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An Open Letter to the Global Media by Greta Thunberg and Vanessa Nakate

Dear media editors around the world, Melting glaciers, wildfires, droughts, deadly heatwaves, floods, hurricanes, loss of biodiversity. These are all symptoms of a destabilizing planet, which are happening around us all the time. Those are the kind of things you…

The Unconscionable Hypocrisy of the Federal Spending Debate

Why is it controversial to spend on social programs but not the Pentagon? Or to subsidize the poor but not the rich? By Sister Karen M. Donahue Right now, the United States is locked in a contentious debate over the Build…

Why the Troubled U.S. Empire Could Quickly Fall Apart

The U.S. wars lost in Iraq and Afghanistan showed imperial overreach beyond what even 20 years of war could manage. That the defeats were drawn out for so many years shows that domestic politics and the funding of the domestic…

How Myth Can Save The World: An Interview With Pía Figueroa

By Sonja Ryst When Pía Figueroa Edwards was fifteen years old, she began to study the work of the Argentine writer Mario Rodríguez Cobos, also known as “Silo.” His philosophy, which explores how to end human suffering and attain self-transformation,…

COVID-19 Pandemic and the Global Humanity

By Mahboob A. Khawaja, PhD. “Has civilization taught us to be more friendly towards one another?  Bertrand Russell, the British philosopher and intellectual and explains further:  …Within the herd, we are more friendly to each other than are many species…

Bangladesh PM Sheikh Hasina’s recent meeting with Pakistani envoy has a message for India

by Pathik Hasan Pakistan High Commissioner to Bangladesh Imran Ahmed Siddiqui’s recent meeting with Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina was comprehensively covered in the media. It only shows the strategic significance of the meeting. The meeting has messages for the…

Nicole Myers: “We are definitely working on the Yes Road”.

We spoke with Nicole Myers, New Yorker, Silo messenger and co-promoter of the Hudson Valley Park of Study and Reflection, near New York City. The conversation was part of the commemoration of the “Mission of the 80s”, a series of…

The book “Nonviolent Journalism: towards a humanising approach to communication” was presented

As part of the activities of the Nonviolent October in Ecuador, the International News Agency Pressenza today presented its most recent publication: “Nonviolent Journalism: towards a humanising approach to communication”. The book is the result of a reflection on the…

Open World Meeting New Humanism: “The human being as a central value”.

On the 5th, 6th and 7th of November, the Open World Meeting of New Humanism will be held virtually, with the slogan “The Human Being as a Central Value”. Its objective is to be an intermediate milestone for a larger…

Sofía Scasserra: “A supranational digital economy is being generated, over our heads”.

A few days ago, the Transnational Institute published the report: Digital Colonialism, an analysis of the European trade agenda. “Cuatro elementos” interviewed Sofía Scasserra, research associate at the Transnational Institute, to discuss the key points of the report. Q: Remind…

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