MILITARISM & WAR
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Peace Week for Fleet Week Los Angeles 2022
March 31 2022 / Gary Ghirardi / NNOMY - I received an invitation from Rachel Brunke, a newly joined steering committee member of NNOMY and an organizer for Codepink San Pedro, to come up from our office in San Diego and participate in their Peace Week activities during the Memorial Day weekend. Getting out of the The National Network Opposing the Militarization of Youth office and making it up ...
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How to start a demilitarization project
Here are some tips of important elements to look for when starting a demilitarization campaign. STOPPING A PROJECT The most direct way to demilitarize research is to force the cancellation of a ...
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History Of U.S. Intervention
Since the September 11 attacks on the United States, most people in the world agree that the perpetrators need to be brought to justice, without killing many thousands of civilians in the process. ...
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Impact Of Militarism
All who draw the sword will die by the sword. -- Yeshua Ha-Notsri, Palestinian dissident, c. 33 CE. As we all know – or rather, as everyone but those who climb and claw their way to the top of ...
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Cost Of Militarism
In 2007, the world spent approximately $1.1 trillion on military expenditure - for making weapons and training people to kill, rather than for creating a better and sustainable world for all. An ...
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Realities Of War
Old soldiers in the Civil War coined a phrase for green troops who survived their first taste of battle: "He has seen the elephant." This Army lieutenant sums up the combat experience better than ...
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Militarism & War
Militarism is a value system that stresses the superiority of some people over others. Under militarism, the people deemed inferior are dehumanized as enemies who must be overpowered by any means ...