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7 steps to end the cycle of violence in Israel and Palestine

The path to peace requires nonviolent action not just from Israelis and Palestinians, but also from Americans, the media, aid organizations, and others. By Mubarak Awad I have spent my life advocating for Palestinians and Israelis to use nonviolent means…

Julian Assange made honorary citizen of Rome by the City Council today

Rome, Caput Mundi at the time of the Roman Empire, cradle (together with Florence) of Renaissance humanism, Gold Medal for Military Valour during the Resistance, the city that gave birth to the European Community (later the European Union), today boasts…

Mohammad Muizzu’s ”India Out’ Policy’’-Where It Will Take the Maldives?

After a fiercely contested presidential race in the Maldives, Mohamed Muizzu emerged victorious on September 30. Muizzu has always been known as pro-China. It is believed that China’s influence on the country will increase with the hand of Muizzu. But,…

Who was after Dominique Bernard?

Friday, October 13, 2023, around 11 a.m., Mohammed Mogouchkov, a 20 years old young man originally from Ingushetia, a Russian Caucasian Republic neighboring Chechnya, with two knives in his hands, burst into his former high school, the Gambetta High School…

Hubert Reeves, born July 13, 1932 in Montreal, died October 13, 2023 in Paris

Thank you from Artists for Peace! Thank you for your support during Montreal ceremonies marking the indelible memory of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, organized by Mayor Pierre Bourque (Montreal). Thank you for the undeniable love shown as an astrophysicist to our…

Gaza, MSF: “Hospitals overloaded, medical supplies almost exhausted and limited access to drinking water”

15 October 2023 – In the north of the Gaza Strip the situation is dramatic, hospitals are overloaded and drugs and painkillers are running out. The wounded scream in pain, while those who need treatment are unable to reach hospitals…

Constitutional Process: It started badly and ended worse

Women’s rights are being rolled back; the possibility of improving the quality of life in the poorest municipalities is being rejected when contributions are taken away from the municipal common fund; the privatisation of health, welfare and education is being…

Indigenous peoples, democracies and territories

In times of elections, advances of right-wing options and democracies in crisis, indigenous peoples propose other models of life: without exploiting nature, with solidarity, complementarity and reciprocity. Overcoming genocide, structural racism, extractive governments and millenarian peoples who mark out paths.…

Conservatives win New Zealand legislative elections, Indigenous Voice rejected in the Australian referendum

In the New Zealand parliamentary elections, the National Party, led by Christopher Dixon, has won by a clear margin over the Labour Party of current Prime Minister Chris Hipkins. According to data from the New Zealand Electoral Commission, the conservative…

‘The Overwhelming Majority of Disasters Are Water Related’: WMO Report Finds Human Activity Disrupting Water Cycle

According to a new report from the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), the planet’s hydrological cycle is “spinning out of balance” due to human activity and climate change. Extreme rainfall and droughts, seemingly two opposites on a spectrum of extreme weather, are bringing unprecedented and frequent damage…

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