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US Rep. Jim McGovern (D-MA), MA State Senator Paul Mark, Outside the visitor entrance to the UN in New York, E46th St and 1st Avenue

Rep McGovern attend the meeting of U.N. #TPNW2MSP Nov. 27

For the first time since the Nuclear Ban Treaty was agreed by 122 countries at the United Nations in 2017, the US Congress is represented at a treaty meeting. The Second Meeting of State Parties to the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear…

Second meeting of TPNW States Parties opens in New York

The first day of the second meeting of States Parties to the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons opened on Monday 27 November at 10 a.m. and lasted all day at the United Nations headquarters in New York. The…

New York: ICAN activists' meeting

We publish the diary of events around the International Conference of States Parties to the Treaty on the Prohibition…

Global campaign for Amazon workers' rights. Initiatives exist also in the United States

Globalization has also brought about the regular consumerist Black Friday, which fall on the day following the all-American holiday…

A young woman protests near the entrance to the Plaza Grande, blocked by the national police. (Photography by Walker Vizcarra)

25N, International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women

This November 25, International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, hundreds of women marched in Quito denouncing…

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Riyad Mansour Palestinian UN rep addresses the 2MSP of TPNW.

The Permanent Observer, currently Riyad Mansour, is charged with representing the State of Palestine to the United Nations.Palestine has signed and ratified the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW). It was among the original 50 states parties to…

International

A statement by the Canada-Wide Peace and Justice Network - Dubai - COP28

End wars and end fossil fuels: Demilitarize, Decarbonize, Decolonize We are in a climate emergency exacerbated by global conflict. This past summer, out-of- control forest fires raged across Canada and caused mass displacement and destruction. Canadian communities are facing more…

Ecology and Environment

Sabotaging EU Pesticide Reduction Law (SUR)

Pesticide industry lobby’s reckless assault on biodiversity and health It is make-or-break time for several urgent key topics under the EU’s Green Deal and its Farm to Fork Strategy. In June this year for example, the Nature Restoration Law became…

Peace and Disarmament

Genocide in Gaza, Activists Shut Down Manhattan Bridge. Demonstrators Disrupt Macy’s Parade Over Protest-Filled Weekend

In New York, over 1,000 peaceful protesters held a sit-in protest Sunday at the entrance to the Manhattan Bridge, halting traffic to downtown Brooklyn. Protesters, led by Jewish Voice for Peace, unfurled banners reading “Let Gaza Live” and “The Whole…

Ecology and Environment

Amazon’s Mightiest Apex Predator, The Jaguar

by: Assaf Levy, BioDB In the past, jaguars were revered as deities, but currently, their population is being drastically reduced throughout their habitat. Explore the deep, dense jungles where a stunning and mighty creature resides—the incredible jaguar. This majestic big…

International issues

Nov 29: International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People

The United Nations’ International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People stands as a poignant reminder of the enduring quest for peace, justice, and recognition of the Palestinian cause. Observed annually on November 29th, this day serves as a platform…

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Geert Wilders, head of the PVV (Freedom Party) (left) with other politicians at the final television debate before the 2006 Dutch general election

Europe worries about the rise of “populism”, but real specter haunting EU is “maidanization”

International issues

Pressenza New York

Deal with Hamas reveals Israel’s difficulties

Ecology and Environment

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Deforestation at Novo Progresso, Pará State, in the Brazilian Amazon. Wikimedia Commons

High-ranking Climate Scientists Rebel against the IPPC

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Claude AnShin Thomas: "The process is not to attempt to change the world but to realize that as I change then the world changes"

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Anna Polo

Ella Keidar, junge israelische Kriegsdienstverweigerin aus Gewissensgründen: "Trotz dieser schrecklichen Situation gibt es noch Hoffnung"

Ella Keidar, young Israeli conscientious objector: “Despite this horrible situation there is still hope”

Human Rights

Waging Nonviolence

‘Only democracy can solve this problem’ — a conversation with Iranian Nobel laureate Shirin Ebadi

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Attack on Pressenza, Mazzeo: Are we on proscription lists?

