A blog about a criminal enterprise
By World Federalist Movement, Institute for Global Policy, November 2, 2021
Speakers:
Mr. Keith Best, Executive Chair, WFM/IGP
Mr. Vijay Mehta, Chair, Uniting for Peace
Mr. David Swanson, Executive Director, World BEYOND War
Mr. Stephen Hockman QC, Barrister at Six Pump Court Chambers
Ms. Jennifer Trahan, Professor, New York University’s Center for Global Affairs and Director of Concentration in International Law and Human Rights
Ms. Marjolijn Snippe, Executive
By David Swanson, World BEYOND War, November 1, 2021
When the New York Times is paying Thomas Friedman many thousands of dollars to wonder whether Russia or China would help the United States if space aliens attack it, a few conclusions can be drawn.
The ludicrousness of the UFO propaganda coming out of a U.S. military establishment unable to gin up a credible enemy on Earth to justify weapons production is invisible to its own proponents.
The eagerness of Russia and China to ban weapons from space
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Ann Jones began her remarkable book Kabul in Winter: Life Without Peace in Afghanistan this way: “I went to Afghanistan after the bombing stopped. Somehow, I felt obliged to help pick up the pieces. I
By Peace Action Maine, October 31, 2021
Devon Grayson-Wallace, Peace Action Maine, facilitator
Lisa Savage, Maine Natural Guard
Janet Weil, Veterans For Peace, CCMP
David Swanson, World BEYOND War
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Stuart Parkinson is Executive Director of Scientists for Global Responsibility. He has been an expert reviewer for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and provided advice to UK negotiators to the UN climate change convention. He then spent a year working for Friends of The Earth, co-ordinating research and policy work highlighting the link between environmental
By RT, October 29, 2021
Sign the petition: http://cop26.info
By People-Powered Planet Podcast, October 28, 2021
David Swanson, co-founder of World BEYOND War will tell us about the big campaign to get COP26 to include the biggest source of environmental damage of all: the Military/War System.
See David’s clever story “Harry Potter and the Secret of COP26”
War and war preparations are one of biggest greenhouse gas emitters. Yet they are excluded from COP26! World Beyond War has brought together hundreds of organizations and thousands of individuals
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The request arrived by email, but read as if it were from another age. Would I be open, an executive assistant asked, to having tea with the president of an Ivy League university? A longtime éminence grise, the president, still new to the job, was interested in discussing with a select group of young scholars how to guide this renowned educational institution into
By David Swanson, World BEYOND War, October 27, 2021
In a remarkable feat of epistemic magic, 500 environmental and peace organizations and nearly 25,000 individuals have endorsed a petition that will be delivered to the COP26 climate conference — a petition proposing a solution that could add dramatically to efforts to protect the Earth’s climate, but a solution that it is impossible for most members of the homo sapiens species to become aware of.
This seems a bizarre claim, but it
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Don’t imagine that anything truly began at the Capitol on January 6th. Admittedly, as TomDispatch regular Alfred McCoy, author of the upcoming imperial history