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Canada Requires Peace Groups to Support War If They Want Charitable Status
By David Swanson, World BEYOND War, December 27, 2023
In the United States, if you donate money to World BEYOND War, you can deduct that donation from the amount of money on which you pay taxes to fund the U.S. government, which uses over half of the income taxes it brings in to fund the U.S. military. World BEYOND War will then take that funding and use it to educate people about the need to abolish militaries. So it’s a double whammy for peace.
In Canada, we in the United States like to think,
Talk World Radio: Should New Zealand Abolish its Military?
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Talk World Radio: Jeff Cohen on What’s Wrong with Corporate Media and What Kind of Media Would End All War
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How Can We Still Pretend to Be for Peace? Let Me Count the Ways
By David Swanson, World BEYOND War, December 13, 2023
On December 13th the New York Times promoted 10 paths to peace in Gaza. I had been wondering where the pretense had gone. We teach our children to be
Talk World Radio: James Monroe Helps Bury the Monroe Doctrine
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Philosophy Should Not Be Dumbed Down into War Propaganda by The Hill Newspaper
On December 9, The Hill published “Will America fail the Peter Singer test in Ukraine?” by Alexander J. Motyl, which began:
“Are the MAGA Republicans who want to cut off U.S. aid to Ukraine acting ethically? To put the matter bluntly, are they supporting the war crimes Russia is committing in Ukraine or not?”
Presumably those of us who dislike fascistic buffoons AND pointless endless murderous wars that risk nuclear apocalypse while slaughtering people, devastating the environment, impeding
Infrastructure for Peace – What Works?
By David Swanson, World BEYOND War, December 9, 2023
Remarks at Conference of GAMIP (Global Alliance for Ministries and Infrastructures for Peace)
I’m sorry I’ve been too busy to have slides here, and am lucky just to have words. I’m also sorry there are so many Davids, King David being a horrible figure to name us all after, but David Adams and many other Davids are redeeming the name, I think.
Here we are in a moment when the world’s most self-righteous, self-appointed overseers of an
What If New Zealand Were to Abolish Its Military
By David Swanson, World BEYOND War, December 7, 2023
The world should read a new book from New Zealand called Abolishing the Military. New Zealand has decidedly not yet followed Costa Rica and stashed its military in a museum. And were it to do so, I can virtually guarantee you that CNN would never mention the act. But the argument for doing so is powerfully laid out in this book and — whether the authors mean it to or not — applies with very slight tweaking to any nation on Earth.
First
What the People Have to Say About Weaponizing the World
By David Swanson, World BEYOND War, December 6, 2023
The petition at this link is called “No More Weapons Shipments to Ukraine, Israel, or Taiwan.” It’s addressed to the U.S. government and reads : “Stop the weapons shipments, and replace them with diplomacy and a new focus on the human and environmental crises that these wars defund, distract from, and exacerbate.”
People have added the following comments when signing it:
“Please wise up and recognize that this Earth and the life it