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Why More Upstream Care Ethics Are Badly Needed

The time has come for ethics of care. In the plural. Reverberating through revivals of venerable old spiritual caring traditions. Reverberating through adoptions of benevolent new innovative caring practices. My story starts in Sweden in the late 1980s. A young…

In Chile the elite only pay fines for abuse and crime

The governing alliance in Chile today is dealing with “damage control”, after it was revealed in the press that influence peddling was used to financially feed, with direct and millionaire flows, NGOs administered by cadres of Giorgio Jackson’s party, “Revolución…

To be a pacifist in Ukraine, the toughest job: They call me a traitor

Yurii Sheliazenko , leader of the Nonviolent Movement in Kiev speaks: “I risk my life, but I am not intimidated by warmongers. Putin and Zelensky remain supreme peace deniers and seek victory on the ground. They lack imagination in building…

The Greenland Threat Escalates

Will the world’s major coastal cities, such as NYC, survive escalating global heat conditions in Greenland? And what if both Greenland and Antarctica follow the recent very disturbing pattern of the world’s oceans? For the first time that scientists can…

Passing of Peace Activist and Whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg – Reflections on the Security State and the Anti-war Movement

Daniel Ellsberg died on June 16, fighting to the end to warn of the existential threat of nuclear war. The 92-year-old whistleblower left a legacy of peace activism dating to his courageous release of the Pentagon Papers in 1971. Given…

I Used to Be an Animal Lover Conversation Mitchell, Jimmy & Jhon Part III

This is Part III of our multi-dialogue conversation among the contributors to I Used to Be an Animal Lover, edited by D.A. Cairns. Part I contains the conversation of Rhys Hughes, Barbara Reins and Mitchell Toews. In Part II, Boris…

The Ocean Red Zone

Oceans of the world are in a dangerous red zone that exceeds safe limits for marine and terrestrial life because of excessive heat. Several statements by climate scientists show heightened concerns about how this plays out, as 2023 could be…

Interview: Who is Lu Evans? Another Voice from Vozes Intergácticas

Last year I submitted my short story, “The Japanese Rice Cooker” to the Brazilian anthology Fator Morus edited by Lu Evans. Since then, I have witnessed Lu’s relentless efforts to publish speculative writers from around the world. She does everything…

Deconstructing the myth of violence. An investigation of the effectiveness of civil resistance

At a time when not only has war returned even to Europe, but bellicism – that is, the ideology of war – has taken on an unprecedented media and political centrality in our country’s [i.e. Italy’s] republican history, the Italian…

The Danger of Peace

“When violence causes silence, then we’re doing something wrong,” says a Cranberries lyric. This was the first thing that came to my mind when I saw the figures of two studies that came out last Monday, on arms spending (SIPRI)[1]…