Military
HEGE Series
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U.S. Military Spending vs Other Top Countries
The Trillion Dollar Silencer
— The military’s deep penetration into all aspects of American life has hampered the development of a strong anti-war movement—at a time when it is desperately needed.
U.S. Military Bases Abroad, 2020
— In 2020, the United States controlled around 800 bases outside the 50 U.S. states and Washington, DC. Map reflects bases’ relative number and positioning given best available data. For ease of comparison we use contemporary borders and a Mercator projection.
War Resisters League
— The United States’ oldest secular pacifist organization, the War Resisters League has been resisting war at home and war abroad since 1923. Our work for nonviolent revolution has spanned decades and been shaped by the new visions and strategies of each generation’s peacemakers.
Where Your Income Tax Money Really Goes
Why Does U.S. Navy Allow Officers to Commit Gory Murders and Other Atrocities with Impunity?
Ted Hall | Wikipedia
Is History Repeating Itself? And Who Will Be Today’s Ted Hall? An Interview with the Director of “A Compassionate Spy”
Steve James’ ‘A Compassionate Spy,’ about a UChicago physicist who leaked nuclear secrets to the Soviets, premieres at Venice and Telluride
A Compassionate Spy: Official clip [Venice] 2022 | YouTube
Protests on Martin Luther King Jr. Day Raise Hopes For Revitalization of Antiwar Movement
EATR – A steam-powered, biomass-eating military robot for Pentagon
Peace
THE TRILLION DOLLAR SILENCER: Why There Is So Little Anti-War Protest in the United States
National Priorities Project: A project of the Institute for Policy Studies
Finally, A School that Teaches Kids to Protest War and Support Peace
Veterans for Peace
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Veterans for Peace
End corporate rule to end wars and occupations
— Endless US wars and occupations are driven by the political and economic power of US corporations. Hundreds of US military bases around the world provide those corporations “security” to access foreign markets, cheap labor and raw materials. Resisting one war, occupation, weapon system or sweatshop article of clothing at a time will never result in peace, justice and a livable world.
We must fight individual corporate evils AND end corporate rule in all its forms.
War
Who‘s Afraid of Alice Miller?
— “War and persecution live on in the descendants of victims and cause great suffering every day, and that is the subject of this film. Severe war trauma lasts longer than one lifetime. It is passed on to the next generations. Although Martin was born in the safety of Switzerland in 1950, the abyss of the Holocaust continues to wreak havoc within him today.”
Orthodox Christian Perspectives on War
Peace and War in the Eastern Orthodox Church
Just war | OrthodoxWiki
Messing With the Merchants of Death
— “The United Nations reports that we now have the highest number of violent conflicts since World War II. Against that backdrop, we have little anti-war action world-wide.”
The profiteers of war: Companies fueling the Israeli assault on Gaza
— Unveiling the corporate gears of war: A comprehensive look at the companies behind Israel's devastating military campaign in Gaza.
Gaza’s tragic toll: Over 20,000 dead amidst starvation and war
— In the shadow of conflict: exploring the dire human cost of war in Gaza.
I was opposed to World War II, and indeed on June 22, 1941 when Hitler invaded the Soviet Union I suddenly found myself the lone supporter of peace since everybody else had, because of their communist beliefs, shifted over to become supporters of the war. — Douglass North If there is no sufficient reason for war, the war party will make war on one pretext, then invent another... after the war is on. — Robert M. La Folette When people speak to you about a preventive war, you tell them to go and fight it. After my experience, I have come to hate war. War settles nothing. — Dwight David Eisenhower In this world, which is so plainly the antechamber of another, there are no happy men. The true division of humanity is between those who live in light and those who live in darkness. Our aim must be to diminish the number of the latter and increase the number of the former. — Victor Hugo
James Nachtwey
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Frontline war photographer James Nachtwey: Capturing conflict, heroism, history
In a way, if an individual assumes the risk of placing himself in the middle of a war to communicate to the rest of the world what’s happening, he’s trying to negotiate for peace. Perhaps that’s the reason for those in charge of perpetuating the war do not like to have photographers around. — James Nachtwey