Most peoplehate war, yet war has always been a part of human life. And there always has been the dream of good people to end all war. World Beyond War (WBW) is the new campaign to end all war. WBW group stresses that nations must disarm, stop selling arms, and negotiate agreements. The campaign calls for “defeating the propaganda of war promoters and countering the economic interests of war promoters with alternative economic possibilities.”Changing the governments in any considerable way would compel a strong change in the attitude of most constituents. How do wars start, what reasons?The first and most important step of the group is to recognize what is happening in order to understand how to eliminate war.To communicate the facts about war and discard the myths is one key objective.

According to WBW, differences in religion are emphasized by war promoters as a means of dividing the people, like the Arab-Israeli conflict. But war is not ever about religion, nor about vengeance, as the Indian-Mexican fighting's. It's fundamentally about the land and its resources. Sun Tzu said in The Art of War, “All warfare is based on deception.” Emotions are what drive people to do something. Wars are prolonged through manipulative propaganda, like the Nazis, Vietnam War and the Gulf war. Accordingly the 9/11 events and the U.S. government responses followed the pattern of a war-initiating deception based on an excuse of lies. The World Beyond War campaign stressed that nations can do end all war if citizens and governments are all willing to recognize and overcome the ego-based deceptions behind war.

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The USA has continued its policy of tough action against ships that evade pollution regulations with USD1.2million fine for a ship that used a "magic pipe" to bypass environmental requirements. Assistant Attorney general Robert G Dreher said, "We hope this sends a strong message to the shipping industry that committing environmental crimes at sea will not be tolerated.”