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Juanfe Jiménez of Proactiva Open Arms: “Citizen power can bring change”
Juanfe Jiménez is the medical co-ordinator of NGO Proactiva Open Arms and took part in a plenary session entitled ‘Violence to Displaced People and Refugees: Sanctuary Cities’ during the World Forum on Urban Violence and Education for Coexistence and Peace held in Madrid. He talks here about his work, what… »
Al Jazeera Exposes Israel-Backed Attacks on US Activists
Al Jazeera’s undercover film The Lobby – USA, censored by Qatar, has finally been published by The Electronic Intifada. Editor Ali Abunimah discusses the documentary’s explosive revelations, exposing Israel-backed attacks on US activists. Watch the documentary here. The Real News Network, November 13, 2018 Story Transcript… »
The Political Responsibility in the Collapse of Our Planet
By Roberto Savio* It is now clear that we have lost the battle in keeping the planet as we have known it. Now, of course, this can be considered a personal opinion of mine, devoid of objectivity. Therefore, I will bring a lot of data, history and facts, to make… »
Following Bolsonaro’s statements, Cuba announces its withdrawal from the “More Doctors” program in Brazil
Jair Bolsonaro, president elect of Brazil, who has made direct, contemptuous and threatening comments against the presence of our doctors, has declared and reiterated that he will modify the terms and conditions of the More Doctors program , disregarding the Pan-American Health Organization Declaration from the Cuban Ministry of Public… »
Only Jews Can Tell The Truth About Israel
Paul Craig Roberts, November 13, 2018 Imagine what would happen to Chomsky if he were a white gentile Chomsky Warns of the Rise of ‘Judeo-Nazi Tendencies’ in Israel November 12, 2018 “Information Clearing House” – Prominent Jewish intellectual Noam Chomsky has raised concerns over what he believes… »
No to NATO, No to Bases, No to Wars in Distant Places
By David Swanson As I head over to Ireland for a conference on closing U.S. and NATO military bases around the world — and at which some of us will make plans for protesting NATO in Washington on April 4, 2019 — the presidents of France and Germany… »
Sanctions and Embargoes – Should Civilian Populations Be Less Protected in Peacetime than in War?
By Ambassador Idriss Jazairy* Everyone remembers the catastrophic consequences on human rights of broad trade embargoes imposed under the authority of the United Nations in the 1990s, especially with respect to Iraq. This was widely documented at the time. It prompted a shift away from comprehensive to so-called ‘smart’… »
The international news agency for Peace and Nonviolence Pressenza celebrates its 10th anniversary
We live in the midst of a violent system that privileges money over human beings. That concentrates power in a few hands, preventing equal opportunities for development. A system that promotes a cruel individualism, determined to suffocate any collective project. Since November 2008, born originally to report on the… »
The War to End War 100 Years On: An Evaluation and Reorientation of our Resistance to War
British author and social commentator H.G. Wells may have coined the expression that originally popularized World War I as The War that Will End War, as his book, based on articles written during that vast military conflict, was… »
By definition nuclear weapons are genocidal, xenophobic and racist
At the II World Forum on Urban Violence and Education for Coexistence and Peace, in Madrid from the 5th to the 8th of November, Pressenza took the opportunity to cover activities carried out by the international team of activists from ICAN. A combined presentation by Dr. Aurora Bilbao… »
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International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons
