War & Peace

World Links

War&Peace began compiling this list of links in 1990.
It won the "Top 5% of the Web" award and continues to expand far beyond issues of disarmament.

CURRENT PROJECT
THE LAST BOMB - Pathways to Zero

RECENT PROJECTS
THE BOMB IN THE AGE OF OBAMA - CUNY TV HIROSHIMA DAY SPECIAL 2009

EARLIER PROJECTS
The People v. The Bomb - CUNY TV Special: Showdown at the UN 2005 -
One-hour program on Google Video -

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THE VERY BIG PICTURE
Our Place in the Universe - From the Milky Way to a single proton - awesome, majestic
Planet Earth in High Res. - NASA"s sharpest pictures yet
The Long Now - The next ten-thousand  years - Time and responsibility - original,  profound
Nearest Star - A neighborly glance at Alpha Centauri, our twin star only 4 light-years away
The Arecibo telescope signal  Our first and only digital message to the stars
The Atom -  Models and descriptions

PLANETARY PERSPECTIVES


HOME - trailer - Magnificent portrait of the living Earth
Earth at Night - Spectacular - Who left the lights on?
A Year in 90 seconds - The planetary cycle - A journey around the sun with a still camera
Global alarm map - - Staying frightened all the time - click map
Consider the Future - - Huge collection of user-generated information and essays
UN Earth Day at Equinox - - Margaret Mead declaration
Innovation Watch - - Staying ahead on everything
World Watch Institute - Annual checklist on the state of the planet
The Planetary Interest Cambridge University study - Perspectives toward a global polity
United Nations - Flawed -  but last, best, only hope yet in place
UN Conferences and Events- Current listings
Today's UN Webcasts
NGOs and International Organizations - Global listings
Avaaz - World citizens unite online
Amnesty International - Protecting Human Rights worldwide
Change.org - New Global Social Network
Ashoka - Helping people everywhere to help themselves
Institute for Policy Studies - Long-time leading US progressive thinktank
Groundspring - Internet services for non-profits
Global Exchange - Linking People-to-People worldwide
World Government - Background and updates
World Federalism - History and role today
Meet the world's ten richest people - YouTube Video

NUCLEAR ISSUES
International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear weapons - Watch 6-minute Report
Ploughshares - Information and funding on nuclear disarmament
Zero Nukes - How to get there
Doomsday Clock - video history
Bulletin of Atomic Scientists - Present at the creation
Re-thinking Nuclear PolicyCreated by Ward Wilson - Princeton
Global Security Institute Leading International Nuclear Disarmament Center

Global Zero -World leaders and experts unite for abolition
Global Zero -Interactive animated map of nuclear weapons history
Reaching Critical Will - Invaluable monitor of nuclear issues
Peace and Justice Now - Center for community action
Center for Defense Information - Retired military experts to stop war
Acronym Institute - Scholarly and balanced reports from Rebecca Johnson
Proliferation Press - Reports and reviews on disarmament
Nuclear Disarmament - Invaluable links for citizen activists - where to go, what to do.
Nuclear News - World updates
Mayors for Peace 20/20 Vision -  World mayors call for nuclear disarmament by the year 2020
World Peace Message -  Blog center
IALANA - International Lawyers Against Nuclear Arms
Canberra Commission -  International blueprint for getting rid of nuclear weapons
Nuclear Policy Research Institute -  Headed by Helen Caldicott
Disarament and Security Centre -  NZ-based News and Information on N Disarmament
Nuclear Age Peace Foundation - Headed by David Krieger
Abolition 2000 - Founded by Alice Slater

Atomic Mirror - Analysis and comment
Nuclear Disarmament Today - Wikipedia updates
Weapons of Mass Destruction - Blix report on steps to a nuclear, biological, chemical weapons-free world
Weeramantry Dissent - Seminal, magisterial World Court opinion on nuclear weapons
Kissinger, Nunn, Schultz, Perry call for nuclear abolition - Wall St Journal landmark editorial
Disarmament treaties
Senior Australian Political Leaders Call for Nuclear Weapons Convention