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We do what we dream

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“Step Back from the Brink”: Ex-Israeli Peace Negotiator Daniel Levy Decries Israel’s Actions in Gaza

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Unite now to stop #GazaGenocide and start dismantling Israeli apartheid!

Let’s make November 29th a global day of action to stop #GazaGenocid! Millions of you have taken to the streets for the largest protests the world has seen in the last 20 years! We are grateful to each one of…

Health

CHRISTMAS ALERT: Kiddie Bouncy and Squeaky Plastic Toys Sold in Local Markets Contain Toxic Chemicals

With Christmas fast approaching and shoppers gearing up for their gift-giving, safe toy advocate BAN Toxics issued a warning to the public concerning the sale of bouncy (also known as inflatable hoppers) and squeaky plastic toys that might contain toxic…

Culture and Media

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"her": The Divine Feminine, Artfully Brought to Life, in the First Solo Exhibit of Filipina Artist, Dawn Almario

A muti-awarded Filipina artist living and working in Dubai returns to her artistic roots. She returns to her true calling and passion by unveiling her first solo exhibit here, in her native country. Entitled “her”, it opened on November 17…

Migrants

Strafanzeige von 12 NGOs für die Untersuchung der Zerstörung des Rettungsschiffs Iuventa

12 NGOs file a criminal complaint to demand an investigation for the destruction of the rescue ship Iuventa

The civil fleet joins the Iuventa-crew in filing a criminal complaint to hold accountable those responsible for the destruction of the Iuventa rescue ship under Italian custody. The 4 Iuventa-crew members, on trial in Trapani for allegedly “facilitating unauthorised immigration”,…

Ecology and Environment

A Clean Gulf Associates 95-foot response vessel skims crude oil approximately 4 miles southeast off South Pass, Louisiana, on Nov. 17, 2023. U.S. Coast Guard.

U.S. Coast Guard Searches for Source of 1 Million Gallon Oil Spill in Gulf of Mexico

The U.S. Coast Guard is searching off the Louisiana coast for the source of a leak in a 67-mile-long pipeline that has spilled over 1 million gallons of crude oil into the Gulf of Mexico. By Paige Bennett When the…

Politics

The Violence Problem as Seen from Charlottesville

Charlottesville, over six years ago, was in the news around the world because a bunch of Nazis came here. Some of them were from here, a place with more than its share of homegrown problems. But the Nazi problem, the widespread…

Politics

South African Parliament votes to close the Israeli embassy and suspend diplomatic relations. 248-91

The South African Parliament voted on a motion to close the Israeli Embassy in the country. The motion was PASSED with 248 votes for and 91 against. “Free Palestine in Parliament” slogans were chanted. 🇿🇦🇵🇸 South Africa’s Parliament voted to…

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November 28, 2023 9 AM - Coaltion of U.S. groups hold rally & march from UN to US and Russia Mission

Manhattan Project for a Nuclear-Free World, Pax Christi NYS, Peace Action Fund of New York State, Veterans for Peace-Chapter 34 (NYC), Nukewatch, NYC War Resisters League, and other U.S. organizations present: Survivors of Atomic Bombings of Japan, an Indigenous Elder,…

Ecology and Environment

Envi Groups Dismayed over Hijack of Plastics Treaty Negotiations by Petrochem and Plastics Interests

As the third negotiations (INC3) for a global plastics treaty closed earlier this week, civil society organizations from different countries were disappointed over the seeming failure to move closer to a strong and binding global plastic agreement to end plastic…

Culture and Media

Genuine information on major international issues: Ukraine and Palestine

We often hear that official media provide us with objective information, while independent social media are full of all types of materials, but much of it is disinformation, conspiracy theories and hate speech. This is sometimes true, but there’s another…

Politics

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Bangladesh election not likely in early January

The much-awaited national election to the 12th Parliament of Bangladesh is likely to be rescheduled, and not postponed. By Saleem Samad The governing party Awami League’s top leader Obaidul Quader and Minister for Roads and Bridges said on Wednesday that…

Peace and Disarmament

Emergency Forum: No More War Crimes! Economic Development, Not Depopulation!

