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Reflections on omnicide, nuclear deterrence and a Maginot Line in the mind

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,…

Why doesn’t France like Oslo?

This article comes from the monthly bulletin of Armes Nucléaires STOP. The conference proposed by Norway on “humanitarian nuclear disarmament” is judged by France to be an “error”. France’s only problem is that of nuclear proliferation, disarmament is not on…

Russia: Free Pussy Riot Members. One Year Behind Bars

Russian authorities should immediately and unconditionally free the two members of the feminist punk group Pussy Riot who remain behind bars, Human Rights Watch said today. The two women, Nadia Tolokonnikova and Maria Alyokhina, have been in detention since their…

African campaign for Education of Non-violence

“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…

Active Non-Violence, Southern Ocean style…

We live in an age of holistic knowledge. We live in an age where we increasingly see Planet Earth, or more specifically, all the biological organisms that live on it, and their respective environments, as interdependent. We have come to…

Tomas Hirsch: People can’t survive by eating macroeconomics

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…

Bradley to take stand tomorrow to justify WikiLeaks releases

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…

UK to snub discussions on humanitarian consequences of nuclear weapons

Campaigners say this shows why a ban treaty must go ahead without them  The UK has said today that it will not be participating in next week’s international conference on the humanitarian consequences of nuclear weapon use. The meeting will…

Police arrest university students in Montreal demo

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…

Bangladesh – should Jamaat-e-Islami be banned?

Today there is widespread disgust and hatred across Bangladesh against the Jamaat-e-Islami, the principal Bangladeshi voice of political Islam. Jamaat stands condemned for its support for Pakistan during 1971 when it embraced a forefront role in collaboration with the genocidal…

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