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US-China trade: China is building bridges with the world while the US puts up walls
Yuka Kobayashi, SOAS, University of London for The Conversation China first built its famous Great Wall in the Qin dynasty during the third century BC. Never has there been a greater symbol of protectionism. But today China is outward facing…
Can we please have a conversation about what it means to be human?
Pride season is fully underway in the Northern Hemisphere with huge parades taking place in nearly every major western city. It is a big achievement in a relatively short period of time since the 70s when Pride Marches started out…
Why unarmed civilian protection is the best path to sustainable peace
By Annie Hewitt July 6, 2018 The first image that often comes to mind when one thinks of peacekeeping, especially within the frame of the United Nations, is that of the blue helmets: armed soldiers gathered from member states who are…
California Dreaming: Cannabis Cash, Public Banks—and the State’s Own Mini-Fed?
by Ellen Brown originally posted on Truthdig, 03/07/2018 Spurred by the heavily cash-reliant cannabis industry, Los Angeles residents will be the first in the country to vote on a public banking mandate, after the City Council agreed on June 29…
Craig Murray: No need For NATO
A NATO summit approaches that brings Donald Trump to Europe and then on to these shores, and brings the usual clamour for more of the taxpayers’ money to be given to arms manufacturers. Yet NATO is a demonstrably useless institution.…
Washington Moves Against Rafael Correa
by Paul Craig Roberts, July 4, 2018 the original article can be found here As President of Ecuador, Rafael Correa was a Godsend for the Ecuadorian people, for Latin American independence and for WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange. By serving justice and…
Barcelona welcomes Open Arms with a protest event aimed at Europe
On the occasion of the arrival of the humanitarian ship Open Arms in Barcelona, after having rescued sixty people in the Mediterranean, the organisation Proactiva Open Arms and various authorities from Barcelona and Catalonia, as well as the MEPs accompanying…
Barcelona and London allied against gentrification
Ada Colau (Mayor of Barcelona) and Sadiq Khan (Mayor of London) met on 3 October in London to agree on measures to combat the gentrification of large cities. In recent years, the original population in the centres of the world’s…
“God” sparks Division between a President and Citizens
In a summit on national communication and information technology in Davao, southern Philippines on June 22, President Rodrigo Duterte digressed to the unlikeliest of topics: Creation. And rambled in a booming voice: “Who is this stupid God? He is really…
MPI lauds Communities in South Cotabato and Ozamis City for Standing against Coal
WE, the Philippine Misereor Partnership, Inc. (PMPI) – a network of people’s organizations (POs), non-governmental organizations (NGOs), church/faith-based groups in partnership with MISEREOR, the social development arm of German Bishops, lauds South Cotabato’s community members for being resolute in their…
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