Visitors: 517Moin Qazi, PhD Economics, PhD English, is the author of the bestselling book, Village Diary of a Heretic Banker. He has worked in the development finance sector for almost four decades in India “If you care about the poorest, you care about agriculture.” — Bill Gates The naked and cruel truth about India is that agriculture […]
Visitors: 553 Dr Gary G Kohls is a retired physician from Duluth, MN, USA. He writes a weekly column for the Duluth Reader, the area’s alternative newsweekly magazine. His columns deal with the dangers of American fascism, corporatism, militarism, racism, malnutrition, Big Pharma’s psychiatric drugging and over-vaccination regimens, and other movements that threaten the environment, health, democracy, […]
Visitors: 1,108 Contents Overview of the articles about Trump’s victory The methodology of scientific analysis Trump’s program of peacefulness and peacemaking3.1. Complete rejection from aggressive geopolitics of Obama-Clinton 3.2. Coherent and rational geopolitics instead of aggression 3.3. The center of Trump’s peacefulness: peace and cooperation with Russia and China 3.4. Trump: peace and prosperity require […]
Visitors: 330The month old gamble of Mr. Modi (November 2016) has put the whole country in an unprecedented chaos. The demonetization of 86.4% of the circulating currency in the form of Rs 500 and 1000 rupee notes has put into jeopardy the life of major sections of society. Nearly seventy people have died in the […]
Visitors: 447Rev. John Dear is an internationally known voice for peace and nonviolence. A long time activist, popular lecturer, and movement organizer, John is the author of 30 books and hundreds of articles, including “Living Peace,” “Jesus the Rebel,” and “The Nonviolent Life.” He was recently nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize by Archbishop Desmond […]
Visitors: 259Kirity Roy 12 December 2016 To The District Magistrate Coochbehar District Dear Sir, Here I want to draw your kind attention on continuity of apathy towards the erstwhile enclave dwellers by the Governments of India and West Bengal. Till date they are devoid with citizenry guarantees and deliverances. I am writing you with deep […]
Visitors: 708 Robert J. Burrowes has a lifetime commitment to understanding and ending human violence. He has done extensive research since 1966 in an effort to understand why human beings are violent and has been a nonviolent activist since 1981. He is the author of ‘Why Violence?‘ On the day that you read this article, […]
Visitors: 615 S Kamal Abdali is a computer scientist and has worked mainly in the theoretical and foundational areas of that discipline. Having served in universities, industrial research labs, and governmental research agencies, he is now retired and lives in Arlington, Virginia, USA. Nakedness makes a lot of sense as a form of protest. Subjecting […]
Visitors: 1,128 Prof Leo M. Semashko, Ph.D Founding President, Global Harmony Association (GHA) since 2005; GHA Honorary President since 2016; State Councilor of St. Petersburg; Philosopher, Sociologist and Peacemaker from Harmony; Author of more than 400 scientific publications, including 18 books in 1-12 languages; Author of Tetrism as the unity of Tetraphilosophy and Tetrasociology – […]
Visitors: 936The picture expresses the unknown reality of society and the new entity (the reason, the source, the actors, the guarantor, the foundation) of global peace: a deep societal structure of general harmonious classes of the population employed in four eternal spheres of social production. Therefore, these unique classes were named SPHERONS. The eternal harmony […]
Visitors: 624 Diane Perlman, Ph.D. is a member of the TRANSCEND Network for Peace, Development and Environment and a Visiting Scholar, George Mason University School for Conflict Analysis and Resolution. 30 November 2016 Dear President-Elect Trump, with special attention to Ivanka, Melania and Kellyanne, Congratulations on your election. I am among those who were shocked and […]
Visitors: 1,502 Dr. Gary Corseri is a member of the TRANSCEND Network for Peace, Development and Environment. He has published and posted articles, fiction and poems at hundreds of venues, including, TMS, The New York Times, Village Voice, Redbook Magazine and Counterpunch. He has published 2 novels and 2 collections of poetry, and his dramas […]
