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Right-Wing Extremism and The Cold War Go Hand-In-Hand

U.S. “ironclad” support for militarism undercuts attempts to curb right-wing terrorism. From white supremacist violence in the West Bank to gendered violence in Olongapo, we can’t defeat at home what we export abroad. In his first month as secretary of…

US Foreign Policy Is a Scam Built on Corruption

The $1.5 trillion in military outlays each year is the scam that keeps on giving—to the military-industrial complex and the Washington insiders—even as it impoverishes and endangers America and the world. By Jeffrey D. Sachs On the surface, US foreign…

Canada Requires Peace Groups to Support War If They Want Charitable Status

In the United States, if you donate money to World BEYOND War, you can deduct that donation from the amount of money on which you pay taxes to fund the U.S. government, which uses over half of the income taxes it…

Contrasting Strategies of the US and China: Prospects for Peace and Solving Global Problems

Xi Jinping: “It is unrealistic for one side to remodel the other… the planet Earth is big enough for the two countries to succeed.”   Joe Biden: “We will not leave our future vulnerable to the whims of those who do…

Expert US Groups Launch Legal Action in Attempt to Ban Glyphosate Herbicides

A groundbreaking legal action launched Wednesday calls on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to immediately suspend and cancel the dangerous herbicide glyphosate, the main ingredient in Monsanto’s Roundup. By Sustainable Pulse Glyphosate’s registration is illegal, says the petition filed by Center…

Baloch Yakjahti committee Long March

On 29 October, Balach Baloch, son of Mola Bakhsh, was forcibly abducted by the Pakistani notorious police Counter Terrorism Department. On 23 November, the Counter Terrorism Department killed four innocent Baloch, including Balach Mola Bakhsh, in a fake encounter. Balach’s…

Milan, La Scala Theatre: powerful action against bombing in Gaza

La Scala Theatre in Milan, Saturday, Dec. 23, 2 p.m., dress rehearsal for the Christmas concert. Orchestra and choir are “in plain clothes,” the audience is “popular,” no one has paid. Now and then the conductor stops the orchestra players,…

The fight against extractivism will continue in the streets and on the roads despite government threats

Social organisations and socio-environmental assemblies from all over the country warn that, despite the government’s repressive threats, they will continue mobilising in defence of the territory and against agribusiness, mining and oil exploitation. They denounce the “Argentine fascism” of the…

Will Argentina fail in 2024?

Between 2019 and 2020 massive social uprisings shook the political scene in Chile, Ecuador and Colombia. The drops that overflowed the glass of popular (in)patience were the increase in the cost of public transport, the price of fuel and a…

Prague massacre: The Sleep of Reason that Breeds Monsters

Again this morning Prague woke up in shock from the terrible event of violence that shook the country on the afternoon of 21 December. By Sandro Curatolo A 24-year-old man broke into the Faculty of Philosophy of Carolina University, which…

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