Join Humanity for Peace November 26 at 11am EST/ 8am PST/ 5pm CET for an Emergency Forum and Exclusive showing of the Documentary 8:15 Hiroshima: From Father to Daughter Register for the Zoom link Speakers Helga Zepp-LaRouche, Founder and Chairwoman, Schiller institute…

International issues

Israel & Palestine: Possible Futures — a Discussion with Noam Chomsky

Professor Noam Chomsky discuss in May 23, 2023, Israel-Palestine conflict which he describes as “the main issue of my life” with academics Dylan Rodriguez, Michael Alexander and Mohamad Ali. With incomparable precision and detail professor Chomsky re-defines concepts such as…

Politics

Der Internationale Gerichtshof zu den US-Sanktionen gegen die Republik Kuba

The International Tribunal on the US sanctions against the Republic of Cuba

The extensive political and economic sanctions imposed on the Republic of Cuba since 1960 up to date violate international law. These include, above all, Articles 2(4) and 2(7) of the UN Charter on the protection of sovereignty, self-determination and the…

Education

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The New Grand Tour

Six million years of human evidence offers a powerful universal education to address humanity’s most significant challenges and opportunities. By Jan Ritch-Frel All of humanity can now take the Grand Tour: a travel circuit of global sites that help us…

Peace and Disarmament

Photo from left: Museum docent Kevin Carroll; Camillo 'Mac' Bica, Veterans For Peace; Myrna Gordon, NCPG; Rich Morgan, SCPG & Conscience Bay Friends; Bob Keeler, PCLI; and Susan Perretti, NCPG. Not pictured: Anne and Paul Cimino, Brian O'Haire, Chuck Perretti.

Long Island Peace Activists Deliver Message to Museum of American Armor: War is NOT 'Cool'

A peace delegation with representatives from North Country Peace Group, Pax Christi LI, Veterans For Peace LI, South Country Peace Group and Conscience Bay Friends Meeting visited the Museum of American Armor in Old Bethpage, NY Sunday, November 19th to…

International issues

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres (L, Front) addresses a Security Council open debate on promoting sustainable peace through common development at the UN headquarters in New York, on Nov. 20, 2023. UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Monday emphasized the significance of development and expressed gratitude to China for organizing a debate on this vital issue at the Security Council.

China calls for promoting peace through common development

China’s ambassador to the UN has called for promoting sustainable peace through common development at an open debate at the UN Security Council on Monday. To achieve basic, inclusive and sustainable development is the foundation for ensuring long-term peace and…

Human Rights

Voices from Gaza: narratives on the genocide of the Palestinian people

A meeting with the CISS (Cooperazione Internazionale Sud Sud – South South International Cooperation) took place in Palermo on 14 November at the Casa della Cooperazione; present, fortunately returning from Gaza, were Jacopo Intini and Amal Khayal, head of the…

International issues

Genocide: There's a Law to Stop It

Several countries’ governments have accused the Israeli government of genocide and asked the International Criminal Court to prosecute Israeli officials, but that court answers to the U.S. government and has refused for years to prosecute crimes by Israel or anyone…

Health

EcoWaste Coalition continues to push for the strict enforcement of the lead paint ban.

EcoWaste Coalition Warns against Leaded Paints with “No Pb” Symbol

21 November 2023, Quezon City. Paints containing lead, a chemical element with the symbol Pb, must not carry the “No Pb” symbol as this will constitute a violation of the right of consumers to be given accurate and truthful product…

Culture and Media

First hybrid meeting , in Athens, of the Pressenza agency after the pandemic.

