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The Dark Side of Gratitude: When Thankfulness Becomes a Tool of Control

Society tells us to “count our blessings,” but could gratitude be doing more harm than good? Martina Moneke reveals how forced thankfulness can distort perception, silence emotions, and perpetuate injustice. We live in a world that constantly tells us to…

War on Venezuela Is A Lie

In 2010, I wrote a book called War Is A Lie, with an updated edition in 2016. If I’m lucky and find time — and maybe if they ease up on the wars for a little while — I’ll get…

China desert turns green via 25 years of youth-led efforts

An aerial drone photo taken on July 11, 2024 shows a view of an ecological garden on border of the Maowusu desert in Yinchuan, northwest China’s Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region. (Xinhua/Wang Peng) Amid the chilling wind of an early winter…

Anjali Mehta: Conquering the 7 Summits & Gender-Based Violence. Pt 2

Anjali Mehta is a 31 year-old mountain climber challenging the “seven summits” to support international agencies fighting gender-based violence and to bring attention to the rights of transgender girl athletes. In the first part of this two-part BCR program, we…

Japan Might Challenge China Sooner Than Expected

The emerging result is a “return to history” in the sense of former regional leaders restoring their lost spheres of influence with US support and all that entails for worsening tensions with the Sino-Russo Entente. It was recently assessed that…

The Role of Digital Media in Shaping Nepal’s GenZ Movement

For what may be the first time in world history, a government collapsed in just 30–32 hours because of a youth-led movement. In a country like Nepal, still in the early phase of digital development, it is natural to ask…

The Humanitarian Crusader: Who Has Performed Dignified Last Rites for Over 70,000 Unclaimed Bodies

Jag Mohan Thaken –India Some are born to serve the society; some to preserve the society and some to ‘swerve’ the society. But he has all these qualities. When due to the fear of the spread of Corona, everyone was…

Anjali Mehta: Conquering the 7 Summits & Gender-Based Violence – Part 1

Anjali Mehta is a 31 year-old mountain climber challenging the “seven summits” to support international agencies fighting gender-based violence and to bring attention to the rights of transgender girl athletes. In this first part of a two-part BCR program, we…

Venezuela Under Siege: A Hundred Deaths at Sea – Hundreds of Thousands by Sanctions

Washington is targeting the Venezuelan people in an escalating regime-change offensive, combining open military violence with an economic siege that has quietly claimed far more lives. By Roger D. Harris Most of the world looks on in disbelief at the…

Veterans For Peace Support ‘Don’t Give Up the Ship’! Active-Duty Military and National Guard Can Refuse Illegal Orders to Fight Illegal Wars

Veterans For Peace supports the members of Congress who produced the Don’t Give Up the Ship video to affirm and make clear the right and responsibility of all military servicemembers to refuse illegal orders.  We are appalled at the president of the…

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