[pullquote align=”normal” cite=”an excerpt from an appendix on the 2017 Nobel Peace Prize”]The International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, abbreviated ICAN, is a coalition of 468 NGO’s in 101 countries. The purpose of ICAN is to change the focus in the disarmament debate to “the the humanitarian threat posed by nuclear weapons, drawing attention to […]
Robert J. Burrowes PhDHonourary Editor, Ground Report India In his remarks on the recent International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women – see ‘Violence Against Women is Fundamentally About Power’ – United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres inadvertantly demonstrated why well-meaning efforts being undertaken globally to reduce violence against women fail to make any progress […]
Visitors: 532Several years ago in Cameroon, a country in West Africa, a Western Black Rhinoceros was killed. It was the last of its kind on Earth. Hence, the Western Black Rhinoceros, the largest subspecies of rhinoceros which had lived for millions of years and was the second largest land mammal on Earth, no longer exists. […]
Visitors: 700[thrive_text_block color=”light” headline=”(Including Autism Spectrum Disorder, ADHD, Learning Disorders, Epilepsy, Asthma, Diabetes, Autoimmune Disorders, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, and many other chronic illnesses that affect fully-vaccinated American children)”] [/thrive_text_block] The epidemic of chronic disorders among US children, now reported to represent well over 1/3 of fully-vaccinated children in America is likely iatrogenic (ie, physician-caused, prescription […]
Visitors: 640[thrive_text_block color=”light” headline=”What an extraordinary dereliction of duty that our politicians leave headteachers to fix a public health crisis”] [/thrive_text_block] Deregulation, the government and many newspapers assure us, saves money and time and reduces frustration. That’s the theory. But, as I see every day, it doesn’t quite work like this. My youngest daughter’s school […]
Visitors: 549On Friday 24 November 2017, an attack by some 30 men on a mosque at Bir al-Ald in the Sinai Peninsula left 305 dead among them women and children. 128 were wounded. Some of the wounded may not survive. The Sinai Peninsula has been an area of instability and lawlessness at least since 2013 […]
Visitors: 605Rene Wadlow How many victims of silence there are, and at what cost! Silence has its laws and its demands… Silence demands that its enemies disappear suddenly and without a trace. Silence prefers that no voice of complaint or protest or indignation disturb its calm. And when such a voice is heard, silence strikes […]
Visitors: 618[thrive_text_block color=”note” headline=”Growth must go on – it’s the political imperative everywhere, and it’s destroying the Earth. But there’s no way of greening it, so we need a new system”] [/thrive_text_block] Everyone wants everything – how is that going to work? The promise of economic growth is that the poor can live like the […]
Visitors: 666Ajay Ghosh [thrive_text_block color=”light” headline=”The groundbreaking Summit from December 28-31, 2017 will discuss ways to bring the most innovative, efficient and cost-effective healthcare solutions for India”] [/thrive_text_block] New York, NY: November 20, 2017: The 11th annual Global Healthcare Summit (GHS) organized by the Association of American Physicians of Indian Origin (AAPI) in collaboration with the […]
Visitors: 554Rene Wadlow On 13 November, the US House of Representatives passed a resolution, 366 to 30 opposed, on the armed conflict in Yemen expressing the urgent need for a political solution and denouncing “ the conduct of activities in Yemen and areas affected by the conflict that are, directly or indirectly inconsistent with the […]
Visitors: 607[thrive_text_block color=”light” headline=”The way discredited stories spread after a chemical weapons massacre in Syria should be a matter of serious concern”] [/thrive_text_block] What do we believe? This is the crucial democratic question. Without informed choice, democracy is meaningless. This is why dictators and billionaires invest so heavily in fake news. Our only defence is […]
Robert J. Burrowes PhDHonourary Editor, Ground Report IndiaIn a recent incident in the United States, yet another unarmed man was shot dead by police after opening his front door in response to their knock. The police were going to serve an arrest warrant on a domestic violence suspect – the man’s neighbour – but went […]
