The Attack on Japan’s Peace Labor Union, Kansai Namakon
In the last few years, the government of Japan has severely cracked down on dozens of members of a branch of a labor union called the “Solidarity Union of Japan Construction and Transport Workers, Kansai Area Branch”
Demilitarizing the Mountains of Montenegro
High in the grassland mountains of Montenegro, within a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve and in between two UNESCO World Heritage sites, lies a stunning land with exquisite biodiversity and an uncommon symbiosis between small groups of pastoral herders and the green, flowering earth they cultivate.
World BEYOND War Podcast Episode 26: A Virtual Antiwar Gathering
By Marc Eliot Stein, June 29, 2021 World BEYOND War · A Virtual Antiwar Gathering We cover the #NoWar2021 global peace gathering in real time!
WBW News & Action: Demilitarize Climate Summits
Read our e-newsletter from June 28, 2021.
Talk World Radio: Michael Messner: Unconventional Combat
This week on Talk World Radio, U.S. military veterans. Our guest, Michael Messner is professor of sociology and gender studies at the University of Southern California.
Profiting from Misery – A Conversation with the Researchers
This is a QnA for our latest publication “Profiting from Misery”, with the Open Secrets researchers who worked on the report, Michael Marchant and Zen Mathe.
Guided Missiles, Misguided Policies, and Changing Direction Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love WWIII
If a society wanted to start WWIII without being aware of doing so, what would it do differently from what U.S. society is doing?
Okinawa, Again – The U.S. Air Force and the U.S. Marines Have Poisoned Okinawa’s Water and Fish with Massive Releases of PFAS. Now it’s the Army’s Turn.
On June 10, 2021, 2,400 liters of “firefighting water” containing PFAS (per-and poly fluoroalkyl substances) were accidentally released from the U.S. Army Oil Storage Facility in Uruma City and other nearby locations, according to Ryukyu Shimpo an Okinawan news agency.
How Biden Helped Hardliner Raisi Win Iran Election
It was common knowledge that a U.S. failure to rejoin the Iran nuclear deal (known as the JCPOA) before Iran’s June presidential election would help conservative hard-liners to win the election.
Talk World Radio: Julie Varughese on the Unending War on Afghanistan
By Talk World Radio, June 22, 2021 Talk World Radio is recorded as audio and video on Riverside.fm. Here is this week’s video and all
Remember to Forget the Alamo
Mexico once had a problem with a local provincial government promoting illegal immigration from the United States into Mexico in order to engage in the illegal slavery of illegally trafficked people.
William Astore, Big Lies Have Consequences, Too
Almost 20 years later, the U.S. military high command still didn’t want to leave the country where they had so impressively turned so many “corners” amid so much “progress” for so long.
A World Beyond War – What’s There to Gain, and How Is it Possible?
Host Len Beyea talks with 3 members of the Board of Directors of the international organization World BEYOND War.
Peace Foundation Criticises Rocket Lab New Zealand Government Response
Letter To the Prime Minister of New Zealand, Parliament House, Wellington
War is A Lie With David Swanson
David Swanson is an author, activist, journalist, and radio host. He is executive director of World BEYOND War and campaign coordinator for RootsAction.org. Swanson’s books include War Is A Lie and When the World Outlawed War.
Peace Witness: Zelda Grimshaw, Disrupt Land Forces campaign, Brisbane, Australia
Zelda Grimshaw has been a grassroots activist for earth rights and human rights since her teens.
Goodbye to an AUMF
With the U.S. House voting and the U.S. Senate promising to vote on repealing an AUMF (Authorization for the Use of Military Force) from 2002 (essentially a sort of weasely pseudo-permission for President George W. Bush to decide on his own whether to attack and destroy Iraq in violation of the UN Charter and Kellogg-Briand Pact, among other laws), we could end up saying good-bye to a shameful piece of legislation.
Registering Women for the Draft: Equality in Barbarism?
A world in which women can be drafted? That doesn’t register.
“Wake Up, the World is Dying”: Now Do Something About It
Longtime activist Angie Zelter, in the preface to her newest book, ACTIVISM FOR LIFE, says “It is 50 years since I left university, started my real education and began thinking how I could help create a better world.”
Beware Atlantic Charters
The last time the U.S. President and UK Prime Minister announced an “Atlantic Charter” it happened in secret, without public involvement, without Congress or Parliament.
Activists Banner over Seattle Freeway with Clear Message: “Abolish Nuclear Weapons”
Activists held a banner and signs over a busy Seattle freeway during the morning commute to remind people of the imperative to abolish nuclear weapons.
The American Empire of the West Deploys Troops for Battle
The NATO Summit took place yesterday at NATO headquarters in Brussels: the North Atlantic Council meeting at the highest level of State and Government Leaders.
Why Democracies in G7 & NATO Should Reject U.S. Leadership
The world has been treated to successive spectacles of national leaders gathering at a G7 Summit in Cornwall and a NATO Summit in Brussels.
World BEYOND War Is Both Pro-Peace and Anti-War
World BEYOND War strives to make clear that we are both in favor of peace and against war, engaged in striving to build peaceful systems and culture and engaged in working to demilitarize and abolish all preparations for wars.
Early Childhood Education Can Be Peace Education
In the process, he learned that in these tribal cultures, parents would not kill the parents of their children’s friends. Violá! A decrease in local and regional violence!
Interview: The End of Nuclear Weapons with Alice Slater
Alice Slater is the New York Director of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation and serves on the Board of World BEYOND War.
If They Chose, Biden and Putin Could Make the World Radically Safer
Presidents Biden and Putin could very easily make the world dramatically safer and redirect massive resources into benefitting humanity and the earth, if they were to choose to abolish nuclear weapons.
Bombs In Paradise: Missiles and Munitions Headed To Ewa Beach, Hawaii
The United States Army plans to build an enormous weapons facility storing stockpiles of conventional warheads and explosives right next to the residential housing communities of Ewa Beach, Ewa Villages, West Loch Estates, and Ewa Gentry, as well as beside the Pearl Harbor National Wildlife Refuge in Hawaii.