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True Peace Demands the End of War: Unmasking the Illusions of Power and Profit

 OPEN LETTER AGAINST WAR Ladies and Gentlemen, representatives of citizens and peoples Stop the horror, the inadmissibility. Why are you leaving open the absurd possibility of resorting to nuclear weapons when the war in Ukraine has reached a total stalemate?…

Please Stop Saying That Every War Is Not a War But Something Bad

Yes, I’m going to say this again. I’ve heard not the slightest hint of a refutation or objection to it, and yet so many, many people ignore it. For the love of all that is decent, immediately stop the self-defeating…

Rohingya Crisis: A Call for Repatriation or Resettlement

The Rohingya people, victims of genocide and ethnic cleansing by Myanmar’s military junta, continue to face severe displacement and hardship. The internal crisis in Myanmar, particularly the renewed hostilities between the Arakan Army and the Junta, along with targeted attacks…

Antarctica’s Deep Vulnerability Exposed at 11th Scientific Conference

The 11 th Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research conference was held in Pucón, Chile August 19-23, 2024. Fifteen-hundred academics, researchers, and scientists specializing in Antarctica met to share cutting-edge research. Reports at the conference exposed new dimensions of the Antarctic…

Anura Kumara Dissanayake: A Vision of Unity for Sri Lanka’s Future

On September 21, the people of Sri Lanka have elections to vote for a new president for a five-year term. Since its independence from the United Kingdom in 1948, there have been successive conservative governments, more or less authoritarian and…

Oil energy holding co-piloted by Russia and China?

Since alternative energies still need huge subsidies to be viable in developing countries, the practice of fracking (a kind of panacea that will solve the energy problems of humanity) Environmental concerns, and the inertia of oil assets will not allow…

NATO: Not A Tenable Option

Remarks on Canada-Wide Peace & Justice Network webinar on August 28, 2024 When NATO gathered in Washington D.C. several weeks ago, we held a counter-summit and a rally, did a bunch of interviews, wrote a bunch of articles, etc. All the videos…

Humans Rescue Doomsday Glacier?

It was only 3 years ago when a group of distinguished climate scientists led by Erin C. Pettit (Oregon State University) said Thwaites Eastern Ice Shelf of the Thwaites Glacier/Antarctica, aka Doomsday Glacier, could collapse “within as little as 5…

Muhammad Yunus Has Read The Writing On The Wall

Commemorating the Monsoon Revolution by the students who deposed Prime Minister Shiekh Hasina, the Nobel laureate Dr Muhammad Yunus made a scornful remark. He told Delhi to shut Hasina’s mouth while living in exile in India. In an interview with…

Who Wants to Kill and Die for the American Empire?

The Associated Press reports that many of the recruits drafted under Ukraine’s new conscription law lack the motivation and military indoctrination required to actually aim their weapons and fire at Russian soldiers. By Nicolas J. S Davies “Some people don’t want to…

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