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The struggle against war is everyone’s struggle: diary from the NO MUOS protest camp 

Niscemi, Sicily – 46 enormous antenna masts, spread out over a vast stretch of Sicilian countryside, protected by tall fences and hedges of razor-sharp concertina wire. Further away, hidden from view, three enormous satellite dishes receive and transmit communications that…

War Abolisher Award Winners Announced

The 2023 War Abolisher Awards have been announced. See the announcements and acceptance videos, and those from past years too, at https://worldbeyondwar.org/war-abolisher-awards The 2023 Individual War Abolisher Award goes to Sultana Khaya. The 2023 Organizational War Abolisher Award goes to…

The Moneyless Economy Is Thriving in America

The free and shared goods economy is creating community resilience and alternatives to trash culture for millions of people. By April M. Short Humans have a serious stuff problem. We keep making and buying new things when most of the…

Herodotus: What is the best form of government

What is the best form of government? The theme is always topical in Italy. The answer to this question, however, has not yet found unanimous agreement. In the world, in fact, republics, parliamentary or presidential, alternate with monarchies, whether constitutional…

Marina di Carrara, Open Arms blocked while people are dying at sea.

Why don’t we dare to say it? Better one migrant dead at sea than one more who disembarks. Period. But not having the courage to say this simple truth, they make some word games, even propeller games. Four or five…

How People Are Fighting the World’s Reliance on the War Economy

Many people are already investing themselves in the local peace economy as they divest from the economy of war. By April M. Short War is not innate to humanity; it is learned culturally, and intentional systems of peace can prevent…

Brazil: Public consultation reinforces rejection of the “New Baccalaureate”. The government backs the changes

In 2017, under the government of former president Michel Temer, Brazil approved a controversial reform of secondary education, considered by experts to be anti-reform because it reproduces an anachronistic, exclusionary and perverse model. In the face of criticism, Lula’s government…

When your health centre is a wasteland for more than 20 years, and all that remains

Trade unions and social groups denounce the fact that, during election periods, the Community of Madrid is filled with posters announcing the forthcoming construction of a health centre. Some of them have been like this for up to two decades.…

India towards the G20: the police block access to the We20 People’s Summit of social movements

It will certainly be true that with the next G20, Narendra Modi’s India will play its most important game on the front of the so-called ‘international balance’ within the framework of that widely shared instance of multilateralism, as it has…

The plundering of Africa

Africa is back in the news and has become an area of high international tension. The memory of the Libyan war and the destruction of that country still lingers in the minds of its neighbours. The coup d’état in Niger…

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