Volunteer Spotlight: Patterson Deppen
This month’s volunteer spotlight features Patterson Deppen from New York, NY.
Human Rights Commission
Human Rights Commission, prose poem about the military coup in Chile by Gary Geddes
The Art of War: The African Lion is Hunting for New Prey
The African Lion, the largest military exercise on the African Continent planned and led by the US Army, has begun.
Arms Sales: What We Know About Bombs Being Dropped in Our Name
At some point before the summer of 2018, an arms deal from the US to Saudi Arabia was sealed and delivered.
Peace Activists Held Fast to Stop Canada’s Plan to Buy New Fighter Jets
Canadian peace activists held fast to stop Trudeau government from buying new warplanes.
The Nuclear Danger Gone?
When you raise the topic of war they’ll sometimes mention how there used to be a Cold War and a danger of nuclear apocalypse “back in the 80s.”
Rural Teacher Pedro Castillo Poised to Write a New Chapter in Peru’s History
With his wide-brimmed peasant hat and oversized teacher’s pencil held high, Peru’s Pedro Castillo has been traveling the country exhorting voters to get behind a call that has been particularly urgent during this devastating pandemic: “No más pobres en un país rico” – No more poor people in a rich country.
A World Beyond War or No World at All
So, we can have a world beyond war or we can have no world at all.
Audio: Peace Witness with Liz Remmerswaal
Nine episodes of Liz Remerswaal’s Peace Witness Podcast. Listen here.
Video: Why is Canada Arming Saudi Arabia’s War in Yemen?
The brutal U.S.-backed, Canada-armed, Saudi-led war in Yemen has gone on for over six years. This war has killed almost a quarter of a million people, and Yemen today remains the worst humanitarian crisis in the world.
For Memorial Day, Here is How We Stop all Wars
For Memorial Day week, Clearing the FOG speaks with David Swanson, the cofounder and executive director of World Beyond War, an international organization that is working to abolish all war.
Talk World Radio: Scott Horton on Ending the War on Terrorism
This Week on Talk World Radio, it’s time to end the terrorism-generating war on terrorism.
The Bloodied Hands of the Canada-Israel Drone Warfare Relationship
In one of the most gut-wrenching scenes from decades of Israeli attacks against Gaza, four children playing on a beach were murdered in 2014 by an Israeli drone strike.
Malcolm Gladwell Claims Satan Won WWII But Jesus Does Drone Strikes
I wish I were joking, even a little. Malcolm Gladwell’s book, The Bomber Mafia, maintains that Haywood Hansell was essentially Jesus tempted by the Devil when he refused to burn Japanese cities to the ground.
“If There Are Enough Shovels to Go Around” Surviving the Nuclear Threat
“Dig a hole, cover it with a couple of doors and then throw three feet of dirt on top… It’s the dirt that does it… If there are enough shovels to go around, everybody’s going to make it.”
WBW Podcast Episode 25: What Can the Antiwar Movement Do For Palestine and Gaza?
By Marc Eliot Stein, May 30, 2021 World BEYOND War · What Can The Antiwar Movement Do For Palestine and Gaza? For antiwar activists all
Letter: Objective of Zionism Has Been to Expel Palestinians from Their Land
The Israeli Nation-State law passed in 2018 confirms, both legally as well as in reality, that Israel is an apartheid state.
What Must be Done to Really Stop Child Killing: Israel et al
“Why would you just send a missile to them and kill them?” a 10 year old girl in Gaza
Henrique Garbino on Upcoming Online Course: War and the Environment: June 7 – July 18
Grounded in research on peace and ecological security, this course focusses on the relationship between two existential threats: war and environmental catastrophe.
Massive Military Spending Will not Solve Three Greatest Threats to our Safety and Security
Currently, the United States spends at least three quarters of a trillion dollars each year on the Pentagon.
Biden’s Budget Proposal Funds Most of the World’s Dictators
The United States funds most of the world’s most oppressive militaries, sells them weapons, and trains them.
Peace Activists Protest at Arms Factory Sabca in Belgium: “Time to Stop Arms Export to War Zones”
Since the start of the Corona crisis, the Belgian government has handed out 316 million euros to the military aircraft industry, research from the peace organisation Vredesactie shows.
An Online Course on War and The Environment: Spreading Knowledge Builds Power
An incredible online course will begin June 7th. Learn more and sign up.
Video: ‘The Silenced Nuclear Threat’
CN Live! host Elizabeth Vos interviews anti-nuclear weapons activists about the existential problem that should be front and center in the public debate.
Battle of South City
Tang Dynasty poet Li Bai, translated by Gary Geddes with the assistance of George Liang
More of the Same: Biden’s Hybrid War
US President Joe Biden’s budget proposal for the next fiscal year was recently announced, and it requests $715 billion for his first Pentagon budget, 1.6% more than the $704 billion enacted under Donald Trump’s administration.
The Emperor’s New Rules
The world is reeling in horror at the latest Israeli massacre of hundreds of men, women and children in Gaza.
Talk World Radio: Nora Barrows-Friedman on Palestine and Activism
This week on Talk World Radio we’re talking about activism on behalf of the basic human rights of Palestinians. Our guest is Nora Barrows-Friedman.
