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EU-Turkey Rift Widens
by Abdus Sattar Ghazali
The rift between the European Union and Turkey is escalating as President Erdogan has accused the EU countries of persecuting Muslims like Jews were during World War II while the spirit of fascism was running wild on the streets of Europe.
Trump And The Last Chance For Resistance
by Chris Hedges
There is a hierarchy to oppression. It begins with the most vulnerable—undocumented workers, Muslims, poor people of color. It works upward. It is a long row of candles that one by one are extinguished. If we wait to resist, as the poet C.P. Cavafy wrote, the “dark line gets longer” and “the snuffed-out candles proliferate.”
Reality And The U.S.-Made Famine In Yemen
by Kathy Kelly
This week at the Voices for Creative Nonviolence office in Chicago, my colleague Sabia Rigby prepared a presentation for a local high school. She’ll team up with a young friend of ours, himself a refugee from Iraq, to talk about refugee crises driven by war. Sabia recently returned from Kabul where she helped document the young Afghan Peace Volunteers’ efforts to help bring warmth, food and education to internally displaced families living in makeshift camps, having fled the Afghan War when it raged near their former homes.
Yemen: Workers And Their Families Left To Starve By Multi-Billionaire Companies
by Cedric Gerome
After having made huge profits through the exploitation of Yemeni workers for years in peacetime conditions, French energy giant multinational TOTAL and British company G4S have used the circumstances of the war for a “hit-and-run” wage robbery. They assumed they could get away with it thanks to the international media blackout on Yemen and to the dysfunctional and collapsing state infrastructure in the country
Americans Support Increasing Budget of Most Wasteful Federal Department
by Eric Zuesse
There is so much that is essential for the American public to know and to understand, that they are instead confused and misinformed about; but the powers-that-be benefit greatly by the public’s misinformation and confusion, and so it will certainly continue; but is this democracy, or is it dictatorship — and, if the latter, then whom is it actually serving? Who is Big Brother? Actually?
Apartheid Israel
by Dr Chandra Muzaffar
If anyone doubts that Israel is guilty of the crime of apartheid, he should read the report “Israeli Practices towards the Palestinian People and the Question of Apartheid” commissioned by the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA). The report released on the 15th March 2017 and posted on the ESCWA website has now been removed on the orders of the UN Secretary-General, pressurised, it is alleged, by the governments of Israel and the United States both of whom have denounced the report in harsh terms.
Towards A Rational World Of Peace And Humanity: America, Europe And Russia
by Dr Mahboob A Khawaja
Leadership is an art, it can be improved if leaders are open to listening, flexible and adaptable to the challenging facts of human affairs and have passion for facts, not fantasy. The informed and spirited global humanity could help the entrenched leaders to make a navigational change for global peace and One Humanity.
Apollo-Earth: A Wake Up Call In Our Race against Time
by Rupert Read
Let’s hear the alarm that our climate system is sounding, loud and clear. Let’s prove that we are rational beings (as Aristotle, possibly the greatest philosopher of Ancient Greece, famously claimed). Rationality today doesn’t mean exploring options for colonizing another planet, it means an unprecedented journey into our own survival on planet Earth: Apollo-Earth.
FAO’s Bioenergy Themed International Day Of Forests Is A Threat To Mother Earth
by Souparna Lahiri
Every year, 21st March is celebrated as the International Day of Forests, so designated by the United Nations to highlight the importance of forests. This year, the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has announced the theme of “Forests and Energy”, calling forests “nature’s power house,” highlighting that forests are not anymore just energy providers for basic cooking and heating needs, but can power cars and airplanes through modern biofuels.
On 86th Martyrdom Day Of Bhagat Singh, Rajguru & Sukhdev: British Rulers Hanged Them Once, Indian Rulers Hang Them Everyday!
by Shamsul Islam
On March 23, 2017, we will be commemorating 86th year of the great martyrdom of the three revolutionaries, Bhagat Singh, Rajguru and Sukhdev. However, with every passing year sadness keeps on growing that so far as mainstream political set-up is concerned their sacrifices attract only ceremonial attention that too occasionally. Indian democracy despite being seven decades mature has brazenly missed two important aspects of these sacrifices.
Yoga & Yogi Have Nothing In Common
by Neha Saigal
It becomes all the more critical now for citizens of democratic and secular India to voice their opinion and save their idea of a country where people should be able to live without fear. As for me, I am disheartened that the science of yoga is become synonyms with Hindutva. If only Yogi Adityanath carried forward the true tradition of yoga, we would all be having a different conversation in Independent India.
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