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After Ukraine and Russia, Belarus is also recording the first cases of political conscientious objectors refusing to participate in military mobilization for the ongoing war. Dvarashyn Vitali is an objector supported by nonviolent movements and he is facing the prospect…

In order to mobilize political will and resources for refugees, international days like the World Refugee Day on June 20th call attention to the challenges of those fleeing conflict and persecution in their home countries. While people all over the…

The most recent report of the World Economic Forum paints a rather dim picture of gender inequality worldwide. According to current research, it will take 132 years to close the global gender gap. While there certainly are significant differences between…

by Karina Santillan (Manila) and Tony Robinson (London) Illegal drugs are an issue that’s wider than the drug smugglers and cartels who bring them into the country and the corrupt police officers who protect them for a slice of the…

I am still at pains to internalize what sinister schemes Republican leaders in the House and Senate are concocting only to retain power, at whatever cost to the country and its future. The Republicans are terrified of the changing demographics…

India is at a historic crossroads. A sixth of the world’s population, nowhere else today democracy, social harmony and free speech are in such peril. By Partha Banerjee Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his powerful home minister Amit Shah have…

The International Network Against Global Military Bases, founded in 2018, is organizing this year the 6th International Congress Against Military Bases and War. Pressenza participates in the panel discussion. Without worldwide military bases, wars would not be possible. That is…

Rashid Hussain was forcibly abducted by the United Arab Emirates intelligence on 26 December 2018 from Dubai without any arrest warrant and deported to Pakistan. The Pakistani media broke the news of Rashid Hussain’s deportation from Dubai to Pakistan, but…

The evidence is starting to build that all bets are off on predictions that humanity has a decade, or more, of clear sailing before global warming turns vicious enough to run roughshod over climate change deniers and the mean-spirited anti-climate-change…

As this report wraps, the Golden Rule has sailed into the horror we have created, Groton-New London, Connecticut, where sixteen of our newest nuclear powered and nuclear weapon carrying submarines are being assembled.   Just one of these omnicidal subs…