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Behold, the New GOP Culture Wars

The Republican Party’s latest wave of attacks against anyone who threatens the white supremacist patriarchy is couched in false concern for health and well-being. By Sonali Kolhatkar Republicans are resorting to their age-old tactic of manufactured moral outrage to distract…

PSOE and French far right support Morocco in the European Parliament

The vote of the Spanish Socialist Workers’ Party in the European Parliament alongside the French extreme right is increasingly inexplicable from the point of view of human rights and ethics. A vote against freedom of information and expression in Morocco.…

Roger Waters Questioned in Depth About Ukraine, Russia, Israel, U.S.

By Berliner Zeitung, February 4, 2023 The original at the link above is in German. This translation was provided to World BEYOND War by Roger Waters. Roger Waters can rightly claim to be the mastermind behind Pink Floyd. He came up…

Walls Speak // Walls as Canvases for Artistic Creation

With the documentary Las paredes hablan, Carlos Saura brings to the screen the art of the walls to show us a different way of looking at the relationship between the prehistoric graffiti discovered in many caves and the graffiti that…

In Support of Pope Francis’s Initiative for Peace Negotiations: David Andersson

Please, watch and share this short testimony: February 4: LIVE CONFERENCE — In Support of Pope Francis’s Initiative for Peace Negotiations When: Feb 4, 2023 10:00 AM Eastern Time (US and Canada) Topic: The Age of Reason or the Annihilation…

Can Artificial Intelligence (AI) language models and programs, advance the importance of global peace, nonviolence, and promoting nuclear disarmament?

Are Peace chatbots in the near future? Here we go! AI-based language computer models and programs, such as chatbots are currently trending over the internet. There is much talk about AI, as well as it’s human-to-human connectivity, and the projected…

Nobel Prize Winner Stiglitz wants 70% tax on top incomes

Nobel Prize winner Joseph Stiglitz is concerned about increasing social inequality in the world. The gap between rich and poor is widening. To reverse the trend, he calls for the super-rich to pay a higher income tax and a wealth…

Cold War 2.0, retrograde insistence that everything repeats itself

Cold War II or Cold War 2.0 are not the titles of a fictional film (yet) but terms used by unimaginative analysts who insist that history is repeating itself, as a parallel to the Cold War between 1945 and 1991,…

On the Ukraine Crisis and No First Use of Nuclear Weapons

By Daisaku Ikeda The following is the text of the statement by peacebuilder and Buddhist leader Daisaku Ikeda, who is president of the Soka Gakkai International (SGI). The Ukraine crisis that erupted in February last year continues with no prospect…

War and Peace: Animosity and Insanity Destroying the Earth and Humanity

The hell of human suffering, evil and oppression is paved with good intentions. The men who have most injured and oppressed humanity, who have most deeply sinned against it, were according to their standards and their conscience, good men; what…

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