Tag: Global War and Violence

War Resisters International – Tactics for Combating Militarism (2013) / Stopping the War Business: SEOUL, 16-17 October 2015

First posted July 21, 2015 Stopping the War Business: talking tactics and linking methods, SEOUL, 16-17 October 2015Summary http://www.wri-irg.org/node/22197 Thank you for joining War Resisters International and the New Tactics community for an online conversation on tactics for combating the militarisation of education, public spaces, vulnerable communities, entertainment and culture, from June 10 to 14, 2013. Governments… Read More War Resisters International – Tactics for Combating Militarism (2013) / Stopping the War Business: SEOUL, 16-17 October 2015

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The billionaire companies behind Israel’s bombs

By Betsey Piette On May 10,  Secretary of State Antony Blinken addressed Congress and lied. He said: “We do not currently assess that the Israeli government is prohibiting or otherwise restricting the transport or delivery of U.S. humanitarian assistance.” This is despite an explosive report given to Blinken in April 2024, from the State Department’s Refugees… Read More The billionaire companies behind Israel’s bombs

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As a Palestinian living in the US, I have lost friends, job opportunities – and my faith in humanity

History did not start on 7 October 2023. While that date may mark a tragedy for Israel, every single day for the last 76 years has marked some sort of catastrophe for Palestinians. My paternal grandparents originally lived in Haifa; in 1948, during the Nakba, they were among the 700,000 Palestinians forced to flee or expelled… Read More As a Palestinian living in the US, I have lost friends, job opportunities – and my faith in humanity

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Karen Greenberg, The Forever Prison and the Forever Wars

according to the Costs of War Project, the USA ended up spending at least $8 trillion on those wars. According to that project, an estimated 940,000 people died directly thanks to America’s war on terror (almost half of them civilians) and 3.6 to 3.8 million indirectly in its war zones, bringing the total to nearly five million dead…. that group has estimated that… Read More Karen Greenberg, The Forever Prison and the Forever Wars

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When will this horror end? When Israel realises that the cost of destroying us is too high

Israel often narrates relations between Israelis and Palestinians as replete with traumas that are never forgotten and are used “to legitimate the killing of Palestinians as an effective tool to preserve a secure Jewish state and prepare Israeli youth to be good soldiers and to carry on the practices of occupation”, as Israeli professor Nurit… Read More When will this horror end? When Israel realises that the cost of destroying us is too high

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The United States is already at war

And it is very much a willing belligerent in a conflict of its own making. Belén Fernández Yesterday, Iran fired a barrage of missiles at Israel in retaliation for Israel’s assassination in Beirut of Hezbollah secretary-general Hassan Nasrallah last week and its assassination in Tehran of Hamas’s political chief Ismail Haniyeh in July. United States President Joe Biden instructed the US… Read More The United States is already at war

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In Gaza, we have one question for the rest of the world: aren’t we human, just like you?

Every night we huddle together and pray our building doesn’t collapse over us. Who will stop this war – and give us a future? A voice from Gaza Living in Gaza has given me a profound and often challenging perspective on life. I am a person who doesn’t usually feel afraid, but the things we are seeing… Read More In Gaza, we have one question for the rest of the world: aren’t we human, just like you?

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The Oceanic Circle: Talk on the occasion of Mahatma Gandhi’s 155th birthday

NB: This is the text of the talk I delivered on October 2 at the Gandhi Peace Foundation, New Delhi. DS The bane of our life is our exclusive provincialism, whereas my province must be co-extensive with the Indian boundary so that ultimately it extends to the boundary of the earth. Else it perishes – Mahatma Gandhi,… Read More The Oceanic Circle: Talk on the occasion of Mahatma Gandhi’s 155th birthday

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Historical Origins of the War in Palestine: Lecture by Madhavan K. Palat

Historical Origins of the War in Palestine GAZA casualties, live statistics United Nations Documentation on the Origins and Evolution of the Palestine Problem United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide The war in Palestine has three players: Israel; the USA, with its European satellites fully backing Israel; and Palestinians, isolated, a people… Read More Historical Origins of the War in Palestine: Lecture by Madhavan K. Palat

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Israelis Must Ask Themselves if They’re Willing to Live in a Country That Lives on Blood

Gideon Levy Israel is turning, with alarming speed, into a country that lives on blood. The daily crimes of the occupation are already less relevant. Over the past year, a new reality of mass killing and crimes of an entirely different scale has emerged. We are in a genocidal reality; the blood of tens of… Read More Israelis Must Ask Themselves if They’re Willing to Live in a Country That Lives on Blood

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