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by George Banez Lunch for me these days at home in Florida simply retells the previous night’s dinner.  A quick reimagining of leftovers often suffices.  Occasionally, I make soup, sometimes Filipino Sinigang, sometimes Japanese Miso. Or I fry me some…

It seems like just yesterday, I was on my school’s campus having meetings with administrators, voicing demands to cut ties with Israel. Whether that was cancelling their study abroad trip to Israel or divesting from zionist institutions, the movement to…

Is it wars and genocide that dominate our lives, or is it our nihilistic consciousness that produces them? How have we lost the ability to feel grateful for the human process of the past five thousand years? In just the…

by Jag Mohan Thaken Punjab, the major grain producer state of India, has faced the brunt of the severe deluge during the last fortnight which has dashed all hopes of the inhabitants, especially the farmers of the state. It has inflicted…

If you are living in a major city, as I do in Lahore, and you do not have a few minutes to think alone, to gaze out the window, and to focus your consciousness inward upon your very self—then you…

The reconstruction of flood-devastated rural Punjab demands a radical departure from conventional donor-driven aid models. Grounded in the transformative praxis of Paulo Freire, this framework proposes a holistic, community-led approach that integrates physical rebuilding with socio-economic liberation. The core principle…

I ran the words through my mind as I taught the class.  The polite Japanese translation of  “today is my last day, I quit” scrolled across my forehead like a TV news ticker.   The words streamed as fast as…

The return of Donald Trump to the White House has caused a shift in long-established patterns in the conduct of international relations. Many countries around the world have been grappling with this challenge. For Canada, the issue is particularly acute…

Learn to love the reality you built.  Learn to recognize the sacred within you and around you. Learn to treat others the way you want to be treated. (Silo, Teachings 2025) The connection between the human beings and the stars started…

The sea opens paths that the powerful tried to close. From Barcelona sets sail the Global Sumud Flotilla, a flotilla of persistence, of constancy, of resistance. Half a hundred boats that do not carry bombs but food and medicine, that…