Cover Reports
What’s Really Happening in Syria
Visitors: 302 [themify_quote]A Consumer Fraud Lawyer’s mini Primer[/themify_quote] The U.S./NATO line 5 Feb 2017 If you try to follow events in the mainstream media, you may have noticed that they routinely refer to Syrian President Bashar al Assad as a “brutal dictator”. Assad is supposed to have responded to peaceful protests with repressive violence and […]
An Interview With Anand Patwardhan :: Gandhi and Ambedkar as liberation theologists
Visitors: 477 For over 40 years Anand Patwardhan’s documentary films have stood for freedom of expression. He faced censorship on numerous occasions, took the government to court, and won each time. Anand is not just a filmmaker but an activist in the cause of Indian democracy, clearly under threat today. In this candid conversation with […]
Violence against Women: Positive Peace
Visitors: 290 L’Alfàs del Pi, Spain Female emancipation, patriarchic family decline and femicide are with us, the femicide according to UN[i] particularly in Guatemala, Mexico and Australia-Canada-South Africa-USA. And here in Spain women are also killed by (ex)husbands and (ex)lovers: 44 by “their” men in 2016, 60 in 2015[ii], first two months of 2017 maybe […]
World Politics-Economics Right Now
Visitors: 241 The Cold War ended by an agreement that the USSR leaves Eastern Europe and the USA does not enter the area. What the USA did is treason, like Sykes-Picot. NATO expanded from 16 to 28: Bill Clinton added Poland, Czech Republic and Hungary; George W. Bush the Baltic Slovakia, Slovenia, Romania and Bulgaria; […]
Gandhi’s Strategy for Success — Use More Than One Strategy
Visitors: 300 At the end of 1930, India was experiencing disruption on a scale not seen in nearly three quarters of a century — and it was witnessing a level of social movement participation that organizers who challenge undemocratic regimes usually only dream of achieving. A campaign of mass non-cooperation against imperial rule had […]
The “Karma Year” and Current Conflicts :: An Unstable World: Analysis, Forecasting, Solutions
Visitors: 271 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 […]
BUDGET 2017–18: IS IT INDEED A PRO-FARMER BUDGET?
Visitors: 142 Neeraj Jain Lokayat, Pune [themify_hr color=”red” border_width=”5px”] It is now well established that demonetisation has had a crippling impact on the Indian economy, and in particular, has sent the informal sector into a coma. The informal sector consists of small scale manufacturing, most of the construction industry, perhaps three quarters of the remainder […]
BUDGET 2017–18: IS IT INDEED A PRO-FARMER BUDGET?
Visitors: 231 Neeraj Jain Lokayat, Pune [themify_hr color=”red” border_width=”5px”] It is now well established that demonetisation has had a crippling impact on the Indian economy, and in particular, has sent the informal sector into a coma. The informal sector consists of small scale manufacturing, most of the construction industry, perhaps three quarters of the remainder […]
Factory Outlet : In an age of robots, schools are teaching our children to be redundant
Visitors: 352 George Monbiot, PhD Studied in Oxford University, columnist with The Guardian newspaper, also the author of the bestselling books The Age of Consent: A Manifesto for a New World Order and Captive State: The Corporate Takeover of Britain, as well as the investigative travel books Poisoned Arrows, Amazon Watershed, No Man’s Land, How Did […]
Restoring Trust in Politics, Institutions Key to Resolving Global Conflicts, Secretary-General Tells World Government Summit
Visitors: 246 Following are UN Secretary-General António Guterres’s remarks to the World Government Summit and the subsequent question-and-answer session, in Dubai: It’s an enormous pleasure and an enormous honour to be here. I am very grateful to your Highness [Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al Maktoum] for your very kind invitation. If one looks at today’s […]
Restoring Trust in Politics, Institutions Key to Resolving Global Conflicts, Secretary-General Tells World Government Summit
Visitors: 270 Following are UN Secretary-General António Guterres’s remarks to the World Government Summit and the subsequent question-and-answer session, in Dubai: It’s an enormous pleasure and an enormous honour to be here. I am very grateful to your Highness [Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al Maktoum] for your very kind invitation. If one looks at today’s […]
Nonviolent Economy
Visitors: 388 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 […]
The Invention of Zero: How Ancient Mesopotamia Created the Mathematical Concept of Nought and Ancient India Gave it Symbolic Form
Maria Popova“If you look at zero you see nothing; but look through it and you will see the world.”If the ancient Arab world had closed its gates to foreign travelers, we would have no medicine, no astronomy, and no mathematics — at least not as we know them today. Central to humanity’s quest to grasp the […]
All Together Now : This is how to stop demagogues and extremists: rebuild community
Visitors: 229 George Monbiot, PhD Studied in Oxford University, columnist with The Guardian newspaper, also the author of the bestselling books The Age of Consent: A Manifesto for a New World Order and Captive State: The Corporate Takeover of Britain, as well as the investigative travel books Poisoned Arrows, Amazon Watershed, No Man’s Land, How Did […]
UNIVERSAL BASIC INCOME, UBI, SCHEME – Bonfire of the Subsidies
Visitors: 373 HISTORICAL BACKGROUND: Basic income (also called Unconditional Basic Income, Citizen’s Income, Basic Income Guarantee, Universal Basic Income or Universal Demogrant) is a form of social security in which all citizens or residents of a country regularly receive an unconditional sum of money, either from a government or some other public institution, in addition […]
Duty to Warn : Xenophobia, the Know Nothing Party of the 1850s and the Trump/Pence NeoFascist Republican Agenda for 2017
Visitors: 311 Dr. Gary G. Kohls, MD is a retired physician who practiced holistic, non-drug, mental health care for the last decade of his forty year family practice career. He is a contributor to and an endorser of the efforts of the Citizens Commission on Human Rights and was a member of MindFreedom International, the […]
The Trump Presidency : The First Week
Visitors: 205 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 […]
Dark Arts: How corporate dark money network is taking power on both sides of the Atlantic
Visitors: 455 George Monbiot, PhD Studied in Oxford University, columnist with The Guardian newspaper, also the author of the bestselling books The Age of Consent: A Manifesto for a New World Order and Captive State: The Corporate Takeover of Britain, as well as the investigative travel books Poisoned Arrows, Amazon Watershed, No Man’s Land, How Did […]
All about the base : Our democracies are broken, debased and distrusted. Here are some ideas for restoring them
Visitors: 561 George Monbiot, PhD Studied in Oxford University, columnist with The Guardian newspaper, also the author of the bestselling books The Age of Consent: A Manifesto for a New World Order and Captive State: The Corporate Takeover of Britain, as well as the investigative travel books Poisoned Arrows, Amazon Watershed, No Man’s Land, How Did […]