CLIMATE CHANGE
Climate of Change - Documentary Trailer


350.ORG -Bill McGibbon's call to the world to get carbon down

Climate Change links
Stern Review - UK Report on Global Warming
What You Can Do - Ben & Jerry's citizen's guide to lick global warming
Stop Global Warming
Grist - Environmental news and commentary
Natural Resources Defense Council - Rich with information and links
How Global Warming works - Simple BBC animation
Global Warming skeptics

500 Skeptics report




TV and RADIO NEWS
BBC News - Best broadcast service -  - Slow on Iraq; but still compass and beacon among mass media

CNN More stuff, less news ever since the sell-out to Time-Warner-AOL
The Real News - Great new citizen-supported Video News service
Russia Today - English language Youtube News Service

National Public Radio - America's non-commercial national service
Russia Today - English language Youtube News Channel

Air America Radio - New Progressive news and commentary service
C-Span - America's most valuable TV network -  live coverage of congress and political affairs
Democracy Now! - Fiercely independent US radio news service
Press TV- Mid-East Perspectives on World News - Satellite TV and web streaming

WORLD NEWS, MAGAZINE AND ONLINE SERVICES
InterPress News - Voice of and for the people
Truth Out - Citizen-based independent media world view
The Guardian -England's most responsible and important newspaper
The Independent - Literate and discerning UK news daily
The New York Times - Forever damaged by Judith Miller, but still occasionally useful
Toronto Star Canadian  paper with a global  perspective
Independent Media Center -Global News Watchdog
Le Monde Diplomatique -France's most influential journal
Times of India - Asian perspectives World News
Information Clearing House - What the mainstream misses - great media links
Hufffington Post - Hip, smart and politically aware

Japan Times - World view news and editorials
Watching America - Unique service translates world press on US
Counterpunch - Tough independent perspectives
New America Foundation - Valuable news, comment and video
The Observer - Weekly  publication of  The Guardian
International Herald Tribune  -  Establishment  world summary
The Nation  -  First and best US progressive weekly
Whole Earth Review - The world's most important intelligent magazine - see back issues
New Scientist - Science; art of the 21st century - leading edge reports
Common Dreams -  Utne reader says "a site to shake the world"  -  updates and  media links
Antiwar.  Invaluable libertarian commentary and reports watchdoging warmongers
Salon - Sophisticated online mix of politics and culture
AlterNet - Leading Alternative news service
One World   UK-based independent  truly global news service
Global Research - Canadian based independent news, analysis   -
MAPlight - Follow the money: Politics and funding
SCOOP  - New Zealand independent - world class world coverage
Want to Know  - Coverups uncovered
Komisar Scoop   - Watchdog on World Corporations and Banks
Brave New Films  - Network of best TV news reports >
Electronic Frontier Foundation  -Protecting freedom in cyberspace
Mother Talkers  - Rants and raves on modern motherhood
Move On - US model and exemplar for the coming online grass roots democracy
Daily Kos - US model for national - and world -blog
Scoop - Independent New Zealand news service - best coverage US vote fraud
Cyborg Democracy - Transhuman futures
Snuffy Smith's Blog - Great world affairs articles and commentary
Declaration of Freedom in Cyberspace - John Perry Barlow, EFF
Paradise Engineering - Pathways to Utopia



ENCYCLOPEDIA
Wikipedia- World's biggest and best - growing and learning all the time
Encyclopedia of Life- E.O. Wilson center


LIBRARIES
British Library- 13-million items




BOOKS
Gutenberg Project - World's greatest writings - huge, uniquely valuable free service


MIT World  -  Distributed Intelligence - rich, deep

Wikileaks  - "..as important a tool as the Freedom of Information act."

SEARCH
Google  -  Best-ever all purpose search engine - a world wonder

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