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By World BEYOND War, May 24, 2025
World BEYOND War & Fashioning for Social Environmental Justice on Saturday, May 24 displayed the Global Peace Flag Project at The Ellipse in front of the White House in Washington, D.C.
The Global Peace Flag consists of canvases displaying artwork and messages of peace from around the world, including from the U.S., Cuba, Nepal, India, Congo, Egypt, Sri Lanka, and
By David Swanson, World BEYOND War, May 22, 2025
World BEYOND War has just released its 2025 edition of Mapping Militarism, which uses 24 interactive maps to highlight the state of war and peace on our planet. Each map allows the viewer to spin the globe, zoom in and out, scroll the timeline back through the years, or switch from map view to list view. Try it.
In 2024, unbeknownst to many people living in luckier parts of the world, there were not just two or three wars happening, but
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Hey, this doesn’t happen every day at TomDispatch! In my introduction to TD pieces, I usually focus on developing events on this strange planet of ours, but today let me focus instead on Greg Grandin’s latest book, America,
According to world-leading war-profiteer Lockheed Martin, its Golden Dome, marketed for it by Donald Trump, “stands as a layered defense shield, safeguarding the American homeland with unwavering precision, ensuring the security and resilience of our nation.” But it doesn’t exactly “stand” anywhere in the present day or what some of us like to call “reality.” Rather, it’s
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Even in retrospect, it seems inconceivable. Yes, you may still not believe it but the Trump administration recently chartered yet another flight for immigrants, except this one wasn’t leaving the country, heading for a prison in
As Stacy Bannerman has been telling us for decades, the U.S. military has a domestic violence problem. So do some other — and I strongly suspect all — militaries.
The Pentagon has long known about the significantly increased risk of domestic violence by combat-exposed troops, yet has failed to properly inform military members or their families, and has violated laws mandating reporting on the problem.
This lack of transparency and breach of legal responsibilities has left thousands of spouses,
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I wonder if, in Donald Trump’s America, the very word “immigrant” should be changed to something like “ex-migrant.” The latest news, as I wrote this introduction, was that deporting immigrants to Venezuela, El Salvador, Panama, and other places in Central America wasn’t faintly enough for the Trump administration. It was instead planning to deport a group of Asian
By Transnational Institute, May 19, 2025
David Swanson argues that if military spending made us safer, the world would be at peace — but instead, we see record-breaking budgets fueling endless war. He criticises NATO as a bloated, unaccountable war machine that thrives on militarism for profit, promoting ever-increasing arms spending while gutting essential services like healthcare and education. Swanson warns that U.S. media narratives, especially those painting Trump as anti-NATO, manipulate
I’ve grown used to random compliments from strangers. It’s normal now. I have to think back years to what it was like without that. And they’re not just compliments, but also expressions of solidarity, revelations of the existence of people who agree and aren’t afraid to say so — or maybe that I’ve just helped them to become unafraid to say so. These compliments, which can initiate discussions and deeper engagement, have nothing more to do with me than the shirt I’m wearing. And