By David Swanson, World BEYOND War, May 1, 2020

A new collection of maps found here displays what militarism looks like in the world. Here’s a brief guide to using and understanding them.

Across the top are 10 drop-down menus on these topics: Wars, Weapons, U.S. Weapons, Money, Nukes, Chemical and Biological, U.S. Military, Air Strikes, Law, and Promotes Peace and Security.

Some of the topics only include one map, others multiple maps. The one with the most has eight maps. When you click on read more

Mark your calendars, Forward to your lists, Contact to cosponsor as an organization that will forward to its list RSVP: https://actionnetwork.org/events/building-the-peace-movement-teach-in/

Building the Peace Movement Teach-In

Start: Wednesday, May 20, 2020• 8:00 PM • Eastern Daylight Time (US & Canada) (GMT-04:00)

End: Wednesday, May 20, 2020•10:00 PM • Eastern Daylight Time (US & Canada) (GMT-04:00)

Host Contact Info: David, david@worldbeyondwar.org

Join us for a free teach-in on “Building the Peace Movement.” Bring your questions and suggestions. We’ll hear briefly from a number of key speakers before moving into Q&A.

50^th Anniversary : 1970-2020, Remember Kent State, Jackson State, and all the victims of wars.

Sponsors include: Cleveland Peace Action, The Inter-Religious Task Force on Central America (Cleveland), Columbus Free Press, Daytonians Against War Now! (DAWN), CODEPINK, World BEYOND War, Green Party Peace Action read more

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By David Swanson, World BEYOND War, April 26, 2020

UPDATE: Full Video in Italian:

David Swanson was to speak at a conference in Florence, Italy, on April 25, 2020. The conference became a video instead. Below is the video and text of Swanson’s portion. As soon as we receive the video or text of the whole, in Italian or English, we will post it at worldbeyondwar.org. The video aired on April 25 on PandoraTV and on ByoBlu. Details on the full conference are here.

Sadly, Giulietto Chiesa, read more

By Any Means Necessary

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In this episode of By Any Means Necessary, hosts Sean Blackmon and Jacquie Luqman are joined by Democratic Wisconsin State Senator Lena Taylor to talk about the new lawsuit by the Republican-controlled legislature attempting to force the state’s residents back to work amid the pandemic, how political brinkmanship left dozens of voters and election officials sickened with coronavirus after primaries were held despite the danger, and how read more

This kicked off a five-part webinar series by introducing the why, what, and how of divestment. Why do we want to divest from war? What is the war machine? How do we actually divest? We were joined by: CODEPINK’s Divest from the War Machine Campaign organizers Carley Towne and Cody Urban, World BEYOND War’s Organizing Director Greta Zarro, and World BEYOND War’s Co-Founder & Executive Director David Swanson. We talked about the strategies and tactics needed to run a divestment campaign. read more

Did you know that the U.S. government has done something odd with your tax dollars? The ones you get so furious and indignant about when they’re used to feed anybody who’s hungry? It has given over 280 billion of those dollars to the government of Israel (not counting classified hush-hush super-secret amounts).

Source.

Israel is not a poor country. It is certainly not the poorest in the world. Why is it the top recipient of “aid.”

It isn’t. Its military is. Most of those billions of dollars read more

By David Swanson

Dear Mr. Katstra,

First of all, thanks for your terrific work on the greatest team ever which I think we are all safe in assuming would have repeated last year’s championship this year if the season hadn’t been shut down. Maybe I’m biased. The point is I’m a fan and an alumnus who found very disturbing an article titled “Virginia’s Austin Katstra lays the foundation for a career in counterterrorism.”

That article reported: “Austin Katstra’s interest in counterterrorism read more

It’s another bad bailout, folks, but what did we expect when we’re counting on the Democrats to protect workers?

LISTEN HERE.

Dr. Marvin Weinbaum, director of Afghanistan and Pakistan studies at the Middle East Institute, joined Misfits Bob Schlehuber and Jamarl Thomas to talk about the peace agreement that is supposedly still in force in Afghanistan, even as conflict continues there. He explains what was wrong with the agreement from the start, how the hurdle of prisoner releases is going, read more