America’s Afghan War Is (Partially) Over, So What About Iraq – and Iran?
At Bagram air-base, Afghan scrap merchants are already picking through the graveyard of U.S. military equipment that was until recently the headquarters of America’s 20-year occupation of their country.
Indigenous Peoples Decry Militarism in the Pacific – United Nations Human Rights Council 47
Featuring Indigenous peoples from the Ryukyu Islands (Okinawa), the Mariana Islands (Guam and CNMI), and the Hawaiian Islands.
Overcoming Decades of Division between India & Pakistan: Building Peace Across the Radcliffe Line
As the clock struck midnight on August 15, 1947, celebratory shouts of freedom from colonial rule were drowned out by the cries of millions frantically making their way through the corpse-littered landscape of nascent India and Pakistan.
Videos: Okinawa Memorial Day 2021
On June 23, there was an Okinawa Memorial Day online Zoom event. Here you can watch all the collected videos with English/Japanese subtitles entirely on the YOUTUBE channel, “Stand With Okinawa NY” one by one.
WBW News & Action: Pipe Dream or Work in Progress?
Read our e-newsletter from July 12, 2021.
110+ Groups’ Letter to President Biden Calling for an End to the U.S. Program of Lethal Strikes Abroad
On June 30, 2021, 113 organizations from the United States and around the world sent a letter to President Biden calling for an end to the U.S. program of lethal strikes outside recognized battlefields, including through the use of drones.
Peace Witness – Liz Chats With Murray Horton From Campaign Against Foreign Control Of Aoteoroa
Liz Chats With Murray Horton From Campaign Against Foreign Control Of Aoteoroa.
The Pentagon Has Invited Me to a Propaganda Show About How It Poisons Water Around the World
The Pentagon has invited me to their upcoming virtual Dog and Pony Show!
NATO Wants to Close Hungary Behind an Iron Curtain – Declaration of the Hungarian Peace Community
NATO and the European Union have launched a coordinated political attack on Hungary to end our cooperation with China and Russia.
World BEYOND War Spain Helps Establish First International City of Peace in Spain
A team of peace activists has helped to establish Soto de Luiña as an International City of Peace, the first in Spain.
Biden Defends Ending a War He’s Not Fully Ending
It’s been a dream of peace-loving people everywhere for over 20 years now for a U.S. government to end a war and to speak in support of having done so.
U.S. Wargames in Nordic Region Aimed at Moscow
Warplanes F-16, from the US´s 480 Fighter Squadron, took off from Luleå/Kallax airfield on June 7th 2021 at 9 o´clock. This was the start for war training and coordination with the Swedish warplane, JAS 39 Gripen.
Why Daniel Hale deserves gratitude, not prison
These words hung in the air on a recent Saturday evening, projected onto several Washington, D.C. buildings, above the face of a courageous whistleblower facing 10 years in prison.
How One Town Kicked Out Raytheon
A webinar was held on June 16th to review a success story.
West Papuan Peace Activists Disrupt a Massive Arms Fair
West Papuans are currently engaged in a full-scale, nationwide, nonviolent insurrection. They demand all Indonesian troops to be withdrawn and for the internet to be switched on.
Volunteer Spotlight: Eva Beggiato
The July 2021 volunteer spotlight features Eva Beggiato from Italy.
Video: Africa/Europe/Middle East Opening Plenary for Global Peace Conference 2021
Moderated by Phill Gittins of World BEYOND War.
Video: Ending America’s Forever War in Korea
On the 71st anniversary of what is officially recognized as the start of the Korean War, World BEYOND War hosted a panel discussion with preeminent Korea historian Bruce Cumings, Korean-American peace activist Christine Ahn, and Youngjae KIM, a peace activist based in Seongju, South Korea.
The Way Between
What if a better approach to raising children than feeding them the muck that makes up war culture but instructing them to not play with guns, were to introduce them to a little peace culture?
Talk World Radio: Yurii Sheliazhenko on Ukraine as Imperial Chess Board
This week on Talk World Radio, we’re discussing Ukraine, war, and peace.
Angelo Cardona Received the Diana Award
Colombian peace activist and World Beyond War’s Advisory Board and Youth Network member Angelo Cardona received the Diana Award in honour of the late Diana, Princess of Wales for his outstanding contribution for peace in Latin America.
Mike Gravel and An Ongoing Road to Courage
“There’s only one thing worse than a soldier dying in vain; it’s more soldiers dying in vain.”
The Art of War – Atlantic Stormwind in the Black Sea
The large aeronaval maneuver Sea Breeze, officially “co-hosted by the United States and Ukraine” in the Black Sea, began yesterday.
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?
