Drone Murder Has Been Normalized
The small scale of drone murders even seemed to open some eyes to the horror of the larger scale of the wars of which the drone murders were a part.
Why Senators Must Reject Avril Haines for Intelligence
Joe Biden has nominated Avril Haines as DNI, and she is tainted by torture.
Video: David Swanson discusses ending war with people far from eager to agree
Here’s a video of a webinar I did recently with a group people many of whom were not at all eager to agree to the idea of abolishing war.
World BEYOND War Is Helping War Victims Integrate into a Community in Cameroon
By Guy Feugap, National Coordinator, Cameroon for a World BEYOND War World BEYOND War has created a website for Rohi Foundation Cameroon. I was recently
Stories from the Front Lines: Amidst the COVID-19 Pandemic, Israel is Still Oppressing the Gazan People with the Blockade and Bombings
Israel is whipping the Gazan people with the blockade and wars, affecting every aspect of life in Gaza
Peace activists mobilize to oppose $27 million in county incentives for new Pratt & Whitney jet engine manufacturing plant in Asheville, NC
A group of activists with peace groups in Western NC became highly concerned upon learning of plans by Pratt & Whitney (P&W), a subsidiary of military contractor Raytheon Technologies, to manufacture jet engines parts on 100 acres of pristine land along the French Broad River given to them for $1 dollar by Biltmore Farms, LLC as part of a secret deal.
Biden Wants to Convene an International ‘Summit for Democracy’. He Shouldn’t
To undo the damage Trump has wrought at home and abroad, the US must move beyond outdated foreign policy ideas.
Peace Witness-24-12-2020 Liz Chats With Award Winning Australian Film Maker and Journalist John Pilger – Part 1
Peace Witness hosted the award-winning Australian filmmaker and journalist John Pilger.
Solidarity from Canada with the Farmers March in India
Our sustainable liveable futures are interconnected. Let us support all farm workers.
Talk Nation Radio: Will Trump Attack Iran?
Michael T. Klare, The Nation’s defense correspondent, is professor emeritus of peace and world-security studies at Hampshire College and senior visiting fellow at the Arms Control Association in Washington, DC.
Half Moon Bay Hangs Flag for Peace
Half Moon Bay has hung a flag outside City Hall made by students highlighting their ideas of peace that will eventually travel to the United Nations in 2021.
No, Joe, Don’t Roll out the Red Carpet for Torture Enablers
Protests are building against the idea of including torture apologists in the Joe Biden administration.
Where the Path Is Melting
Chad Norman lives beside the high-tides of the Bay of Fundy, Truro, Nova Scotia. He has given talks and readings in Denmark, Sweden, Wales, Ireland, Scotland, America, and across Canada. His poems appear in publications around the world and have been translated into Danish, Albanian, Romanian, Turkish, Italian, and Polish.
World BEYOND War Podcast: “This Is America” With Donnal Walter, Odile Hugonot Haber, Gar Smith, John Reuwer, Alice Slater
What’s wrong with the USA? And what can we do about it? World BEYOND War board members from different parts of the troubled North American country known as the United States talk about Trumpism, cultural divides, Green New Deal, deeper issues and hopeful solutions.
Afghanistan’s Rising Civilian Death Toll Due To Airstrikes, 2017-2020
From the last year of the Obama administration to the last full year of recorded data during the Trump administration, the number of civilians killed by U.S.-led airstrikes in Afghanistan increased by 330 percent.
Webinar: Peace & Permaculture
World BEYOND War organized a webinar to explore the intersections between permaculture, farming, simple living, and anti-war activism.
How to Avoid a War in Asia
CODEPINK held a webinar to discuss the Korea Peace Now campaign; the China is Not our Enemy campaign; Denuclearization in Asia; Visions of a World Beyond War and World Beyond War’s campaign to close US military bases.
German Government Coalition In Turmoil After Social Democratic Party Decide Against Armed Drones
Mützenich, faction leader for the SPD said in a parliamentary group meeting that the debate about the controversial armaments project called for in the coalition agreement with the Union has not yet taken place.
Podcast: Greta Zarro & Brian Terrell on Peace Through Permaculture
Is the ultimate solution deceptively simple: Grow our own good food and mind our own damn business? That’s my takeaway from the work of Greta Zarro, Organizing Director of World Beyond War and co-founder of Unadilla Community Farm, and Brian Terrell, an Iowan farmer and long-time peace activist.
Letter: Sugar Coating Fighter Jets Contract for Nova Scotia
An update of Nova Scotians’ future participation in the arms trade and the ongoing attention peace activists across Canada are beaming onto the $19 billion purchase of 88 new fighter jets.
Elon Musk (Space X) Has Gone Nuts
It is time for the adults in the room to sit the out-of-control and spoiled child down and inform him that he does not own the universe. No, Elon, you are not going to be the master of Mars.
Action Needed on Yemen: Join International Day of Action on January 25
The war in Yemen has entered its sixth, devastating year. Over 100,000 people have died and millions are on the brink of famine. The United States government is complicit in this war; millions worth of arms have been sold to the Saudi coalition since the start of the war, US planes have helped refuel Saudi planes and directed the bombings.
Talk Nation Radio: Nicolas Davies on Ceasing to Create Terrorists
Nicolas “Sandy” Davies is a freelance writer, a researcher for CODEPINK and the author of Blood On Our Hands: the American Invasion and Destruction of Iraq.
Where Did the War on Cancer Come From?
Did you ever wonder whether Western culture focuses on destroying rather than preventing cancer, and talks about it with all the language of a war against an enemy, just because that’s how this culture does things, or whether the approach to cancer was actually created by people waging a real war?
Dannevirke Military Parade’s Close Timing With Christmas Parade Upsets Peace Advocate
A Hawke’s Bay peace advocate says the sight of 100 soldiers marching down Dannevirke’s main street as part of a charter parade earlier in December was “inappropriate” so close to Christmas.
Bristol MoD Site Blockaded: “Spend Money On Climate Action, Not On Weapons”
Early this morning, protesters from Extinction Rebellion Bristol and Christian Climate Action blocked access to the Ministry of Defence (MoD) site at Abbey Wood near Bristol.
Will Biden’s America Stop Creating Terrorists?
The militarized counterterrorism policy Biden has supported in the past—based on airstrikes, special operations and the use of proxy forces—is precisely what keeps USA’s conflicts raging.
WBW News & Action: Peace Season
There’s a lot of news about what we’ve been doing and what’s coming next.
27 Things We Can Do to Let There Be Peace on Earth
Note that many of these items are U.S.-specific, and one is particularly for Ohio. The video included here was with the Columbus (Ohio) Free Press. But many of these are steps needed everywhere on earth.
