What Hillary Clinton Privately Told Goldman Sachs
By David Swanson At first glance, Hillary Clinton’s speeches to Goldman Sachs, which she refused to show us but WikiLeaks claims to have now produced
Peace Essay Contest 2017
The West Suburban Faith-Based Peace Coalition is once again sponsoring a Peace Essay Contest with a $1,000.00 award to the winner, $300 for the
White Helmets More Gray
“People always think something’s all true.” —Holden Caulfield When a wonderful program like Democracy Now does a story on the White Helmets in Syria, the
What Police Videos Teach Us About Wars
By David Swanson Before people had an easy way to see video footage of police murders, headlines crediting the police with just and noble actions
“DO NOT RESIST”: THE POLICE MILITARIZATION DOCUMENTARY EVERYONE SHOULD SEE
By Ryan Devereaux, The Intercept ON A SUNNY AFTERNOON last summer, Craig Atkinson, a New York City-based filmmaker, stood in a front yard in South Carolina
U.S. MILITARY OPERATIONS ARE BIGGEST MOTIVATION FOR HOMEGROWN TERRORISTS, FBI STUDY FINDS
By Murtaza Hussain and Cora Currier, The Intercept A SECRET FBI STUDY found that anger over U.S. military operations abroad was the most commonly
Resisting U.S. War Making in Ireland
World Beyond War coordinating committee member Robert Fantina in Ireland: Sign the petition:
Berlin Anti-War March October 8 2016 – PEACE MEET AND PARTY DEALINGS
By Victor Grossman, Berlin Bulletin On Saturday, near my Berlin home, I joined a colorful, long-planned, all-German demonstration for peace. Pushing through the 7000 to
Renewable Revolutionary Railroad Renaissance
By David Swanson The forthcoming book from creative activist and kayaktivist extraordinaire Bill Moyer and his Backbone Campaign colleagues should remake the United States and
Talk Nation Radio: Ann Wright on the Women’s Boat to Gaza and Being Kidnapped by Israel in International Waters
https://soundcloud.com/davidcnswanson/talk-nation-radio-ann-wright-on-womens-boat-to-gaza-kidnapped-by-israel-in-international-waters Ann Wright is a retired U.S. State Department official and army colonel who resigned in 2003 in protest of the war on Iraq. She’s
Delusions of worthy wars
by Nicolas J S Davies Fifteen years ago, on October 19th 2001, Donald Rumsfeld addressed B-2 bomber crews at Whiteman AFB in Missouri, as they
Pine Gap ‘THE POISONED HEART OF AUSTRALIA’
On protests and IPAN Conference 2016 by Chris White October 11 With the revanchist Trump, and Obama and Clinton daily
Appendix
Resource Guide Peace Almanac – https://worldbeyondwar.org/calendar/ Mapping Military Madness Update 2015 – https://worldbeyondwar.org/mapping-military-madness-2015-update/ Where Your Income Tax Money Really Goes- https://www.warresisters.org/resources/pie-chart-flyers-where-your-income-tax-money-really-goes Peace Science Digest –
Conclusion
War is always a choice and it is always a bad choice. It is a choice that always leads to more war. It is not
Accelerating The Transition To An Alternative Security System
World Beyond War intends to accelerate the movement toward ending war and establishing a peace system in two ways: massive education, and nonviolent action to
Creating a Culture of Peace
The foregoing material might be likened to the hardware of an Alternative Global Security System. It dealt with the actual hardware of war and the
Outline of an Alternative Global Security System
No single strategy will end war. Strategies must be layered and woven together to be effective. In what follows, each element is stated as concisely
Why we Think a Peace System is Possible
Thinking that war is inevitable makes it so; it’s a self-fulfilling prophecy. Thinking that ending war is possible opens the door to constructive work on
Why is an Alternative Global Security System both Desirable and Necessary?
The Iron Cage of War: The Present War System Described When centralized states began to form in the ancient world, they were faced with a
World Congress in Berlin Demands Demilitarization of Minds
By Ramesh Jaura, Pressenza BERLIN (IDN) – “Since wars begin in the minds of men, it is in the minds of men that the
Women’s Boat to Gaza Participants See the Israeli Imposed Perpetual Darkness on Gaza
By Ann Wright Five hours after our Women’s Boat to Gaza, the Zaytouna-Oliva, was stopped in international waters by the Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF)
Introduction: A Blueprint for Ending War
Whatever purpose the war system might once have served, it has now become dysfunctional to future human survival, yet it has not been abolished. Patricia
A Vision of Peace
We will know we have achieved peace when the world is safe for all the children. They will play freely out of doors, never worrying
2016 A GLOBAL SECURITY SYSTEM: AN ALTERNATIVE TO WAR
Executive Summary Resting on a convincing body of evidence that violence is not a necessary component of conflict among states and between states and non-state
Why Aleppo is the symptom of what is wrong with how we deal with atrocities
By Patrick T. Hiller, PeaceVoice “Never again!” is once again brought to our attention as we are facing killing and suffering of civilians on a