Appeasement – The World’s Biggest Lie
A. Hitler and Appeasement. Even now around the world, “appeasement” is seen as the argument againstdisarmament and world peace. People vaguely see disarmament as the cause of War. The world now…
We Can Disarm the World
29 pieces filed under We Can Disarm the World.
2022
Ending the Western-Russian Stand Off for Ever
Russia and the Ukraine. It is sad that we not only do not understand our enemies, but also that we cannot, because we are so self-righteous and indoctrinated. Russia has been wronged badly and…
2021
We Can Disarm the World Exhibition. 1 Not Home for Christmas
Those who go to War promise success. They pretend the War will work. They hype up soldiers, require patriotism, demonize enemies and talk up their weapons. The arms people have been working at this…
We Can Disarm the World Exhibition. 3. WW2 Hiroshima
The Second World War was worst than the first. It was six years. World War One was the War of trenches. World war Two was the War of bombs. Its devastation ate up ten years of world GDP. 60 million…
We Can Disarm the World Exhibition. 7. Mission Accomplished
The Second Iraq War occurred after a long series of errors and failures in the Middle East driven by the aim of making it a big market for western weapons. It had oil wealth, and in the 1960s and…
We Can Disarm the World Exhibition. 2. Tolstoy Writing Resurrection
The Peace Movements throughout the 19th century were strong and critical. They understood that weapons created conflict and were pushed by capitalists wanting profits from wars. The Napoleonic Wars…
This Full Remembrance Day.
This Remembrance Day we will once again be invited to live inside the Battle of Britain and be grateful for the armed forces that defended us against invasion, as though that was the typical form of…
Two World Wars – Same Cause
BURYING THE MYTH OF APPEASEMENT: ARMS CAUSE WARS NOT PREVENT THEM. How industrial militarism got underway – the pioneers. A world dominant political ideology grows like a river flowing. Tributaries…
The New World Order – The Fall of the US.
The United Nations’ Rebuke to the US for its sanctions policy against Venezuela and the wicked consequences of it continues the UN movement from vasseldom to the US to independence from it. The…
Might Is Not Right 4 Lethality
The MOD announces another contract. These are for missiles which will fly from planes to the ground to kill people. Killing people is wrong, but not when you describe it in these terms. “A…
Might Is Not Right 3 – Jesus Turns It Down.
The painting was messed up by a couple of failures which I’ll try to sort one day, but it signals up John 6 15 and the importance of politics throughout the Gospels. It shows the 5000 plus crowd…
Might Is Not Right – Military Bases and Projecting Power.
The UK has a load of military bases and theatres of activity around the world. They include, I think, the following. Afghanistan, Ascension Islands, Bahrain, Belize, Brunei, Canada, Estonia, British…
Your Continuous at Sea Nuclear Deterrent
Oh, ho, ho ,ho, we still are great. For we have nuclear subs. They are continuously at sea while you are all in pubs. Yes, they protect you ‘gainst the foe, in China, North Korea. We are your…
2020
Militarism Is Replacing Democracy Around the World – This Should Concern Everyone.
It is obvious that militarism undermines democracy. States where the ruler looks to the army are different from states where governments are formed by democratic support. Either might is right, or…
A Full Remembrance Day Reflection
Each year we honour the dead, those who were slain in war for us. Often they were young men taken from life. We remember them. We think how many. We recall the horrors of gas, of submarine warfare…
The United Nations’ Treaty Prohibiting Nuclear Weapons Is Backed by the Church of England for the UK
OVER 30 BISHOPS INCLUDING BOTH ARCHBISHOPS HAVE URGED THE UK GOVERNMENT TO COMPLY WITH THIS TREATY TO HELP MOVE TOWARDS A NUCLEAR FREE WORLD. AT PRESENT THE UK GOVERNMENT IS TRYING TO HIDE AWAY FROM…
Ending the Military Science and Technology of Killing
THE AGE OF SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNOLOGICAL WARFARE. Science is seen as benign, but around the world the military and the arms industry does much of the world’s most advanced scientific and technical…
2019
The End of Johnson and Hunt
Oh Nazanin, how could we all have been so stupid. We are so sorry and rage at our UK Governments, especially this one, for this sordid history. A Guardian article today links the wrongful detention…
2018
How World Disarmament Must Happen
This is a request you sign a petition, but more, it shares a strategy and understanding you may want to own. The points are not new, but putting them on the table together points the way ahead. It’s…
The SLOWNUKE App.
Hello, there, I am your friend and a technological whizz kid. I have been researching and making operational an amazing technological development in the field of nuclear weapons. We have developed an…
Think about this year and peace.
On the 11th November 2018 the whole world will be recalling the end of the Great War, the War to end all wars. They will think of war and peace then, and perhaps only then. But they will be aimless…
2017
What Mr Fox says
Liam Fox, the UK Government International Trade Secretary, spoke at the DSEI Arms Fair and is quoted in The Independent as saying the following: “If nations and peoples have an inalienable right to…
The United States kindles modern Islamic Militarism.
However, Carter’s biggest failure occurred in relation to Afghanistan, a blot on an otherwise deeply peace-seeking Presidency. A key figure in his administration was Zbigniew Brzezinski, the National…
2016
This Time We Remember and Think It Through.
This Remembrance Day could be a solemn, but frozen, remembrance of those who died in war, including the First World War, or we could go further and think through why wars happen. Here are two dozen…
The Fear Machine.
Jesus’ teachings on fear may be more important than we recognize. We tend to think of “not being afraid”, a subjective attitude, as the focus of Jesus’ repeated commands. But perhaps, when he says…
Teresa May’s Fictions on the Trident Nuclear Weapons’ System
(written for Christians on the Left) In her first policy debate in the Commons as Prime Minister, Teresa May pushed through the gateway decision on the new Trident Nuclear system. The debate was…
2015
Arms limerick
Said the salesman, “You must buy our arms, Like your neighbours, to face wars’ alarms. For when they attack, You can then strike back, Without any military qualms.
Pursuing Peace honestly in Iraq and Syria
1.Bombing does not add up to a Policy. The Conservative proposal for bombing ISIS is being presented as policy. It is an attempt to damage ISIS and cause it to contract from the area it is fighting…
Twenty Four Arguments Against Renewing Trident
The Ministry of Defence and repeated Governments have been trying to keep the issue of renewing Trident – the UK’s nuclear weapons system – off the political agenda, mainly because the case for it is…