Visitors: 658Ajay Ghosh Chief Editor, The Universal News Network, www.theunn.com Media Coordinator, American Association of Physicians of Indian Origin (AAPI) (New York, NY: November 4, 2017) Over 3/4th of Veterans receiving care in VA facilities are considered to be overweight or obese and struggling with weight related issues. The epidemic of obesity across our country has adverse […]
Visitors: 638[thrive_text_block color=”light” headline=”Look to Sheffield: this is how state and corporate power subverts democracy”] [/thrive_text_block] One of neoliberalism’s promises was that it would free us from bureaucracy. By rolling back the state, it would vanquish the stifling power of officialdom, granting us unprecedented freedom and opportunity. This promise runs through the works of Friedrich Hayek and […]
Visitors: 584 [thrive_text_block color=”light” headline=”The rupture of 2008 presents a chance to throw out our iniquitous system that busts the planet – here are some ideas”] [/thrive_text_block] We are still living in the long 20th century. We are stuck with its redundant technologies: the internal combustion engine, thermal power plants, factory farms. We are stuck […]
Visitors: 468 [thrive_text_block color=”light” headline=”The suffering inherent in mass meat production can’t be justified. And as the artificial meat industry grows, the last argument for farming animals has now collapsed”] [/thrive_text_block] What will future generations, looking back on our age, see as its monstrosities? We think of slavery, the subjugation of women, judicial torture, the […]
Vivek Umrao Glendenning “Samajik Yayavar” I believe, we need to think about the contents and the goal of the education at each level, primary to higher to research education. We need to redesign our universities, their purpose and the content of the education. At every level, the education must lead towards actual sustainability, peace and […]
Robert J. Burrowes PhDHonourary Editor, Ground Report India Around the world activists who are strategic thinkers face a daunting challenge to effectively tackle the multitude of violent conflicts, including the threat of human extinction, confronting human society in the early 21st century. I wrote that ‘activists who are strategic thinkers face a daunting challenge’ because there is […]
Portrait of India Prime Minister Mrs Indira Gandhi, 1966.Indira Gandhi, prime minister of India for sixteen years, was as charismatic as she was controversialat once admired and criticized for her political judgements and actions. Yet beyond such debate, what has not been fully understood is her life-long communion with nature and how that defined her […]
Chaitanya Davé Now a days, one hears so much noise in American media about Russia spying on and trying to influence US elections of November, 2016. American politicians of both the parties are vociferously complaining about it and condemning Russia for her nefarious behavior of meddling in America’s elections. President Obama even kicked out several Russians […]
Visitors: 819Gary G. Kohls, MD I recently went to a theater production of George Orwell’s ”1984” and also recently viewed the Ken Burns 10 episode documentary “The Vietnam War” on PBS. Although the Burns documentary was flawed in many respects, it was still well worth watching. I highly recommend that everybody watch it. It happens […]
Visitors: 817Robert J. Burrowes In Las Vegas on 1 October 2017, it appears that one man (although it might have been more) killed 59 people and shot and injured another 241 (with almost 300 more injured while fleeing). The incident got a lot of publicity, partly because the man managed to kill more people than […]
Visitors: 999Robert J. Burrowes Gandhi Jayanti – 2 October, the date of Mohandas K. Gandhi’s birth in 1869 and the International Day of Nonviolence – offers an opportunity to reflect on human violence and to ponder ways to end it. There may be a fast way to end human violence but, if there is, Gandhi […]
Visitors: 453Robert J. Burrowes For those of us committed to systematically reducing and, one day, ending human violence, it is vital to understand what is causing and driving it so that effective strategies can be developed for dealing with violence in its myriad contexts. For an understanding of the fundamental cause of violence, see ‘Why […]
Chaitanya Davé Majority of Americans want “Single Payer Healthcare System” or free healthcare but our elected representatives won’t go for it. Most Americans want stricter gun control laws. But our politicians controlled by The National Rifle Association and other die-hard gun lovers, won’t allow it to happen. Fair minded and decent, most Americans prefer minimum wages raised to […]
