S. officials presented the war to the American […]
By Joshua Cho, July 5, 2020 From FAIR (Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting) “In order to eliminate the nuclear threats from the US, the DPRK government has made all possible efforts, either through dialogue or in resort to the international […]
By Vermont International Film Festival, July 6, 2020 Join us for this series of discussions of films! We recommend that you view each film ahead of time, and each title below has information about how to view it online – […]
By Mbizo CHIRASHA, World BEYOND War, July 2, 2020 DICTATOR’S DOEKS Grandma’s sweat bathes the statehouse tarmacs, Poverty shaved fathers are the glitter that replaced floodlights and stolen lampposts Brother is the anointed fisherman catching political breams for the presidential […]
By David Swanson, World BEYOND War, July 5, 2020 The habitability of the earth and the viability of lesser evilism are on the ropes, and incrementalism is thriving even in the current moment of increased activism for radical change. […]
By World BEYOND War, July 4, 2020 Call hosted in Iran by World BEYOND War Board Member Foad Izadi:
July 4, 2020 “Corruption and the Arms Trade” is a 38-minute presentation by Terry Crawford- Browne, World BEYOND War’s coordinator for South Africa, delivered on July 1 via Zoom to the Probus (retired Rotarians) Club in Somerset West. A podcast […]
From Moderate Rebels, June 29, 2020 The Minneapolis cop who murdered George Floyd, setting off a protest movement, Derek Chauvin, started his career as a military police officer at the notorious Fort Benning, a base named after a Confederate general […]
By Michelle Nichols, Reuters, July 2, 2020 NEW YORK (Reuters) – The U.N. Security Council on Wednesday finally backed U.N. chief Antonio Guterres’ March 23 call for a global truce amid the coronavirus pandemic, adopting a resolution after months of […]
#DYK: In violation of the Covid aviation lockdown regulations, six flights of Turkish A400M aircraft landed in Cape Town during 30 April to 4 May to uplift cargoes of RDM munitions for export to Turkey #WorldBeyondWar #weapons #war
South Africa Arms Industry Is Dodging Rules To Sell Weapons To Turkey - World Beyond War . . .
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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 [...]Recent UN investigation shows that war crimes and possible crimes against humanity were committed during the battle for Syria's opposition-held Idlib province #HumanRightsWatch #HumanRightsViolations #WorldBeyondWar
UN alleges war crimes during Syria's Idlib offensive
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Report describes 17 attacks on hospitals, 14 involving schools, nine on markets, and 12 on civilian homes in Idlib.South America is the region of the world where peace deteriorated most last year, followed by Central America and the Caribbean, with peacefulness expected to drop globally as a result of COVID-19 #humanrights
Latin America sees largest decline in peacefulness as COVID-19 poses further threat
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South America is the region of the world where peace deteriorated most last year, according to the "Global Peace Index 2020" report.Let's celebrate 20 U.S. Congress Members who understand what’s needed: move major amounts of money out of wars into human and environmental needs buff.ly/2OcC77V #ClimateChange #HumanRights
Ridding humanity of #NuclearWeapons is the obvious, most-important, end in itself and first step toward ridding ourselves of #war, but it’s unlikely to happen unless we move forward on ridding ourselves of the whole institution of war at the same time buff.ly/3iNzzLz
