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The tricks of the discourse

The incessant flow of information has us on the verge of total scepticism. The world is in the midst of an underhand struggle, where there is no fire on the front lines and no victims to be seen falling. It…

A young Bhutanese artist talks about herself. Interview with Sonam Yangdon

Today I’ll tell you a pleasant chat with Sonam Yangdon – Broke Bhutanese Artist- a young 19 year old girl who grew up in a village in Bumthang, central Bhutan, and who has been living in Australia with her family…

The Difficult But More Humane And Sane Option

“Putin Puppets” Over the last two months, we’ve seen and heard a near-uniform drumbeat, a corporately funded chorus of news people, pundits, and Hollywood stars pushing for pretty much every form of military escalation in Ukraine. Curiously, there has been…

“I call to reject the Rejection”, Marco Enriquez-Ominami

We spoke with Marco Enriquez-Ominami, a Chilean-French politician and a reference point for Latin American progressivism. Philosopher, filmmaker, former deputy, four-time candidate for the Presidency of Chile, founder of the Progressive Party, the Progresa Foundation and the Puebla Group. By…

Signs of the oldest life on Earth discovered

Researchers in Canada have discovered fossils of some of the earliest forms of life on Earth, dating back some 4.28 billion years. An international group of scientists claim to have found in a fossil rock the oldest signs of life…

Good sign: truce in Yemen war holds

The truce agreed in the Yemeni armed conflict between the Saudi-led coalition and the ruling Houthi forces is now entering its third week. The UN-mediated cessation of hostilities, initially expected to last at least two months with the possibility of…

Western-Led Globalization Might End, but the New Globalization Might Have an Eastern Face

An article written by authors John Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge for Bloomberg on March 24 sounded the alarm to announce the end of “the second great age of globalization.” The Western trade war and sanctions against China that predated the…

Statement of The Ukrainian Pacifist Movement Against Perpetuation of War

Ukrainian Pacifist Movement is gravely concerned about the active burning of bridges for a peaceful resolution of the conflict between Russia and Ukraine on both sides and signals of intentions to continue the bloodshed indefinitely to achieve some sovereign ambitions. We…

Why Are Humans Fighting Other Humans when We Are Facing Extinction as a Species?

For critical thinkers, the cascading consequences of the Ukraine war are redundant proofs of what they already knew before the war: there are no solutions to humanity´s principal problems inside the framework of the basic legal and ethical structures of…

NYC: No War No Warming Monday April 18 Tax Day Protest at 12 Noon

NO War NO Warming Monday, April 18 at 12:00 PM Noon Location: Manhattan, NYC IRS office at 290 Broadway Between Reade and Duane Street (#6 Train to Brooklyn Bridge, walk one block west on Duane Street) The climate and peace…

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