World Beyond War Newsletter
Posted: 4th August 2025
Eighty years after the nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, we need to take this moment to press for the elimination of omnicidal weaponry. See the resources below, including the new online course that starts today. And check out the incredible video of our recent awards event with Roger Waters and Ralph Nader. Also see below the new report with which we have brought the major media in Canada to discuss the ongoing Canadian armament of Israel’s genocide in Gaza. There is much more - keep reading.
David Swanson, Executive Director, World BEYOND War
Upcoming Events
Visit WBW’s Global Events Calendar to find events and add your own events!
Hiroshima and Nagasaki Anniversaries (August 6, 9)
The anniversaries of the nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 6 and 9, 1945, are opportunities to join in or create educational and activist events aimed at preventing any more nuclear bombings.
War, Peace, and Law: An Online Course
Law is not fixed. Around the world, people continue to use it—as a tool of resistance, a path to reform, and a foundation for peace. This new online course begins today.
More Upcoming Events:
- Book Club: Christina and the Whitefish - Weekly in August. Register.
- Webinar: AFRICOM & Human Rights in Africa - August 13. Register.
- Book Club: Our Journey from Afghanistan - Weekly in September. Register.
- #NoWar2025: Exploring Abolition Movements - October 24-26. Register.
Webinar Recordings:
- Recording: 2025 War Abolisher Awards went to Nader, Waters, Albanese
- Podcast: War Abolishers of 2025
- Recording: RDC N’est il Pas Trop Lourd?
- Recording: “We Cannot Say We Did Not Know”
- Recording: Arms Embargo Now: Urgent Movement Briefing
Recent Activities
World BEYOND War and Allies Release Report on Arms to Israel
- The Report
- Video of Press Event
- Minister Anand Responds to Our Report, Continues to Deceive the Canadian Public
- A Media Splash, Government Response, and More
Online Actions
Also try our new online Abolish War game
News from Around the World
No, Nuking Cities Did Not Save Lives
No, Nuking Cities Did Not Save Lives
It’s oddly encouraging that the New York Post had to bring up its kookiest rightwing propagandist on Friday to argue that nuking Hiroshima and Nagasaki saved lives. It’s even more encouraging that the Post felt obliged to expand the usual definition of “lives” to include the lives of Japanese people, claiming that nuking people saved not only U.S. lives but also Japanese lives — an argument it would have been very hard to find even being attempted during the early decades of this myth.
More Articles from Around the Globe:
WORLD
- To Free Ourselves, We Must Free Palestine
- Every Child Is Born Pre-Polluted
- Rethink Sanctions. They’re Killing as Many People as War Does.
EUROPE
- 50th Anniversary of Helsinki Accords Marked With New Initiative for Peace
- Videos: Pacifist Barricade with Hans Hedrich on Law, Eniko Vincze on Capitalism
- The First Crack in NATO’s Fortress? Slovenia Opens the Referendum Conundrum
ASIA
- Talk World Radio: Norman Solomon on the State of the Genocide
- The U.S. Advances Its Dystopian Plan to Destroy China
- U.S. Consular Officials from U.S. Embassy-Israel Have NOT Visited US Citizens
- Talk World Radio: Kathy Kelly on Afghanistan and Gaza
- Guilty of the “Crime” of Being Palestinian. Punishment: Execution
AMERICAS
- How the Military Industrial Complex Chose What Killed the Dinosaurs
- The Genocidal Partnership of Israel and the United States
- U.S. Congress Can Stop Genocide – Why Won’t They?
- The Universal Pain of Grief: From Gaza’s Genocide to Camp Mystic Floods
- Asking Wisconsin to Give the Militarism a Break for One Day
- CrossTalk | TACO President?
Accepting Written & Visual Submissions
The Sahira Collective is pleased to announce that we’re hosting a collaborative mini-issue with World BEYOND War. This will be an opportunity for writers, artists, and other creatives to present their works — to display the meaning of home, especially when it has been overpowered, or distorted, by war. LEARN MORE.
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