International

The first day of the formal part of the ICAN Conference on the humanitarian consequences of the use of nuclear weapons finished today with a relentless flow of extraordinary information about how even a limited nuclear exchange would leave a…

By David Krieger I would like to offer a few reflections in an effort to separate fact from fiction with regard to nuclear weapons, their capacity for devastation and our ability to assure global security by preventing their use. First,…

“Let’s begin to lead the hearts and minds to the culture of non-violence. If you think that the economic and political system is a disaster and both our future and the one of the continent is not assured anymore, then…

Chilean Humanist, Tomas Hirsch, gave a talk this morning at the University of Iceland in Reykjavik to members of the Spanish faculty, local humanists and members of the general public.  The theme that Hirsch was invited to develop was the…

Ft. Meade, MD–This Thursday, Feb. 28, from 9:30am in the courtroom at Ft. Meade, MD, Army Private First Class Bradley Manning is expected to publicly explain his reasons for releasing classified information through WikiLeaks. This will be only the second…

Police in Montreal have arrested ten university students during a protest against a decision by Quebec’s government to raise tuition fees. The demonstration on Tuesday had been organized by the student group Association pour un Solidarité Syndicale Étudiante (ASSE). The…

In 2008 Iceland became the focus of attention for progressive social movements around the world as the country’s only three (private) banks collapsed in the aftermath of the Lehman Brothers bank collapse in the USA.  As much to the surprise…

France has rejected any talk of pulling its troops out of Mali in the near future, saying the troops are involved in “very violent fighting” in the mountains of northern part of the African country. France’s Defense Minister Jean-Yves Le…

The Argentine government has deplored the UK for ignoring international obligations by dispatching nuke-armed submarines to the Malvinas islands (The Falklands), which is a nuclear free zone, thus breaching an international treaty. Eduardo Zuaim, Argentina’s Foreign Relations Secretary was quoted…

For those of us, who learned about our liberation war of 1971 through history books or from our parents, the 2013’s Shahbag has a different, unique and important meaning. Don’t get me wrong, nothing can be compared with ’71, nothing…