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—David Swanson, Executive Director, World BEYOND War

Palestinians are being criminally deprived of food, water, and medicine. Those attempting to come to their aid should be assisted, not attacked.  

There is a need to amplify calls for neutrality as militarization in the region continues and rivalry between the U.S. and China persists.

• Online Course: War, Peace, and the Arts
• Book Club: The True Price of War
• Webinar: Afghans promoting peace and social justice in new lands
• Resistance Studies Conference
• #NoWar2026 Conference: Beyond Borders

• Stop Using Drone Warfare to Perpetrate Genocides in Palestine and Sudan
• Women in Conflict Zones
• Sesión Informativa Para Nuevos Capítulos en América Latina
• The Future of Irish Neutrality 

We’ve published an annual update of Mapping Militarism, our collection of maps of the globe illustrating trends in war and peace. Each map has a spinnable globe, each nation clickable for more information, or a list view for simple text and data — plus a slider to move back in time to previous years and see what has changed.

“Quite unexpectedly to my mind, scenes from past movies about German Nazi concentration camps seemed to appear out of nowhere almost in sequence as if building a narrative.”

• Israeli Attack on Flotilla Violated the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea
• Freedom Flotilla Defies Israeli Piracy, Launches Four New Vessels
• Israeli Navy Goes 700 Miles to Attack Unarmed Gaza Flotilla Boats
• Israeli Military Attacks Another Aid Flotilla
• A Note Dictated to a Lawyer for a Prisoner’s Daughter

WORLD:

• WBW Board President Kathy Kelly to Receive Berrigan-McAlister Award 
• Nuclear Weapons Didn’t Save Lives in 1945. They Wouldn’t Today Either 

AFRICA:

• On the Deportation of Migrants from the United States to Cameroon 
• Mali: War is Not a Solution 

LATIN AMERICA:

• Rally Held in Caracas in Support of Global Sumud Flotilla and Freedom for Palestine 
• Sesión Informativa Para Nuevos Capítulos en América Latina 

EUROPE:

• Over 185 Organisations Warn EU

ASIA:

• Gaza: Canary in the Coalmine 
• Hormuz and We All Lose 
• 47 Reasons to End War on Iran 
• VIDEO: Message to Iran and Everybody Else 
• Peace Walk for Palestinian Prisoners Held in Osaka, Japan 

NORTH AMERICA:

• Canada Selected to Host Global War Bank, But We’re Organizing to Stop it
• Intern Spotlight: Mark Birnbaum 
• Would You Want Aliens to Meet Neil deGrasse Tyson? 
• New Video: War Is Still A Racket 
• Talk World Radio: John Sayles on Crucible 

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