Relevant videos and publications

Here are some videos and publications used in understanding militarism and developing our CALL and.  For a few of them, short descriptions are  available here.  

• Alternatives do exist! -- Prof. Jeffrey Sachs talks at Cambridge Union, Oct 2024

• Julian Assange briefly explains how the entertainment industry pushes for war [5 min. video]

• Monstrous Anger of the Guns How the global arms trade is ruining the world and what we can do about it [video describing  the book and its content]

• Monstrous anger of the guns -- revealing Q&As

• Arctic Council-- militarization or peace?  [article by Ingeborg Breines, 2025]

• Why public funds should be deposited in publicly-owned banks

• Arms industry as commercial determinant of health  [special series of the British Medical Journal]

• Investing in the Arms Race [2026 report]

• Data about carbon emissions of the Gaza war

• Types of carbon footprint of militarism and war

• Noam Chomsky's prophetic interview [2015]

• Neither prince nor merchant: citizen [article by Marc Nerfin, 1981]

• Civilian casualties in war

• We can’t fight the climate crisis without fighting militarism [video program]

• Impact of colonization and armed conflicts on Indigenous Peoples’ rights: the imperative of peace building [UN document, May 2025; includes a discussion of restorative justice]

• Indigenous peoples' cosmologies of peacemaking and peacekeeping [paper by Hanieh Moghani, 2025]

• The politics of cultural despair [video of a lecture by Chris Hedges]

• Cultures of militarism [Current Anthropology 60, 2019 -- special issue free to download]

• What do we mean by cultures of peace?  [article by Ingeborg Breines, 2025]

• A culture of peace -- Original 1995 UNESCO report 

• Data about global military spending surge

• Data on military emissions, war and health

• Earth's Greatest Enemy [preview of film under production in 2025]

• Why war? A letter from Albert Einstein to Sigmund Freud [1932]

• Daniel Ellsberg on the causes of war [revealing video of one of his last interviews]

• Global Atlas on Environmental Justice

• The EU path to war

• Europe wake-up! -- Prof. Jeffrey Sachs talks at European Parliament, Feb 2025

• Feminist political economy [a short and well-done WILFP video]

• Agroecology, food sovereignty, militarism and the cultures of peace [a blog by Michel Pimbert]

• Fratelli Tutti (Pope Francis' 2020 encyclical letter on fraternity and social friendship)

• Why war? A letter from Sigmund Freud to Albert Einstein [1932]

• Genocide as colonial erasure– Summary of 2024 Report of UN Special Rapporteur on human rights

• From economy of occupation to economy of genocide - 2025 Report of UN Special Rapporteur

• Historian David T. Gibbs on militarism and neoconservatism-- interview no 1 

• Historian David T. Gibbs on militarism and neoconservatism-- interview no 2

• Thinking with Gramsci today [ a 2022 article by Streinzer & Tosic]

• Why Gramsci? [a 2022 article by Kate Crehan]

• Targeting health care workers

• Discussions on the history and political economy of the US power system [entry into a most informative  YouTube series with Aaron Good and Ben Norton]

• Holocaust survivals in conversation [video recorded in 2025]

• Impacts of US war in Vietnam continue to kill today

• Study of the impact of colonization and armed conflicts on Indigenous Peoples' Rights [UN Report by Hanieh Moghani et al., 2025]

• Intersection of AI and Nuclear, Biological and Cyber Threats

• Why the Anglosphere supports Israel? [video of a reply by Noam Chomsky]

• Targeting journalists [article and video]

• Letter by A. Einstein, H. Arendt et al.to The New York Times, published Dec. 4, 1948

• Antony Loewenstein on today's weapons laboratories [CNN interview]

• The popular resistance blog-- Mazin Qumsiyeh 

• Mechanisms of media indoctrination [details about UK media, but broadly applicable]

• Dismantling the military-industrial complex [masterclass video by Ray Acheson]

• Ralph Nader on the possible consequences of a different and more active 1 percent (of population)

• NATO military spending and climate breakdown

• NATO-- the most dangerous organization on Earth [Tricontinental dossier]

• The (free) Newsletter of Caitlin Johnstone breaking down the paradoxes of media, politics, academia...

• Conversations on Non-violence (ahimsa) with Rajni Bakshi

• Database of non-violence tactics 

• How Nuclear War Happens

• Reducing the risks of nuclear war

• Bernie's belated description of the oligarchy in power [video, Dec 2024]

• A UN-Protectorate in Palestine [proposal by Ingeborg Breines, 2025]

• A New Agenda for Peace – UN Secretary General, July 2023

• Waging Peace (book preview)

• "How societies within peace systems avoid war" [very accessible social research paper]

• Ten principles for perpetual peace

• Tribute to the journalism and films of John Pilger [include links to wonderful films!]

• Earth beyond six of nine planetary boundaries

• Pope Francis on rearmament and war [short impromptu with the press]

• Revealing cartoon on pro-war propaganda (the mechanisms of manufacturing consent) 

• On the concept of positive peace [article by Johan Galtung, 1969]

• The Pugwash Einstein-Russell Manifesto

• Quantum Scientists for Disarmament -- a Manifesto [Jan 2026] 

• Role of traditional elders in peace-building [example] 

• Common Security 2022 (40 years after the Olof Palme Commission's Common Security Report)

• Seville Statement on Violence 1989 (full brochure)

• The Seville Statement on Violence (summary text)

• Trauma as a weapon of war

• Smoke Screen: how states are using the war in Ukraine to drive a new arms race

• 1999 UN Declaration and Program of Action for a Culture of Peace

• UN Secretary General Disarmament Agenda

• UN Secretary General new Agenda for Peace 

• UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons

• Testimony at the UN Security Council Meeting [by Jeffrey Sachs] 

• The war you do not see – a great film by John Pilger

• The Greatest Evil is War– by Chris Hedges [interview, the book is highly recommended]

• War is a Racket (full text of a short book by retired Major General S. D. Butler)

• War made invisible (book description)

• War, peace and human nature

• Titans of Capital: How Concentrated Wealth Threatens Humanity 

• Weapons experimentation as part of war

• A well-being approach to peace building

• Women International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF)-- 2015 Manifesto