On Monday evening, the City Council of Charlottesville passed a ceasefire in Gaza resolution by a vote of 3 to 1 with 1 abstention, after having voted it down two weeks prior by a vote of 2 to 3. The difference was Council Member Brian Pinkston, to his credit, having the decency to change his mind. Unchanged was the public pressure, as people were committed to fill every council meeting until they got
Talk World Radio: Gabriel Aguirre on Congress on Neutrality
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Tomgram: Joshua Frank, As the Rich Speed Off in Their Teslas
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Let’s face it: we’re now on a different planet in a different era and it matters not at all that a committee of the International Union of Geological Sciences wasn’t yet willing to officially call
Visual Database Lets You Examine Over 900 U.S. Bases Outside the United States
As World BEYOND War is steadily reporting on, the U.S. military is constantly adding more military bases outside the borders of the United States, and sometimes being blocked in its plans, and sometimes being ordered to leave.
With the help of numerous informants around the globe, World BEYOND War is tracking the ever-changing global archipelago of U.S. military outposts with an online tool that allows you to spin the globe, zoom in on a base, and see images and information about it.
We’ve also
Tomgram: Julia Gledhill and William Hartung, Failure as the Pentagon’s Ultimate Success Story
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It’s true that no nuclear weapon has been used (except in tests) since the U.S. dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945 to end World War II. And yes, we now know that, were there to be a nuclear confrontation
Talk World Radio: What’s Been Carefully Forgotten About Nixon and Kissinger
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What’s the Matter with NATO? In Under 4 Minutes!
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Speaking Truth to Empire
“Speaking Truth to Empire” on KFCF 88.1 FM independently owned and locally operated in Fresno since 1975, Dan Yaseen interviews Jodie Evans, she has been a peace, environmental, women’s rights and social justice activist for over forty-five years. She is the co-founder of CODEPINK. She has traveled extensively to war zones promoting and learning about peaceful resolutions to conflicts. Jodie has produced several acclaimed documentary films. They discuss, Israeli perpetrated
Tomgram: Andrea Mazzarino, A “Dictatorship” on Day One?
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Let’s start with the obvious. Yes, in the MAGA world of Donald Trump’s Republican Party, white supremacism and
The Pro-Peace Case to Stop Changing Our Clocks
By David Swanson, World BEYOND War, March 20, 2024
The first reason I’d like the United States to drop the whole ordeal of changing clocks twice a year is that it causes endless confusion and missed meetings for groups, organizations, and events that are not contained within the little 4% of humanity that lives in the United States. To make cross-border zoom meetings work, you have to either get people in the United States to learn what Coordinated Universal Time is, or make 96% of the world