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By Terry Crawford-Browne, World BEYOND War The death of Winnie Madikezela-Mandela, the charging of former president Jacob Zuma and French arms company Thomson CSF/Thint/Thales with

By Kent D. Shifferd, April 9, 2018. There is a good chance that the U.S. will attack either Iran or North Korea or both in

World BEYOND War’s billboards project is expanding. A number of local groups in various locations, including in New York State, are partnering with us to

Back in the 1890s those who believed conquering a continent was killing enough (without taking over Hawaii, the Philippines, Cuba, Puerto Rico, etc.) included Speaker

April 9, 2018 The Honorable Mitch McConnell Majority Leader United States Senate U.S. Capitol Building, S 230 Washington, D.C. 20510 The Honorable Chuck Schumer Minority

They entered on Wednesday night April 4.  Calling themselves Kings Bay Plowshares, they went to make real the prophet Isaiah’s command: “beat swords into plowshares”. The

By Philip Anderson, Apr 8, 2018, Duluth News Tribune. Have you ever noticed that the news stories about our military change with the seasons? On

By Marc Eliot Stein, April 8, 2018 A coalition of peace and social justice groups is calling for a set of major protest actions on

By David Swanson, April 6, 2018 The fact that 3,100 Google employees signed a letteropposing Google doing work for the U.S. military is wonderful for what it reveals.

From Agence France Presse, April 5, 2018 Former ANC MP and arms deal activist Andrew Feinstein has said ahead of the start of former president

The culture of war is pervasive in our society, through military-funded Hollywood films and video games, the militarization of the police, and JROTC and ROTC

By Kristin Christman, March 31, 2018, TimesUnion. How do we treat opponents? In strong democracies, we engage them in cooperative dialogue. In weaker democracies, we

By David Swanson, April 1, 2018 We’re hearing a lot about U.S. veterans being deported, just as we hear about healthcare and retirement and homelessness

For Immediate Release Contact: Air Force Col. Rosanne Greco (ret.) 802 497-0711 Rachel Siegel, Executive Director Peace and Justice Center 802 777-2627 James Marc Leas

By Victor Grossman, Berlin, Berlin Bulletin 143, March 25 2018. My brother-in-law Werner was a passionate hunter. Until his early death he lived in East

By John W. Whitehead, March 29, 2018. “It is often the case that police shootings, incidents where law enforcement officers pull the trigger on civilians,

The following letter to the editor was written by Terry Crawford-Browne and published on PressReader. March 28, 2017 Dear Editor: It is appalling that Independent

By David Swanson, March 27, 2018 Excepted from Curing Exceptionalism: What’s wrong with how we think about the United States? What can we do about it? (April,

Mitchell Plitnick is former vice president of the Foundation for Middle East Peace. He is the former director of the U.S. Office of B’Tselem: The

By Liz Remmerswaal Hughes A delegation of human rights and disarmament groups, including World BEYOND War, went to the New Zealand Parliament in Wellington on

By David Swanson It’s hard not to focus on the fact that Trump has picked the 100th anniversary of the first Armistice Day celebration for

By Ilana Novick, March 23, 2018 From AlterNet On Monday night, Pat Elder taught his usual GED class at Great Hills High School in Maryland.

“Imagining that Donald Trump can’t do something worse each day than the day before has been doomed to failure since long before John Bolton’s appointment,”

By Ann Wright, March 22, 2018. Many in America admire young men and women who join the military and profess to be willing to give

By David Swanson, March 21, 2018. Tuesday’s debate and vote in the U.S. Senate on whether to end (technically whether or not to vote on