October 2010: The US military is responsible for the most egregious and widespread pollution of the planet, yet this information and accompanying documentation goes almost entirely unreported.
JENNY CLEGG looks ahead at a year where an increasingly multipolar world will challenge US dominance
"The founding proclamation of the UN: “We the peoples … determine to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war” also reaffirmed faith in fundamental human rights, and committed to establish conditions of respect for international treaties and laws, and to promote social progress and better standards of life.
It is now time to reassert the role of the UN at the centre of world politics by reclaiming the “We the people” declaration from below in a grass-roots movement for international co-operation on climate change alongside the fundamental principles of peace and social justice.
Roundtable with points of view from Kate Hudson, Aaron Voldman, historian Lawrence S. Wittner (coeditor of the forthcoming book Peace Action: Past, Present, and Future), and others. Focus is on RRW.
Roundtable with points of view from Kate Hudson, Aaron Voldman, historian Lawrence S. Wittner (coeditor of the forthcoming book Peace Action: Past, Present, and Future), and others. Focus is on RRW.
The conference stressed that in going forward, there is the need for unity in what is global strife and an international struggle; the need for networking, both at the conference and beyond; and education about U.S. military bases and militarism. The slide show, prepared by Sue Ann Martinson, is an overview of the conference.
Over 800 U.S./NATO Military Bases: the Resistance Builds
On January 20, Sarah Martin, Carol Walker, and Sue Ann Martinson from Women Against Military Madness delivered a report on the First International Conference Against U.S./NATO Foreign Military Bases that they attended this past November in Ireland. Approximately 300 participants from 35 countries participated in the conference, with speakers representing peace and justice movements from throughout the world, a first step in building a global network to oppose U.S./NATO bases.
Julian Aguon's book, No Country for Eight-Spot Butterflies, has very little indication in the cover, the blurbs, the prefac, that it opposes militarism or empire, but it does, and people are reading it. #WorldBEYONDWar
A bit of background in case you are interested:- Professional I am Director of the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute. I am also a part-time Professor of Peace and Conflict Studies at the University of Manchester, where I'm affiliated with the Humanitarian and Conflict Response Institute. Until August this year I was Secretary General of…
The Europe for Peace Declaration was drafted in 2007 by members of the humanist movement to promote disarmament and peace through the immense power of non-violence. Internationally, it has been endorsed by Noam Chomsky, Mikhail Gorbachev, Giulietto Chiesa, Dario Fo, Margherita Hack and many organisations have backed the Declaration.
The campaign has spread around the world, and one of its main achievements was to help stop the United States from building a space shield in the Czech Republic, despite the majority of the population being against it.
Now we are committed to stopping the madness of the war in Ukraine between Russia and the US before it explodes into a third world war.
"Libraries as information, education and cultural centers have a role in advancing peace internationally."
an initiative of the Mortenson Center , see http://www.library.illinois.edu/mortenson/about/history.html
A PEACEFUL SOLUTION TO THE IRAN CRISIS AND A NUCLEAR-FREE MIDDLE EAST PARLIAMENTARIANS AND CIVIL SOCIETY APPEAL ON IRAN AND NUCLEAR WEAPONS NO FIRST USE OF NUCLEAR WEAPONS
SÖNDAG 11 JUNI 2000 Vi är på väg mot en världsdiktatur och den en gång självständiga och kritiska svenska rösten har tystnat. De elva år som gått sen Berlinmurens fall är förlorade, vi har missat tidernas största chans att skapa en bättre värld, skriver Jan Öberg, fredsforskare i Lund.
World Beyond War , By Marc Eliot Stein, June 8, 2018
In early April, more than 3100 Google employees signed a letter that begins with the words “Google should not be in the business of war”. The letter is a response to the company’s participation in a new US Department of Defense artificial intelligence program called Project Maven, which it describes as a “customized AI surveillance engine” designed to interpret visual images from drones, and concludes with a powerful request from Google employees to their management:
“Recognizing Google’s moral and ethical responsibility, and the threat to Google’s reputation, we request that you:
1. Cancel this project immediately
2. Draft, publicize, and enforce a clear policy stating that neither Google nor its contractors will ever build warfare technology”