Politics

“Macri Becomes President-Elect with 51. 4% of Votes “Mauricio Macri, the candidate of the Cambiemos (Let`s Change) coalition, won Sunday´s runoff with 51.4% of the votes and became the President-elect of Argentina, scheduled to succeed President Cristina Fernandez next December…

From the blog of Lantau Confidential – NOTES FROM THE BIG ISLAND Poll result shows it’s time to pause Lantau ‘development’ The Islands District Council result yesterday reflected Hong Kong as a whole; the pro-government and pan-Dem forces basically fought a…

The big – not great – powers of the world have embassies everywhere, plenty of intelligence services, special forces on the ground and satellites in space. They can even hit and kill individuals they don’t like. They can intervene here and…

20 November 2015 – While much has been achieved in Northern Ireland in the nearly 20 years since a peace accord ended decades of fighting between British forces and the Irish Republican Army (IRA) and the different communities, urgent issues…

Buenos Aires, Nov 22 (Prensa Latina) The polling stations opened normally today and 32,64,323 Argentineans are voting in a day full of expectation to elect a new president after an intense, prolonged and strenuous campaign. Since 08:00 o’clock, local time,…

Having finished the XV World Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates in Barcelona, and given the level of violence and tension that the whole of humanity is experiencing these days, The charter for a world without violence presented by the Nobel…

Unofficial blockade on Nepal by India – Humanist Movement Nepal’s “worldwide Appeal” This blockade is having the following effects on Nepal’s ordinary people in their everyday lives: *Fuel for transportation and gas for cooking are in short supply and this can…

The Islamic State’s latest atrocities are a calculated effort to bring the war in Syria home to the countries participating in it. by Peter Certo for Common Dreams A café. A stadium. A concert hall. One of the most horrifying…

By George Monbiot for The Guardian. It’s like the crucial moment in Graham Greene’s novel The Quiet American. The US agent stares at the blood on his shoes, unable to make the connection between the explosion he commissioned and the…

Dutch version of Campaign through social networks calling for peace and nonviolence Op de sociale netwerken begon vandaag een bericht te circuleren dat oproept tot een houding van Vrede en geweldloosheid als reactie op de aanslagen die gisteravond plaats vonden…