WORLD ACTIVIST NEWS
Wikileaks cables online with full text search
Hacking scandal: SHOCK! HORROR! RUPERT DOWNFALL, LIVE!
Catholic abuse victim activists seek Int. Criminal Court trial of pope.
Greenham Common activists celebrate 30th aniversary
Murdoch's NY Post opposes Law of the Sea
World Citizen activists open new 9/11 investigation
Chinese human rights activists released from prison
Law of the Sea a big issue in race to Spratly oil
Vancouver Declaration to outlaw nuclear weapons
Activist reports coverup of Fukushima nuclear construction flaws
MORE NEWS
Global Clock - everything everywhere
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 Nuclear Zero
RECENT PROJECTS
VIDEO
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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GLOBAL LINKS
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
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
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 - Pay site (expensive)
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
DOCUMENTARY Assage and Wikileaks - Just released...MUST SEE>
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
GLOBA - The coming Global State
NUCLEAR ISSUES
FILMS...DOCUMENTARIES...VIDEOS...
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 Policy Created 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
Heat Online - Great source of background and updates
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
500 Skeptics report - BUT! see next listing
Debunking skeptics: Monkton myths - Invaluable site
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
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 INFORMATION SERVICES
NEW! Hacking scandal: SHOCK! HORROR! WATCH RUPERT'S DOWNFALL, LIVE!
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. New Editor Jill Abramson last best hope
Toronto
Star Canadian paper with a global perspective
Independent Media Center
-Global News Watchdog
Le Monde Diplomatique
-France's most influential journal
YES Magazine - Upbeat advice to activists
Open Topic
- Web Savy new news and video service
InterPress News
- Voice of and for the people
Truth Out
- Citizen-based independent media world view
Want to Know?
- Coverups exposed - worse than you feared
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
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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
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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 >
Activists Petition to Defend Wikileaks
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
Snuffy Smith's Blog - Great world affairs articles and commentary
Humanitarian Texts Blog - Good thinking
Declaration of Freedom in Cyberspace - John Perry Barlow, EFF
THE FAR FUTURE
Cyborg Democracy - Transhuman futures The
Singularity - coming, ready or not
The Long
Now - The next ten-thousand
years - Time and responsibility - original,
profound
Paradise Engineering - Pathways to Utopia
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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
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BOOKS
Gutenberg
Project - World's greatest writings - huge, uniquely
valuable free service
SPECIAL WEB SERVICES
Wikileaks
- "..as important a tool as the Freedom of Information act."
Wikileaks - Mirror sites
MIT World
- Distributed Intelligence - rich, deep
NEW GLOBAL GOVERNANCE INTERACTIVE WEBSITE - Council Foreign Relations
SEARCH
Google
- Best-ever all purpose search engine - a world wonder
SEARCH
Google Transparency Report - an exemplar - invaluable
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