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Peace Prize winner says reliance on nukes ‘borders on insanity’

The former head of the International Atomic Energy Agency is more worried about a terrorist group getting its hands on a nuclear weapon than a nation such as Iran obtaining and using one, reports David Proeber writing for The Pantagraph.…

EuroMarches denounce big commercial shopping centres in Mérida, Spain

After a long stretch on foot, the South-West column of EuroMarches reached Mérida. On arrival, an action took place at a big Aldi hypermarket, the German multinational, in which the ruination of the small shopping centres of the towns and…

“The man who saved the world” 32 years ago. Jeremy is right.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6WvXxMkBWg Jeremy Corbyn, long standing antinuclear campaigner and Member of the UK Parliament, now Leader of the Labour Party,  answered in an interview that he would not press the Red Button. It unleashed a storm inside and outside his party,…

EuroMarches joins the Day of Nonviolence

On the International day of Nonviolence, EuroMarches celebrated the meaning of this principle which underlines this citizen initiative. Yesterday’s events, which centred on the condemnation of tax havens located within the EU, culminated in Seville where a thousand people received…

Iran’s invisible opportunity

Amory B. Lovins, a physicist and ex-Oxford don, is co-founder and chief scientist of the USA’s Rocky Mountain Institute, an independent, entrepreneurial, nonprofit think-and-do institution. Lovins has written a worthy if rather long article titled: “Iran’s invisible opportunity”, here we…

UK bans the EuroMarches from entering Gibraltar

The British government has refused entry into Gibraltar to those marching on the South-East Route, communicating its position through an official document passed to us by the organisers. By Rafael de la Rubia and Maribel Martínez (spokespersons for the EuroMarches2015)…

European citizens self-survey

Euro-Survey will take place from the 1st to the 17th of October and will be promoted by EuroMarches2015 This citizens’ initiative consists of doing an opinion survey of European citizens during EuroMarches2015[1], in all European languages, about the 5 central…

Will TTIP get terminated? Negotiations falter as Europe balks

As EU-US trade talks flounder, France doesn’t rule out ‘an outright termination of negotiations’ by Deirdre Fulton, staff writer for Common Dreams While public opposition to the TransAtlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP)—the massive proposed “trade” deal between the European…

The Papel Encyclical: Ecological Crisis and Globalization

Pope Francis’ encyclical Laudato Si, is an urgent call for a world-wide dialogue on the defining issue of the 21st century: climatic change and the future of the planet. The Papal encyclical builds upon the tradition of Catholic thought on…

Warning: TTIP aims to defang local rules against hazardous chemicals

New report finds that the Trans-Atlantic Trade and Investment Partnership poses a threat to state regulations against hazardous pesticides, products, and fracking chemicals by Sarah Lazare, staff writer for Common Dreams The mammoth Trans-Atlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) under…

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