Articles by World Beyond War
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Quick Quiz: Mapping Militarism 2023
David Swanson | World Beyond War – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 May 2023
2 May 2023 – A picture can be worth a couple of trillion dollars–when it’s of military spending. A new ‘Mapping Militarism 2023’ is available. You can pick a map and zoom in and out, click on a country to get details, move the slider back to see earlier years, switch to list-view and get the information in text form, or click “source” to see the origins of the data and exactly what it means.
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See 867 US Military Bases on New Online Tool
World Beyond War - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Nov 2022
14 Nov 2022 – World BEYOND War has launched a new online tool that allows viewing 867 U.S. military bases outside the USA, and to zoom in for a detailed information on each base. It also allows filtering the map or list of bases by country, government type, opening date, number of personnel, or acres of land occupied.
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Top 10 Reasons Sweden and Finland Will Regret Joining NATO
David Swanson | World Beyond War - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Sep 2022
7 Sep 2022 – Friendly advice to my brothers and sisters in Finland and Sweden.
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The Pentagon and CIA Have Shaped Thousands of Hollywood Movies into Super Effective Propaganda
David Swanson| World Beyond War - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jan 2022
5 Jan 2022 – Propaganda is most impactful when people don’t think it’s propaganda, and most decisive when it’s censorship you never knew happened. When we imagine that the U.S. military only occasionally and slightly influences U.S. movies, we are extremely badly deceived.
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How to End the War in Afghanistan
World BEYOND War - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Nov 2020
19 Nov 2020 – The U.S. war on Afghanistan is in its 19th year. Enough is enough! Ann Wright is the moderator. Panelists are Kathy Kelly, Matthew Hoh, Rory Fanning, Danny Sjursen, and Arash Azizzada.
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The Case against Iraqing Iran
David Swanson | World Beyond War – MintPress News,
18 Dec 2017
Planning war and funding war creates its own momentum. Sanctions become, as with Iraq, a stepping stone to war. Cutting off diplomacy leaves few options open. Electoral pissing contests take us all where most of us did not want to be.
→ read full articleDesertion: A Long, Proud History
CJ Hinke, World Beyond War - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jul 2015
There are as many reasons to desert military service as there are deserters. All countries’ militaries like to snatch young men when they are uneducated, inexperienced, and unemployed. You can do no greater good than refusing to kill. If you are in the military, anybody’s military, do the right thing: RUN AWAY!
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David Swanson, World Beyond War – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jul 2015
Of the top 100 weapons makers in the world, not a single one is based in Africa. Only 1 is in South or Central America. Fifteen are in Western allies and protectorates in Asia (and China is not included in the list). Three are in Israel, one in Ukraine, and 13 in Russia. Sixty-six are in the United States, Western Europe, and Canada. Forty are in the U.S. alone. Seventeen of the top 30 are in the U.S. Six of the top 10 mega-profiteers are in the U.S. The other four in the top 10 are in Western Europe.
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CJ Hinke, World Beyond War – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jul 2015
Incredibly, in the 21st-century, roughly half of the world’s nation-states practice military conscription. The countries on this list may still be enforcing military conscription.
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World Beyond War – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jul 2015
Have you ever wondered and investigated how many US military bases exist in the world, where exactly, and at what cost, to what purpose, and in terms of what relationship with the host nations? A wonderfully researched new book, six years in the works, answers these questions in a manner you’ll find engaging whether you’ve ever asked them or not. It’s called ‘Base Nation: How U.S. Military Bases Harm America and the World’ by David Vine.
→ read full articlePutin Shot Down a Plane! Putin Shot Down a … What? Never Mind
World Beyond War – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Dec 2014
The world outside of the U.S. media is full of evidence suggesting that Russia did not do it. The silence is deafening. Dutch plans to produce a dubious report by next summer are being outpaced by steps toward war.
→ read full article100 Years of War-100 Years of Peace and the Peace Movement, 1914-2014
Peter van den Dungen, World Beyond War – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jul 2014
The West, and the rest of the world, would indeed be a great deal more civilised if war – ‘the foulest blot upon our civilization’ in the words of Andrew Carnegie – was abolished. When he said so, Hiroshima and Nagasaki were still Japanese cities like any other.
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World Beyond War – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jun 2014
World Beyond War has created a set of online interactive maps to help us all see where and how war and preparations for war exist in the world today. We’ll be updating some of these maps with new data every year and displaying animation of the progress away from war or the regress toward more war as the case may be.
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