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While Ontario Power Generation (OPG) plans to permanently shut down the eight nuclear reactors at Pickering by 2020 (two of them are already retired), OPG is seeking an unprecedented thirteen year operating licence for its four nuclear reactors at Darlington.…

We have talked to Pia Figueroa Edwards, an activist for non-violence and peace from Chile. We have asked her questions about humanism as the right way to go, about her socio-political acitivity, about her strategy. A great woman, strong, and…

Pakistan India Peoples’ Forum for Peace and Democracy Joint Statement Is it really about who started it? The Ceasefire violations on the LoC and the International Border, by India and Pakistan must stop immediately September 3, 2015 The Indian government…

Seventy year’s on from the defeat of Japan in Asia and China has held a military style anniversary parade, inviting the world’s leaders to come together but the at-odds US and European government’s leaders stayed away, also their fellow travellers…

Titled, “Somber reflections on the last days of the Pacific War at the ‘Chapel of the Thunder Gods’”,  Hong Kong-based journalist Steven Knipp was published in Time on this day marking the 70-year anniversary of Japan’s surrender. (Extracts follow, for…

Yesterday morning in Budapest I was at a sports club where I often go, moving my body to combat the effects of time, and as I came out I heard the sound of a police motorbike coming towards me with…

“The murder of three journalists in two weeks shows how the lack of progress in ending impunity has emboldened those bent on silencing the press in the Philippines.” Will their killers be brought to justice? – asks Andrew Emett of…

Eight countries to sharpen long-term climate change adaptation strategies FAO and UNDP join forces under German-funded initiative to raise profile of agriculture in climate change planning A farmer in Viet Nam clearing overgrowth surrounding a small tree in an effort…

Antonis Broumas, from Greece, is an investigative lawyer and activist who works mainly on building bridges between law, technology and society.  He participates in social organisations in Greece which promote autonomy and the commons. Broumas was in Quito between the…

“The U.S. should be applauding India’s efforts to scale up solar energy—not turning to the WTO to strike the program down.” by Nadia Prupis, staff writer for Common Dreams The World Trade Organization (WTO) on Wednesday ruled against India over…