Ban the bombs…all of them.

Nuclear weapons:  The United States is the only nation in the world that has dropped atomic weapons onto a civilian population. Right now it has a stockpile of about 5,000 nuclear weapons, many of which can be launched within 15 minutes.

Cluster…

August 6 is the second anniversary of EngagingPeace.com and the 67th anniversary of the destruction of Hiroshima and much of its population by an atomic bomb.

Peace Abbey’s Gandhi statue at Occupy Boston. Photo by GorillaWarfare, used under CC CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication

Today’s…

Despite the warning signs, villagers in the territory outside of Karabakh under the control of

Armenian forces still continue to risk life and limb. / Photo by Onnik Krikorian

Today marks International Mine Awareness…

World

• The New Economics Foundation found that the earth is using up resources faster than ever. The study monitors nature’s capital and concluded that this year the earth was using up its own natural
  
  resources to support itself a full month earlier than in the previous
  
  year.
• August 19th was World Humanitarian Day. The…