International hybrid meeting of Pressenza editorial offices in Athens

On November 18 and 19, [2023], an international meeting of Pressenza news agency editorial representatives from the different regions of our planet took place in Athens. It was a mixed meeting, attended by many representatives from Asia, Europe, North and…

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Former NATO’s Supreme Commander sees no future for Ukraine but land-for-peace deal

James Stavridis, former NATO Supreme Allied Commander Europe, writing for Bloomberg, argues that Washington should learn from “the lessons of South Korea” and negotiate a “land for peace conclusion to combat” in Ukraine. Commenting on his recent visit to Seoul in…

Ecology and Environment

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‘Climate Change Is Here’: Every Part of the U.S. Will Suffer Climate-Related Disasters, Report Finds

Earlier this week, the U.S. Global Change Research Program released the United States’ Fifth National Climate Assessment, an overview of the effects climate change is having on the country. By: Cristen Hemingway Jaynes The main message of the assessment is clear: Every part…

Politics

The "libertarian" Javier Milei will be Argentina's next President

Argentina embraced the far right. Javier Milei, 53, won the second round of Argentina’s elections with 56% of the vote against the current economy minister Sergio Massa, who won 44% of the vote. Massa, the economy minister in a country…

Ecology and Environment

Photo at the INC 3 Post Nov 19,2023. Source: https://www.no-burn.org/.

Plastics Treaty Negotiations Held Hostage by Small Handful of Oil-Producing Countries

Civil Society Raises Alarm about Dysfunction in the Treaty Process Nairobi, Kenya– In the final hours closing a week of negotiations (INC-3- Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee ) for a global plastics treaty, a small group of mostly oil and plastic-producing…

Ecology and Environment

The amazing Great Barrier Reef at the Whitsunday Islands, Australia seen from a helicopter ride. Can people survive without life-sourcing ecosystems, like rainforests, wetlands, the Great Barrier Reef? Photo source: Wikimedia Commons.

Showdown at COP28

“$200 trillion is needed to stop global warming” (Bloomberg New Energy Finance) Buckle up, fireworks will be going off in a couple of weeks in the pristine complex known as Dubai. World leaders, climate scientists, environmentalists, and fossil fuel producers…

Culture and Media

They speak of freedom with dirty hands

“The jailers of humanity will not catch me twice with the same net,” said Charly García. At last, it happened. The faithful guardian of planetary democracy and the civil liberties of the world’s peoples, the US State Department, officially accused…

Ecology and Environment

The Marvelous World of Anteaters, Nature's Coolest Bug Busters

by: Assaf Levy, BioDB Did you know there’s a real-life superhero in the animal kingdom? Meet the anteater – not your average backyard creature! These fuzzy, long-snouted wonders are the ultimate bug busters, armed with a secret weapon that’s the…

Ecology and Environment

China's South-to-North Water Diversion Project (SNWDP).

China's water diversion project benefits 68 million people in first decade

The first phase of the eastern route of China’s South-to-North Water Diversion Project has benefited more than 68 million people in the eastern province Shandong in its decade-long operation, said the China South-to-North Water Diversion Co., Ltd. on Wednesday. The…

International issues

Belgium Overcomes EU Struggles to Send Strong Message on Gaza

EU States Do Not Need Consensus to Support Sanctions, Accountability By Claudio Francavilla Despite the horrific and mounting human costs of the grave violations of international humanitarian law in Israel and Palestine, the 27 EU member states have been unable…

Human Rights

CODEPINK Launches International Campaign Urging ICC Investigation into Israel’s Alleged War Crimes in Gaza

In the wake of alarming statements by Israeli officials, including Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, which have been perceived as incitement to genocide in Palestine, CODEPINK and its international partners are spearheading a global letter-writing initiative calling for an investigation by…

Ecology and Environment

A photo of plastic pollution from the lawsuit filed by New York State.

