Relevant videos and publications

We gather here a list,  by no means exhaustive, of videos and publications that were useful in the development of our CALL and offer entry points for critical analysis and discussion of issues of militarism and how to overcome it.  For a few of them, a short description of content is available here.  

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

• Arctic Council-- militarization or peace? -- article by Ingeborg Breines 15.01.2025

• AI Convergence

• Noam Chomsky's prophetic interview (2015)

• Neither prince nor merchant: citizen, 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 to be released on May 2025; includes a discussion of restorative justice]

• 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? –Ingeborg Breines -- article 28.03.25

• A culture of peace -- Original 1995 UNESCO report 

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

• Data about carbon emissions of the Gaza war

• Data about global military spending surge

• Data on military emissions, war and health

• Global Atlas on Environmental Justice

• Earth's Greatest Enemy [film under production, watch the preview]

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

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

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

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

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

• 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)

• Impacts of US war in Vietnam continue to kill today

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

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

• A. 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]

• Monstrous Anger of the Guns How the global arms trade is ruining the world and what we can do about it

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

• NATO military spending and climate breakdown

• The Newsletter of Caitlin Johnstone (freely sent to mailboxes)

• How Nuclear War Happens

• Reducing the risks of nuclear war

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

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

• Waging 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) 

• The Pugwash Einstein-Russell Manifesto

• 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)

• Targeting journalists

• Targeting health care workers

• Ten principles for perpetual peace

• Types of carbon footprint of militarism and war

• 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

• War, peace and human nature

• Titans of Capital: How Concentrated Wealth Threatens Humanity 

• Weapons experimentation as part of war