‘Stop sucking up to America’: Japan’s youth rises up to protect pacifist constitution Protests are growing against moves to change Japan’s ‘supreme law’, a document written by the US that is now being challenged by Iran war

The kids in Japan are all right and telling their government to stop sucking up to the United States.

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War in Iran is causing biggest energy crisis in history, IEA says The war in the Middle East has choked up maritime traffic in ​the Strait of Hormuz.

I want to be furious about the worst energy crisis ever, but it's hard to be as mad about any price or hoarding or monopolizing or pirating of fossil fuels as I am about the use of fossil fuels. www.reuters.com/business/ene...

I have received more junk mail/texts from Democrats demanding to gerrymander Virginia than all other past issues combined and never a single message related to war, peace, budgets, healthcare, retirement, environment, education, or corruption.

Talk World Radio: Keith Kelleher on Organizing Workers AUDIO: Talk World Radio is recorded on Zoom. Here is this week’s video and all the videos on Youtube.

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He's never removed or impeached or prosecuted but he's constantly "ripped" and "savaged" and "shredded"

How Many People Have the United States and Israel Killed in Iran? - World BEYOND War As often happens, the truth may be even worse than we're being told. #WorldBEYONDWar

From Iraq to Afghanistan to Iran, one pattern repeats: the deaths of civilians are undercounted, disputed, or ignored. worldbeyondwar.org/how-many-peo...

It's No Accident That Trump's Iran War Steals Money From Healthcare and Education | Common Dreams ​Trump is currently asking for a $1.5 trillion military budget—a 64% increase in military spending since last year—which provides the budgetary pressure needed to justify gutting necessary programs…

Wealthy elites get tax cuts while the average American loses student loans and food stamps to fund a $1.5 trillion war machine.

What You See If You Go to Venezuela YouTube video by WorldBeyondWar.org

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War Is Never Just War Is Never Just (2016) — This book builds a case that the time has come to set behind us the idea that a war can ever be just. This critique of “Just War” theory finds the criteria such theories …

If we're all going to talk about who the proper authority is to talk about just war theory, we might want to see what's actually in it and why it never actually produces justice davidswanson.org/warisneverju...

The War Powers Resolution Is Not What You’ve Been Told According to The Hill, in an article typical of U.S. media, Trump’s war on Iran is totally legal for 60 days if Congress does nothing, after which it becomes illegal, unless Congress has expl…

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The War Powers Resolution Is Not What You’ve Been Told According to The Hill, in an article typical of U.S. media, Trump’s war on Iran is totally legal for 60 days if Congress does nothing, after which it becomes illegal, unless Congress has expl…

The War Powers Resolution Is Not What You’ve Been Told davidswanson.org/the-war-powe...

Will Youth Prisons Be Found Only in History Books? At least two-thirds of youth prisons and jails have been shut down. This is an enormous, dramatic, positive development in an era when most people imagine that the closest thing to good news out there...

Will Youth Prisons Be Found Only in History Books? progressivehub.net/will-youth-p...

Kamala would have probably massacred whoever Netanyahu wanted but without obnoxious social media posts. Spain would have probably opposed, and other countries would have certainly bowed and obeyed.

War Is a God YouTube video by Jesse Welles

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Some people try to emulate the kind and actually possible things attributed to Jesus. Others go exclusively for the magical bullshit. Which kind of person does the U.S. government put on the throne in the White House?

The Billionaires Have Two Parties. Yes, But . . . Les Leopold’s new book is called The Billionaire$ Have Two Parties: We Need One of Our Own. The point I like best in it is the following. Not only are the duopolistic parties of Republicans a…

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Just Try to Find a Book About Peace on Audible or Amazon Do you like audio books? I do. What about peace, do you like that? I’m referring to peace here as the absence of war. I’m not intending to challenge everyone’s favorite aphorism t…

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War Is A Religion YouTube video by David Swanson

Trump is not Jesus, but War Is a Religion www.youtube.com/watch?v=hU59...

Bombing Bushehr could be another Chornobyl Iran isn’t close to getting nuclear weapons. This is about oil and regime change

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If you're going to claim a war is to distract from Epstein are you now obliged to claim they've brought back Epstein to distract from a war?

Trump Declares Total Victory in Iran, Aims to Make Big Money & JD Vance Calls the Ceasefire Fragile YouTube video by Jimmy Kimmel Live

Kimmel has not stopped calling Trump a chicken for failing to genocide Iran, but does slip in one mention that he is glad Trump "chickened out." BREAKING NEWS: genocide is NOT bravery www.youtube.com/watch?v=EyCS...

GDAMS 2026 Appeal · A Call to Action Against Global Militarization - World BEYOND War We urge governments to undertake major reductions to their military expenditure and redirect those funds to social and environmental sectors, tackling the global challenges of our time and funding…

Global military spending keeps breaking records while public services, climate action, and human needs are left BEHIND. GDAMS 2026 is a call to change course: cut military budgets, invest in people. Join the global days of action (April 10–May 9)!

War is a choice and it’s always a bad choice! So true. We need to get rid of the war system! Phill Gittins of @world-beyond-war.bsky.social at the protest organised by @lakenheathalliance.bsky.social

Webinar: Women in Conflict Zones On Saturday, May 9 at 3 pm EDT, we will examine the problem of drone warfare and possible solutions. A panel of speakers will be followed by Q&A. Register to get the Zoom link!

Drone warfare is fueling devastating violence in Palestine & Sudan. What can be done? Join our May 9 webinar with global experts + Q&A.

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They’ll arrest people for protesting war, but not for launching it. buff.ly/ASc9ZUF

Webinar: Women in Conflict Zones The Women in Conflict Zones webinar on April 29 at 12pm ET will focus on the widening war in the SWANA/Middle East region launched by the U.S. and Israel against Iran.

War has gendered impacts that are too often ignored. Join us April 29 for a webinar creating space to examine how conflict affects those facing gender-based oppression, featuring voices from across the region. worldbeyondwar.org/women-in-con...

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Trump articles of impeachment introduced www.congress.gov/bill/119th-c...

Ralph Nader, Dennis Kucinich, & More: The Case for Impeaching Donald Trump (LIVESTREAM) YouTube video by The Real News Network

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