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Rapidly intensifying hurricanes are some of the most frightening and destructive types of extreme weather. Predicting them has been notoriously difficult for forecasters who have been unable to fully understand why some tropical storms or tropical depressions that seem commonplace can suddenly turn…

Wave upon wave of Israeli aircraft and missiles have been battering the Palestinian population in the Gaza Strip. This violence — the most brutal for decades — has already expended more firepower than the nuclear bomb on Hiroshima and has…

Just after another mass shooting by another veteran, the Washington Post reports: “A tiny fraction, only about 5% of people attempting suicide, use a gun. But guns are deadly almost every time, and so end up accounting for over half of suicide…

Under the title “Peace and Protest: Past and Present”, the programme includes 18 panels and two plenary sessions, as well as exhibitions by various peace organisations and a publications fair. Among the topics to be discussed are current issues such…

We were an unlikely pair. I was an American writer, peace activist and grandmother. Mansoor was a 21-year-old single man wanted by the Taliban in his home country of Afghanistan. But over 14 months, communicating only through email, text messages…

It will be convened by Pepe Mujica from Uruguay and will be joined by social, trade union, political and human rights movements from all over the continent. It will take place from 7 to 9 December in the Brazilian city.…

When I told my grandmother that I was going to visit Europe for the first time, she exploded, “Oy vey!” Raising her voice, she exclaimed: “There’s nothing there! NOTHING! Just poverty and filth.” Collecting herself, she added: “You like foreign…

On July 11th, 2022 NYC’s Office of Emergency Management (OEM) put up a Public Service Announcement (PSA). The day after this PSA, I both called and emailed to speak with whomever was responsible, and to find out why. In 2002…

From racist tweets to rising hate crimes, the media’s anti-China propaganda has created a climate of aggression. Two weeks ago, a man drove a car into the Chinese consulate in San Francisco, yelling “Where’s the CCP?” Arab Americans have been…

As people got off work on Thursday evening, October 19, the street in front of the Federal Building in San Francisco swelled with a spirited crowd chanting, “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free.” An ocean of…