2024/03/01 Suva, Siji
70 years since the Castle Bravo nuclear test
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https://www.icanw.org/remembering_castle_bravo_fuels_struggles_for_justice
Israeli government poisons the region with firefighting foams containing PFAS
Israel is also a world leader in the production of deadly brominated flame retardants.
By Pat Elder January 27, 2024
An obscure 2022 report by the Israeli Ministry of Environmental Protection on PFAS provides shocking data on levels of PFAS contamination in the groundwater near oil installations in Haifa, Ashdod, and Kiryat Haim.
Poisoning Gaza
By Pat Elder January 31, 2024
Joshua Frank’s article, Making Gaza Unlivable ought to be read by everyone. Frank is the managing editor of CounterPunch. He describes the collapsing infrastructure and dire circumstances of Gaza in this January 12 story:
“Like the Allied forces of World War II, Israel is killing indiscriminately. …
2024/03/04-04/14 WBW online course
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2024/02/02 UNAC webinar 12 noon EST
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War and Climate Change
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2023/12/17 zoom
COP 28 Climate Summit in Dubai Report Back
ONLINE MEETING: COP 28 Climate Summit in Dubai Report Back with Tamara Lorincz
Co-hosted by WILPF Canada and the Canadian Voice of Women for Peace
Time: Sunday, December 17, 2023 11:00 am-12:00 pm PT | 1:00-2:00 pm ET
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2023/12/12 Hybrid event
War-driven Environmental Damage in Ukraine:
Perspectives on the Application of the Rome Statute and the Work of the International Criminal Court
Tuesday Dec 12th, 2023 1:00-2:30pm (Eastern Time USA)
Hybrid event
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For further information contact Shirleen Chin. Continue reading →
COP28’s Delinquent Emitter: The US Military Industrial Complex
As the world gathers at COP28 in Dubai amidst an accelerating climate crisis, the Oakland Institute’s new brief, Exempted! The US Military Industrial Complex and the Climate Crisis, reveals a critical blind spot in global climate agreements. Despite being the world’s largest institutional emitter of greenhouse gases, the US military is completely exempt from international reporting obligations, significantly undermining global climate action.
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El clima bajo fuego cruzado
Cómo el objetivo del 2% de gasto militar de la OTAN contribuye al colapso climático
https://www.tni.org/es/publicaci%C3%B3n/el-clima-bajo-fuego-cruzado
Nuevo tni report by Ho-Chih Lin, Nick Buxton, Mark Akkerman, Deborah Burton, Wendela de Vries,
Climate crossfire
How NATO’s 2% military spending targets contribute to climate breakdown
https://www.tni.org/en/publication/climate-crossfire
A new tni report by Ho-Chih Lin, Nick Buxton, Mark Akkerman, Deborah Burton, Wendela de Vries.
Knowledge alone is no substitute for strategy and action
The facts are well known: the world is facing a double suicide, the fast one by nuclear weapons and the slower one by climate disaster. 2 trillion arms expenditures per year, and 14,000 nuclear weapons in the process of being replaced by new ones in all nuclear weapon states, are central material expressions of this madness. Unrestrained arms export that fuel war on a daily basis and the automation and robotization of war intensified by AI development cast their murderous … Continue reading →
The military is poisoning the Chesapeake Bay
Front page article in the Baltimore Sun today. Maryland to begin testing drinking water, Chesapeake Bay oysters for harmful ‘forever chemicals’ known as PFAS Wisconsin limits fish consumption when waters reach 12 parts per trillion (ppt) of PFAS. My creek, directly across from a Navy base in Maryland, has 1,894.3 ppt of PFAS and people can eat all the oysters, crabs, and fish they want. 1 ppt may threaten human health, especially the developing fetus. There is tremendous concern that … Continue reading →
Talk Nation Radio: David Gibbs: Get Rid of NATO
https://worldbeyondwar.org/toxic-fire-fighting-foams-seeking-solutions-that-already-exist/
Das US-Militär verschmutzt die Umwelt stärker als 140 Länder
Das US-Militär verschmutzt die Umwelt stärker als 140 Länder Amerikanische Kampfjets, Transporter und Kriegsschiffe brauchen Unmengen Treibstoff – und verursachen damit gleich viel CO2 wie die ganze Schweiz. Mittwoch 26. Juni 2019 20:32 von Yannick Wiget, Dino Caracciolo https://www.bazonline.ch/wissen/natur/das-usmilitaer-verschmutzt-die-umwelt-staerker-als-140-laender/story/23828059
Continue reading →You wanna close bases? You wanna shut down NATO?
There are lessons in the article below that address a loss of human dignity and honor at the hands of an oppressive, ruthless American empire that is poisoning people around the world. The similarities between Germany and Japan are striking 74 years after 1945. People will rise up when they learn they’re being poisoned. The US Military is Poisoning Okinawa https://worldbeyondwar.org/the-us-military-is-poisoning-okinawa/ Pat Elder Addendum Devil’s Been Busy Travelling Wilburys https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AdMXNbjHYh8 Tom Petty: While you’re strolling down the fairway Showing … Continue reading →
What’s in your water? Dems cave on military contamination
Another piece from me.. And more lessons for my European comrades in this revolutionary struggle. This one does the work the New York Times and the Washington Post weren’t interested in covering. It documents how the Democrats are a war and poison party and shows that the Dems are every bit as despicable as the Republicans.
What’s in your water? by Pat Elder
Democrats Back Down From Battle With Defense Department Over PFAS
https://truthout.org/articles/democrats-back-down-from-battle-with-defense-department-over-pfas/