Visitors: 504 Prof Johan Galtung, a professor of peace studies, dr hc mult, is founder of the TRANSCEND Network for Peace, Development and Environment and rector of the TRANSCEND Peace University-TPU. Prof. Galtung has published 1670 articles and book chapters, over 450 Editorials for TRANSCEND Media Service, and 167 books on peace and related issues, of which 41 […]
Visitors: 895 Jayan Mitra was born at Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala (India) in 1972. His primary and high school training he received at the Gandhian school and ashram Mitraniketan near Thiruvananthapuram. Gandhian values became part and parcel of his life ever since. Already in his student days he started to identify and collect photographs and other material […]
Visitors: 343November 25, 2016, Chicago, USA Subject: Satyagraha for Clean Money in AAP Dear Arvind: On the eve of Foundation Day (November 26) of Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), I wish to bring to your kind attention that the list of donations from party’s website was removed more than 5 months back. Despite the presence of more […]
Visitors: 565Robert J. Burrowes has a lifetime commitment to understanding and ending human violence. He has done extensive research since 1966 in an effort to understand why human beings are violent and has been a nonviolent activist since 1981. He is the author of ‘Why Violence?‘ One of the more subtle manifestations of the intimate […]
Visitors: 513 Officials have identified two new sites for the greater one-horned rhinoceros in northern West Bengal in India: Buxa Tiger Reserve and a small reserve in Patlakhawa in Cooch Behar. All of the 250 rhinos in West Bengal are concentrated in just two locations — Jaldapara and Gorumara National Parks. Forest officials say rhino […]
Visitors: 608 Robert J. Burrowes has a lifetime commitment to understanding and ending human violence. He has done extensive research since 1966 in an effort to understand why human beings are violent and has been a nonviolent activist since 1981. He is the author of ‘Why Violence?‘ In early 2011, as the Arab Spring was […]
Visitors: 516How a ruthless network of super-rich ideologues killed choice and destroyed people’s faith in politics The events that led to Donald Trump’s election started in England in 1975. At a meeting a few months after Margaret Thatcher became leader of the Conservative party, one of her colleagues, or so the story goes, was explaining […]
Prof Michael BrennerProfessor of International Affairs at the University of Pittsburgh, USAHonourary International Advisor, Ground Report India At this moment of unprecedented upheaval, it is striking that some things never change. We are being subject to a tidal wave of interpretation and speculation as to what a Trump administration means for American foreign relations in […]
Visitors: 282 Anupama identifies herself as a young, energetic, thoughtful and sensitive human being before anything else. An author, a content strategist, a communications expert, a ghost writer, a blogger, a devil’s advocate and a woman are some other hats she wears. She writes books on controversial subjects, expresses her opinions and thoughts vocally and […]
Visitors: 460 Dr. D. Aurobinda Mahapatra Director, Mahatma Gandhi Center for Non-Violence, Human Rights and World Peace Hindu University of America, 5200 Vineland Road, Orlando, FL 32811 The Mahatma Gandhi Center for Non-Violence, Human Rights and World Peace at the Hindu University of America, Orlando, USA, organized a two-day international conference on November 3 and […]
Visitors: 378To The Chairman National Human Rights Commission Manav Adhikar Bhawan Block-C, GPO Complex, INA New Delhi – 110023 Respected Sir, I want to draw your attention on the matter of continuous arrest, detention and subsequent judicial remand of two families Bangladeshi women and children. The detention of those women with children discloses a shocking […]
Visitors: 530ERIC A. HOWALD Managing Editor, Keizertimes, USA Dr. Pritam Rohila thinks a lot about peace, mostly because he’s witnessed the horrors conflict conjures. Pritam was born in Rupar, India, when it was still ruled by British colonialists. When he was 11 years old, Britain gave up control over the land, but not before dividing […]
Visitors: 344The demonetization of high value currency by the Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has certainly rekindled hope amongst Indians that Modi government would take earnest steps to root out corruption in India. People’s support : While the demonetization announcement has created some genuine temporary problems for the common man , particularly daily wage earners, […]