New York Sues PepsiCo Over Plastics Pollution in Buffalo River

New York State Attorney General Letitia James sued PepsiCo on Wednesday, claiming the corporation had endangered the environment and misled the public regarding its plans to get rid of single-use plastic packaging. By Cristen Hemingway Jaynes The attorney general’s office found that the food…

Health

Warning Out on Newly-Discovered Aerosol Paints with Extremely High Lead Content

Two more aerosol paints sold online were found to contain extremely high concentrations of lead, a cumulative toxicant that is forbidden in the production of paints. The toxics watchdog group EcoWaste Coalition revealed that the lead content of the two…

Health

Advocate Mothers Urge Government to Prohibit Banned Toxic Chemicals used in Plastic Toys, Amid New Evidence

“We unknowingly expose our children to plastic toys contaminated with toxic chemicals, which have been prohibited worldwide since 2017. Soft plastic toys like inflatable hopping horses, squeaky toy animals, shrilling chickens, rubber duckies, and dolls containing harmful chemicals called short-chain…

Asia

Resource Person Dr. Jimmy Catanes, CHED Education Supervisor II (3rd line, 6th fr. L), Madam Margarita Cecilda B. Rillera, BCU President and Chair of the Board of Trustees (s/c), are joined for a photo-op by the Board of Trustees members, the Management Team, Research Coordinators, Dr. Bernadette Pal-ec, CHED-CAR UNIFAST Focal Person and CHED Staff Mr. Steven Jan Belgica. Photo credit: Michael Rodriguez.

BCU Undergoes Internationalization Orientation and Capability Building on Research Digital ToolKits

by Marilou Dela Peña & Genevieve Balance Kupang Remaining relevant and competitive in the rapidly evolving educational landscape is a top priority. Universities actively participate in diverse rating assessments to gain a comprehensive understanding of their strengths and areas for…

Culture and Media

Provocations by the US State Department can chill press freedom in Latin America

The headline is provocative: “The Kremlin’s Efforts to Covertly Spread Disinformation in Latin America.” This was a statement on the US State Department website, posted on November 7, 2023. The United States government accused two companies—Social Design Agency and Structura National Technologies—of…

Human Rights

Open Letter from a Ukrainian Facing Prison for Speaking for Peace

Greetings from Kyiv. Yesterday my city was disturbed again by air raid sirens, so I ran from Vernadsky scientific library to hide in the closest shelter, a subway station. Ruthless Russian aggression against Ukraine continues, as well as the Ukrainian…

Ecology and Environment

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Philippine Island Tackles the Plastic Crisis Head-On, Sets Example for the Global Plastics Treaty Negotiations

The Island Province of Siquijor Serves as a Success Story in the Global Fight against Plastic Pollution 14 November 2023 – Nairobi, Kenya – As the third intergovernmental negotiations (INC-3) on plastic pollution go underway in Nairobi, Kenya, delegates and…

Peace and Disarmament

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War Is Not a Game - Vigil 11/19 in Old Bethpage

Rally along Veterans For Peace, Long Island Chapter, on Sunday, November 19th, from 1:00pm-2:30pm, to stand in front of the Museum of American Armor in Old Bethpage to show our outrage over supporting and sponsoring an event there that glorifies war.…

Peace and Disarmament

There Is No Right Side in War

Many of us have called wars like those on Iraq and Afghanistan by the name “wars” or sometimes the name “occupation,” but the current war on Gaza by the name “genocide.” They’ve all been extremely one-sided slaughters of mostly civilians…

Peace and Disarmament

Nonviolent Activists Shutdown General Dynamics, Nuclear Submarine Facility in New London, CT

New London resident Jackie Allen-Doucot was among nine peace activists arrested and charged with criminal trespass this morning during a blockade of entrances to the Engineering Complex of General Dynamics/Electric Boat where nuclear submarines are designed. Holding long banners spanning…

International issues

Veterans for Peace Joins International Delegation Attempt to Reach Rafah Border Crossing With Gaza

VFP member Danny O’Brien, VFP Board member Gerry Condon, and VFP Advisory Board member, journalist Chris Hedges, are among an international delegation of writers, lawyers, journalists, activists, students, and organizers who arrived in Cairo, Egypt this week with the goal…

International issues

Activating the Genocide Convention

There are 149 states party to the Genocide Convention. Every one of them has the right to call out the genocide in progress in Gaza and report it to the United Nations. In the event that another state party disputes the claim of…

International issues

El Ciudadano and Pressenza Condemn the Accusation that They Are Spreading Kremlin Disinformation.

