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UEFA relocates 2022 Champions League from St. Petersburg to Paris

Saint Petersburg, the second largest Russian city, has lost the hosting rights for the 2022 Union of the European Football Association (UEFA) champion league primarily due to the current Russia’s military invasion of Ukraine. By Kester Kenn Klomegah The Union…

The White-West is Back in Business

The West is back in business with a new war in Europe. After 60 years without real tension and no tanks on the streets (besides, Kosovo and Northern Ireland), the war machine is back in Ukraine. I’m not being sarcastic;…

US and Russian Physicians Warn War in Ukraine Risks Global Nuclear ‘Catastrophe’

A renowned organization comprised of U.S. and Russian physicians warned late Tuesday that a military conflict involving the two powers in Ukraine risks a nuclear “catastrophe” that could have horrific effects on all of Europe—and potentially the entire planet. By Jake…

Anthropocene: will nuclear weapons be our legacy in this geological era?

Anthropocene is the name given to the current geological period, as in the past we spoke of Pleistocene or Holocene. This new era or period is determined by the changes produced by human activity, biological or geological changes on a…

Inside the World Humanist Forum-Asia: A Chilean humanist gives his support for the forum

Antonio Carvallo is one of the organizers of the WHF-Asia. With a background in law from the University of Chile, he joined the starting Humanist Movement founded by Silo, Argentine author and spiritual guide, in 1969. Over the subsequent years,…

The magazine Ciclos, a space for humanist reflection, will be launched live at 21:00 on Tuesday 22 February at 9pm

Who are we? When certainties collapse, chasms and darkness open up, but so do hopes. Sharing fears and desires, a small collective of human beings who agree on the values of universalist humanism began to tune in. A handful of…

Time to start stopping the wars: No war in Ukraine, then no war anywhere.

The Ukraine crisis intensifies, with no clear path to resolution. A military confrontation between the United States and Russia, the world’s most heavily armed nuclear nations, could spell disaster. It is time for the people of the world to cry Enough! No…

US-NATO: More Militarisation, Less Peace for the World

In June of this year, while the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) Summit is being held in Madrid, Spain, social and pacifist organisations will hold, on the same days, the Summit for Peace as a way of expressing their opposition…

Public policies and legislation on digital issues: Are there advances or setbacks in Latin America?

Despite the existence of a good number of analytical documents that typify the diverse threats that the uncontrolled advance of monopolistic corporations over the internet and digital technologies poses to human rights and the equitable development of populations, state action…

What Russia wants

Russia does not want to invade Ukraine Both Russia’s President, Vladimir Putin, and its Foreign Secretary, Sergey Laverov, have repeatedly stated that Russia does not intend to invade Ukraine. Logic also tells us that if they had wished to do…

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