Some books shouldn’t have to exist, but you’re glad they do. This one describes a whole field of work — using art-creation to help kids in Arizona and Southern California deal with trauma created by anti-immigrant policies and attitudes — which shouldn’t have to exist, but you’re glad it does. The book is called Drawing Deportation: Art and Resistance Among Immigrant Children by Sylvia Rodriguez Vega. The author has worked with kids in school classes, helping them to create
New Report Highlights Military Background in Mass Killers
By David Swanson, World BEYOND War, June 14, 2023
A new report from the University of Maryland, somewhat misleadingly reported on here, draws on a database
Talk World Radio: Matthew Hoh on Making Peace in Ukraine
This is the June 28 Episode, published early.
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Talk World Radio: Adrienne Pine on Sanctioning Countries and Then Refusing to Admit Refugees
This is the June 21 Episode, published early.
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Can You See War?
The buzzing noise of a drone never ceases. A missile screaming into your house is hard to miss. Gun fire. The door kicked in. These are not subtle gestures. Yet Norman Solomon’s new book is called War Made Invisible. What?
Of course, the people whose government is the leading war maker and weapons dealer mostly have nothing to do with war. Most of them are not in the military. Most of them do not work for the weapons business. Most of them cannot name most of the wars currently happening. And
Talk World Radio: Norman Solomon on War Made Invisible
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Dead Ukrainians and Russians Have Not Died in Vain, As Long As We Keep the Dying Going
By David Swanson, World BEYOND War, June 11, 2023
Yuval Noah Harari’s book, Homo Deus, has plenty of insights, plenty of worries that may prove justified, and a fair bit of silliness. But it’s hard to argue with his summary of the Our Boys Didn’t Die in Vain Syndrome:
“The narrating self is the star of Jorge Luis Borges’s story A Problem. The story deals with Don Quixote, the eponymous hero of Cervantes’s famous novel. Don Quixote creates for himself an imaginary world in which
The Problem of Peaceful Societies for the Belief in the Necessity of War
By David Swanson, World BEYOND War, June 11, 2023
For any given war, one can examine the months or years or decades during which one or both sides worked diligently to make it happen, and both sides conspicuously failed to develop peaceful alternatives. Even in the moment of greatest violence, one can consider the unarmed-resistance alternatives that are carefully kept out of consideration.
But even if you can explain away all justification
Austrian Censorship of Peace Conference Is An Outrage
By David Swanson, Executive Director of World BEYOND War; Kathy Kelly, President of World BEYOND War; John Reuwer, Board Member of World BEYOND War; Brad Wolf, Director of Peace Action, Lancaster, PA
Forty-eight hours before a global peace conference in Vienna, Austria, was to begin, the venue host abruptly cancelled. Peace, it seems, cannot be discussed, especially peace in Ukraine.
This news is a disturbing step in a growing trend.
Owners of the venue which was to host the Summit for Peace
Talk World Radio: The Wobblies and the Capitalist War on Radical Workers
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