On 7 November 2023, the US State Department released a statement that had a provocative title, ‘The Kremlin’s Efforts to Covertly Spread Disinformation in Latin America’. The note argued that the ‘Russian government is currently financing an on-going, well-funded disinformation…

Health

EcoWaste Coalition Exposes Trade of Mercury-Laden Cosmetics in QC in Violation of City Ordinance No. 2767-2018

12 November 2023, Quezon City. The sale of skin-lightening cosmetics contaminated with mercury in Quezon City has not stopped despite the promulgation five years ago of a historic ordinance banning such poisonous cosmetics. Based on the market monitoring conducted by…

Education

Captured in this photo: Participants getting ready to use their mobile devices during the photowalk. (Riggie Clark Jalmanzar/Kurit-Lagting)

Abuyog National High School's 'Litratista sa Eskwela' Mobile Photowalk sparks Creative Minds in Sorsogon City

Sorsogon City, Philippines—Abuyog National High School proudly celebrates the success of its inaugural event, the 1st Mobile Photowalk held on November 10, 2023. Titled ‘Litratista sa Eskwela’ (School Photographer), this groundbreaking initiative aimed to inspire creativity and critical thinking, uniting…

Peace and Disarmament

The World Needs an Armistice Day

Remarks on November 11, 2023, at Veterans For Peace event in Iowa City, Iowa Ukraine needs an armistice. Palestine needs an armistice. Nagorno-Karabakh needs an armistice. Syria, Sudan, Nigeria, and so many countries need an armistice. The U.S. public…

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Schematic showing both terrestrial and geological sequestration of carbon dioxide emissions from a biomass or fossil fuel power station. Rendering by LeJean Hardin and Jamie Payne. Source: http://www.ornl.gov/info/ornlreview/v33_2_00/research.htm . Wikimedia Commons.

Fixing the Climate Crisis, Part 2

How to Fix the Climate Crisis is a multifaceted affair. A National Geographic November 2023 article, The Race to Save the Planet, Can Technology Help Fix the Climate Crisis? that this two-part series is based focuses on the nexus of…

International

Protect Children’s Health and Safety from Toxic Firecrackers, says BAN Toxics

Toxic watchdog group BAN Toxics urges the public to say “NO to Firecrackers” to protect and prevent toxic injuries among children over the selling of firecrackers in the market as part of their “Iwas Paputok, Iwas Disgrasya, Iwas Polusyon” campaign.…

Health

EcoWaste Coalition Deplores Online Sale of Banned Paints with Toxic Lead Content

Watchdog Group Discovers Three More Aerosol Paints Sold Online with Lead up to 94,900 ppm 10 November 2023, Quezon City. The toxics watchdog group EcoWaste Coalition has deplored the continuing use of online shopping platforms as a channel to…

Peace and Disarmament

Denunciation to the International Criminal Court for genocide and other crimes (art. 15.1)

The unacceptable must be fought by all means On 9 November [2023] at 11 am in The Hague, a denunciation for genocide and other crimes (art.15.1) concerning Palestine in particular will be presented to the International Criminal Court. The underlying…

Human Rights

John Pilger: We are Spartacus

Spartacus was a 1960 Hollywood film based on a book written secretly by the blacklisted novelist Howard Fast, and adapted by the screenplay writer Dalton Trumbo, one of the ‘Hollywood 10’ who were banned for their ‘un-American’ politics. It is…

Culture and Media

Pressenza rejects State Department accusation of being part of a disinformation campaign promoted by Russia

