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One day they will tell what happened there

By Avner Wishnitzer. Avner is a co-founder of Combatants for Peace and a professor of history at Tel Aviv University. We reprint with his permission this recent article for the Hebrew-language online publication Local Call. One day they’ll tell about…

Foreign Military Bases and Resistance to Them Are Spreading

A new report by the global peace group World BEYOND War finds that military bases used by foreign militaries are growing in number, as are public protests and advocacy against those bases. Of 1,247 foreign military bases in the world,…

Trump vs UN: The sanction against Francesca Albanese and the business behind the genocide in Gaza

The decision by Donald Trump’s administration to sanction Francesca Albanese, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian Territories, is not only an unprecedented political reprisal against an international official. It is also a direct attempt to delegitimize a…

Carney’s government decision is breaking with the Canadian culture of peace

During the last decades and during the cold war, all the Canadian government choose not to increase the expenses in defenses has NATO demanded. The existential threat posed by the possibility of a nuclear war between the Soviet Union and…

When Aid Kills: BRICS Confront the Lethal ‘Humanitarian Assistance’ Model in Gaza

The Ethical Bar Shifts: BRICS as an International Turning Point It was no ordinary summit. The BRICS’ statement in Rio de Janeiro on July 7, 2025, was not only forceful—it was unprecedented. For the first time, a bloc of major…

Black Alliance for Peace Launches Petition Drive Calling on the U.S. and Israel to be Excluded from All International Sporting Events for Crimes Against Humanity and Domestic Repression

June 30, 2025 – The Black Alliance for Peace (BAP) calls for the Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) and the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to withdraw the invitations for the United States to host the World Cup in 2026…

What Ukraine hopes to learn from Croatia’s demining experience

Recently at the Ukraine Southeast Europe summit, Croatian Prime Minister Andrej Plenković reiterated his country’s commitment to support Ukraine in its demining efforts in addition to a continuation of humanitarian, economic and military aid. This comes after the two nations…

Veterans & Allies Fast for Gaza: 40 days of solidarity and compassion

Whenever you get to thinking that people lack compassion and generally can’t be trusted with the planet, I recommend you re-read this article. By Mike Ferner On May 22, 2025, several members of Veterans For Peace, along with some allies,…

July 8-9 Schiller Institute European Conference Summary

On the Verge of a New World War—European Nations Must Cooperate with the Global South! by Kevin Gribbroek July 9—A two-day international conference was held this weekend in Strasbourg, France by the Schiller Institute, titled “On the Verge of a…

Dismantling War Culture: How Militarization Shapes Our Everyday Lives

We are living in a particular moment where mainstream communicators want you to believe the world is in a state of permanent war—even when you are walking peacefully down your own street. Your phone relentlessly feeds you images of bombings.…

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