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DiEM25: the courage to imagine and to the transform the EU
On Saturday, 9th of September, the week before the official speech by Jean-Claude Juncker, the President of the European Commission, on the State of the European Union, DiEM25[1] was in BOZAR theatre, Brussels, to show another vision of the European…
Mass mobilization stopped nuclear war before and it can again
By Duncan Meisel, September 5, 2017. for Waging Nonviolence The Trump administration is reviving the threat of nuclear war in a way that no other U.S. presidency has done since the Cold War. While the confrontation with North Korea’s expanding…
George Monbiot: how do we get out of this mess?
By George Monbiot for The Guardian Donald Trump. North Korea. Hurricanes. Neoliberalism. Is there any hope of a better world? Yes, but we have to come together to tell a new, kinder story explaining who we are, and how we…
Profit Maximization is Easy: Invest in Violence
For those of us committed to systematically reducing and, one day, ending human violence, it is vital to understand what is causing and driving it so that effective strategies can be developed for dealing with violence in its myriad contexts.…
Solidarity rather than ‘Lord of the flies’ is the default reaction
Paranoia-mongers and arms manufacturers surely love the post-apocalyptic films and TV series about people and towns fighting one another with deadly weapons in order to gain or defend their resources. Whether the scene is set in the present or a…
Nuclear weapons transferred from New York to Old York for medical treatment
International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, the 1985 Nobel Peace Prize winning organisation, gathered around 400 delegates from around the world today, 4th of September, in the old city of York in the United Kingdom, to consider strategy…
We Condemn North Korea for Its Nuclear Test
Yesterday, North Korea (Democratic People’s Republic of Korea) conducted its 6th nuclear test. This is a serious challenge to the international community, threatening peace and security of the world and the region. We firmly condemn this outrageous act, which blatantly…
Peace-Development-Environment: Integrated?
By Johan Galtung, These are the goals of the United Nations; the Hardanger Academy in little Jondal, Norway (population ca.1150) made them three foci. The problem arose: what do they have in common? Are they three aspects of the same…
Lessons from the North Korea crisis: Nuclear weapons cause war even when not used
By Gunnar Westberg The author has been twice to North Korea and maintains contacts with physicians in the North Korean branch of International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War in that country. ”If your country continues to develop nuclear…
Jimmy Carter and the US-North Korean Treaty Halting North Korea’s Development of Nuclear Weapons
By William James Martin, Very little, almost nothing has been mentioned in the press or on TV about Jimmy Carter and his negotiation resulting in an agreement by the North Koreans, in 1994, to halt its nuclear weapons program and…
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