On November 7, the Reuters news agency released a communiqué from the US State Department under the title “The Kremlin’s Efforts to Covertly Spread Disinformation in Latin America”. In the text released, it is intended to involve the international news…

Human Rights

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16 US lawmakers Unite for Julian

15 US congress members and one senator writing to Joe Biden and lobbying him to drop extradition attempts against Julian. In America’s fragmented political landscape, this letter brings together everyone from republican and fierce Trump supporter Marjorie Taylor Greene, libertarian…

Politics

The Monroe Doctrine and the Roots of U.S. Hegemony

Remarks at Cambridge, Mass., November 6, 2023 If we think of the U.S. arming of genocidal colonial violence in Israel as an anachronistic throwback, we’re not wrong, but there’s something we’re missing. If we want to understand why a bill…

Human Rights

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Israel, illegal arrests and protests

This morning the leading members of the “High Follow-Up Committee for Arab Citizens of Israel” (an extra-parliamentary umbrella organization that represents Arab citizens in Israel at national level) were illegally arrested. Since the beginning of the war in Gaza, Israel’s…

International issues

After the vote in the United Nations: 187 states together with Cuba voted to end the blockade. The governments of the USA and its ally Israel continue to stand for economic warfare and the violation of the human rights of 11 million Cubans.

UN debate on Cuba: Overwhelming majority against US economic war

Voted out: 187 of the 193 member states of the United Nations are calling for an end to the US blockade against Cuba. The USA and its ally Israel are completely isolated. With an overwhelming majority of 187 votes in…

Ecology and Environment

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U.S. Solar Electricity Generation to Exceed Hydroelectricity in 2024, EIA Predicts

The U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) is forecasting that in 2024, electricity from solar energy will exceed the amount of energy coming from hydropower sources by about 14%. The prediction has been published in EIA’s Short-Term Energy Outlook report. EIA…

Opinions

Why So Many Jews Denounce Israel’s War on Gaza

By Yakov M. Rabkin A profound division exists between Zionist advocates of Israel on the one hand, and both secular and religious Jews, on the other, who reject Zionism and thus the very idea of a separate state for the…

Nonviolence

Eine gemeinsame jüdisch-arabische Erklärung für den Frieden

A joint Jewish-Arab declaration for peace

We – movements, organizations and activists, Jews and Arabs – write these words out of heavy mourning for the thousands of people killed in recent weeks, and out of terrible anxiety for the safety of the abducted and those who…

Human Rights

[1] Palestinian men in the town of Ramle seen behind a barbed-wire fence, before being expelled by Israeli forces (July 1948). Credits: Beno Rothenberg. ____ [2] A demonstration in Dar es Salam, Tanzania, against Israel's military actions in Gaza in 2008-2009. Credits: Muhammad Mahdi Karim. ____ [3] Ruins in the town of Beit Hanoun, in the north of the Gaza Strip, after the bombardments of August 2014. Credits: Muhammad Sabah. ____ [4] Gaza. Residential buildings destroyed during the first week of intensive bombardment by the Israeli air force in October 2023. Credits: Al Araby.

Israel in Gaza: a genocidal enterprise?

The twentieth century has been marked by several genocidal enterprises. In 1899-1902, the United States was closely associated with the genocide of 3 million people in the Philippines[1]. In 1907, King Leopold of Belgium led an army that killed over…

Human Rights

Towards the end of human dignity

In response to the humanitarian appeal of the University of Birzeit in Palestine , the Edward Said Free Chair of Palestinian Studies of the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters of the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina, pronounces: it is necessary to break the explanatory…

Peace and Disarmament

San Benigno gate. Genoa dock workers prepare to block weapons in transit to Israel

As has been happening for some years, dock workers in Italy manage to combine the fight for rights against all discrimination and exploitation, with concrete initiatives alongside oppressed peoples. They have built a network between all the dock workers and…

Peace and Disarmament

Sit-in für Waffenstillstand in Gaza an der Freiheitsstatue

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