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The West – Where Are You Heading?
By Johan Galtung A world map shows the West is big, from the Atlantic to the Pacific oceans, from the Arctic Ocean to the Mediterranean-Black Sea-Russian border; but not that big. However, that is only Europe. Add Anglo-America, USA-Canada, from…
I.S. changes its strategy and bombs London tube using recycling carrier bags
Yes, it’s happened again! Another terrorist attack in London. This time in the tube and guess who did it? I.S. of course. “According to a translation by a Middle East observer Hassan Hassan, a message on the Isis’s propaganda page,…
The climate catastrophe we’re all ignoring
As fossil fuel-based economies continue, millions are suffering around the world. by Jeremy Lent for Common Dreams Imagine you’re driving your shiny new car too fast along a wet, curvy road. You turn a corner and realize you’re heading straight…
Global crises accelerate as Tax Havens hide trillions for world’s greedy few
While new research suggests 10 percent of world GDP held in offshore shelters, UN human rights expert says poorest paying enormous price by Jessica Corbett, staff writer for Common Dreams While the world’s richest stash trillions away for themselves, outlandish…
A nuclear bomb on New York can kill 6 million people in one go. Time to sign the Ban Treaty
Last week I had the great pleasure to interview Beatrice Fihn from the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, and towards the end of that interview Beatrice said quite matter-of-factly that no one would ever consider building bridges to Nazism…
A lesson from Hurricane Irma: capitalism can’t save the planet – it can only destroy it
The perpetual quest for growth drives our economics. That’s why our environment and financial system lurch from crisis to crisis By George Monbiot for The Guardian There was “a flaw” in the theory: this is the famous admission by Alan…
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.…
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