International

His Holiness, Pope Francis Apostolic Palace 00120 Vatican City Your Holiness, Greetings from the grouping of Political and Social Leaders of the World to Stop the Danger of Nuclear War, initiated by the Schiller Institute in Germany. We have met…

Groups across the US will be holding vigils, takes and demonstrations this coming weekend to mark the second anniversary of entry into force on the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW). In Washington, DC we will be hanging…

According to ancient Kamite (African) philosophies, man must by his actions maintain the balance of the cosmos in all senses. This balance is observed in nature, in the sky, but especially in the body in its astral, mental and physical…

Between living beings there is a moral boundary that delimits the rights of one over the other. The idea that life belongs to us comes from way back, from a primitive ideology fanatically centred on man as the absolute owner…

This January 13 marks the tenth anniversary of Aaron Swartz’s physical departure. A day that has been instituted in his honor as “Cyberactivism Day”. Wikipedia – another magnificent undertaking of free access to collective knowledge – informs us that Aaron,…

After the human chain that surrounded the British Parliament on October 8th 2022 to demand the release of Julian Assange, the marathon on October 15th and the initiatives on December 10th, the next initiative will take place on Saturday February…

January 13, 2023, marked 51 years of bilateral ties between Myanmar and Bangladesh. Myanmar recognized Bangladesh as a sovereign state on January 13, 1972. There were many ups and downs between the two neighbors over these 51 years. Why was…

Original storage capacity lost to sediment by 2050: 1.65 trillion cubic meters, roughly equal to the combined annual water use of India, China, Indonesia, France and Canada Losses undermine water security, irrigation, power generation, more Trapped sediment has robbed roughly 50,000 large dams worldwide…

Around this time in January 2001, the idea of enabling the collaborative edition of the encyclopedia that would end up being created under the name of Wikipedia a few days later was launched. The immediate predecessor of Wikipedia was Nupedia,…

Yakov Rabkin, Professor Emeritus, Université de Montréal Samir Saul, Professor of History, Université de Montréal The war in the Ukraine has revived Western plans of dismembering Russia and, in the words of the promoters of this idea, to complete the…