The Urgent Need to Attack Iran Has Been Falsely Advertised for 20 Years
For a couple of decades now, the very worst people in Washington, D.C., have pushed hard for a war on Iran. Some high points have come in 2007, 2015, 2017, and 2024. Each time it has been absolutely critical to attack Iran at once. #WorldBEYONDWar
Poem for a World BEYOND War
Michelle Vong is 2023 Oakland Youth Poet Vice Laureate. She recited this poem at a World BEYOND War event in Oakland, California, on January 28, 2024. #WorldBEYONDWar
Military Moral Injury: Dr. Kelly Denton-Borhaug
A fascinating conversation with Dr. Kelly Denton-Borhaug. #WorldBEYONDWar
WBW at 10: A Look Inside (Podcast)
Special episode of the World BEYOND War podcast: a look inside our organization’s day-to-day work, with guest host Maria Santelli.
The Budget Is the Skeleton of the State
U.S. war spending for FY 2024 is nearing $1 Trillion. Spending on nuclear weapons, while only a small percentage of this total, is at the highest level on record. #WorldBEYONDWar
Smearing Ceasefire Protesters, Pelosi Combines Devotion to Israel with Cold-War Mania
Grasping at straws, Pelosi evidently hopes for some political benefit by casting blame on Russia for how Biden’s deference to Israel has met with strong public opposition and erosion of support for re-election. #WorldBEYONDWar
Wars Get More Money Than We’re Capable of Understanding
We could do all kinds of unimagined things, insane-sounding things, to prevent mass killing if we were willing to spend on the prevention of mass killing the kind of sums that are spent on the mass killing. #WorldBEYONDWar
World BEYOND War Supports Gaza Ceasefire March to Port of Napier New Zealand
In photos is World BEYOND War Vice President Liz Remmerswaal. #WorldBEYONDWar
Madison for a World BEYOND War Holds Event in Wisconsin State Capitol to Demand a Ceasefire and No More Weapons to Israel
Madison for a World BEYOND War and allies gathered in the Wisconsin state capitol on Friday to urge Wisconsin’s U.S. senators to vote No on the Biden administration’s request for another $14 billion of military “aid” for Israel. #WorldBEYONDWar
PBS: Pentagon Broadcasting Service?
Viewers of the PBS NewsHour who are media literate have long recognized the pro-U.S. bias in its coverage of U.S. foreign policy. #WorldBEYONDWar
International Court of Justice Rules That Israel Must Stop Killing Palestinians
The International Court of Justice has ruled that Israel must cease its warmaking in Gaza, and that the case charging Israel with genocide must proceed. #WorldBEYONDWar
In Canada, Members of Parliament Among Over 250 People Hunger Striking for Arms Embargo on Israel
Over 250 Canadians across 11 provinces, including two sitting Members of Parliament, are on hunger strike calling on the Canadian government to enforce an arms embargo on Israel. #WorldBEYONDWar
Do We Value Anything Else as Much as Military Spending?
The 2020 Democratic Party Platform said that Democrats would reduce military spending: “We can maintain a strong defense and protect our safety and security for less.” Right on! Get out the vote! #WorldBEYONDWar
Trudeau Government Accused Of Sowing Confusion Over Israel Military Exports
“This is not how a state that claims to have strong protections in place for the export of arms should be behaving.” Oh Canada. #WorldBEYONDWar
Raising Public Awareness of U.S. Military Spending
Audio of discussion with Sonali Kolhatkar and David Swanson on military budget and what could be done instead. #WorldBEYONDWar
Biden Must Choose Between a Ceasefire in Gaza and a Regional War
Biden can continue to give Israel carte-blanche to wipe out the people of Gaza, and watch as the region becomes further engulfed in flames, or he can listen to his own campaign staff, who insist on a ceasefire. #WorldBEYONDWar
Robert C. Koehler: The Need for Understanding Never Stops
War is not required by a particular lifestyle or standard of living because any lifestyle can be changed, because unsustainable practices must end by definition with or without war, and because war actually impoverishes societies that use it. #WorldBEYONDWar
The Final Bombing Campaign of Afghanistan
This new video focuses on the last attempts by U.S. Presidents to bomb the Afghans into submission. It is a tragic story of a military empire using massive weapons in a doomed attempt to force its will upon an indigenous people. #WorldBEYONDWar
Look at This Ceasefire Billboard in Little Rock, Arkansas
Arkansas Coalition for Peace and Justice (ACPJ) has put up a billboard that reads “Almost Half of the people in Gaza are CHILDREN!! Text Ceasefire to 209.285.1017 peaceforgaza.org.” #WorldBEYONDWar
Letter from U.S. Citizens Formally Requesting the Termination of the Japan-U.S. Joint Committee
Secret government is extremely dangerous, as well as inappropriate for a nation waging and arming wars around the world in the name of “democracy.” #WorldBEYONDWar
WBW News & Action: NoWar
Read our email newsletter from January 22, 2024. #WorldBEYONDWar
Talk World Radio: Eva Galanes-Rosenbaum, Stephen Miles, Trita Parsi on Gaza
This week we’re speaking with Eva Galanes-Rosenbaum, Stephen Miles, Trita Parsi, about Israel, Gaza, genocide, public opinion, and what to do about it. #WorldBEYONDWar
Webinar: La Naturaleza del Conflicto en Ecuador
La actual situación en Ecuador son los siguientes panelistas: Yumac Ortiz: Presidenta de CPAZ; Eduardo Meneses: Politólogo, analista político internacional; Maria Fernanda Andrade: Psicóloga, activista defensora de DDHH. #WorldBEYONDWar
How the Gaza War Can Be Big News and Invisible at the Same Time
What we do routinely see is reporting that’s as different from the actual war as a pointed finger is from the moon. #WorldBEYONDWar
Achetez Notre Calendrier De La Paix!
Le calendrier africain de la paix vous y amène: chaque jour de l’année, vous découvrirez des événements, des personnes des citations et proverbes africain appelant à la paix et à la fin des guerres en Afrique. #WorldBEYONDWar
Volunteer Spotlight: Gabbita Mruthyunjaya Sastry
This month’s Volunteer Spotlight features Gabbita Mruthyunjaya Sastry, who volunteers with WBW’s Events Calendar team. #WorldBEYONDWar
Talk World Radio: Henning Melber on Germany Backing Another Genocide
This week on Talk World Radio we’re discussing Namibia’s denunciation of Germany’s support for Israel’s defense against South Africa’s case that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza. #WorldBEYONDWar
VIDEO: Nonviolent Action, Unarmed Civilian Protection: A Way Forward to Justice & Peace
“The question is no longer between violence and non-violence, it is between non-violence and non-existence.” ~Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. #WorldBEYONDWar
What I Saw at the International Court of Justice
This past Wednesday night, January 10, I flew out from Newburgh, NY, headed toward Amsterdam and then to The Hague for the International Court of Justice hearing on South Africa’s charges of genocide against Israel. #WorldBEYONDWar
A Healing Response To War: Doug Hostetter
Doug Hostetter travelled to Afghanistan immediately after 9/11 taking with him thousands of pounds of food for Afghan families he knew would be caught in the center of a vicious war on civilians. #WorldBEYONDWar
