Visitors: 4,051Ajay Ghosh [themify_hr color=”red”] [themify_quote]CHICAGO, IL, USA[/themify_quote] “The American Association of Physicians of Indian Origin is pleased to support the nomination of Dr. Jerome Adams for United States Surgeon General, currently serving as Indiana Health Commissioner with a proven leadership record with a steadfast dedication to improving the lives of the communities around him,” […]
Visitors: 521Mooloolaba, Q’land, AUSTRALIA, A pivotal meeting on South Pacific Albacore opened in Australia today with Pacific officials taking a moment of silence to reflect on another issue close to their hearts: Observer safety. This follows recent confirmation that another Pacific fisheries observer has gone missing at sea. Papua New Guinea’s James Junior Numbaru, a […]
Visitors: 345 [themify_quote]Shabnam Hashmi returned the National Minority Rights Award-2008 on 27th June 2017 to National Commission for Minorities, NCM. [/themify_quote] Shabnam Hashmi’s statement: I return today the National Minority Rights Award conferred on me in 2008 by the National Commission for Minorities. I am returning it in the memory of the innumerable innocent victims […]
Visitors: 686Prof. Klaus Schlichtmann [themify_hr color=”red”] [themify_box] The Center for Global Nonkilling The mission of the Center for Global Nonkilling is to promote change toward the measurable goal of a killing-free world by means open to infinite human creativity. The goal can be reached by globally advancing nonkilling knowledge and skills, incorporating them into education […]
Visitors: 554 Gary G. Kohls, MD [themify_quote]Definitions below have been obtained from a variety of open-source online sites – and then edited to fit[/themify_quote] Big Pharma is the pejorative term given to the vast number of multinational (global) pharmaceutical corporations. It takes no Hippocratic Oath, does not insist that its sycophants give fully informed consent […]
Visitors: 591Gary G. Kohls, MD Over the 40 plus years that I was a family practitioner and teacher (the English word “doctor” derives from the Latin verb docere [do-ke-re] which means “to teach”), I have tried to fulfill what I have regarded as my solemn professional duty to warn my patients (and anybody else who would listen) […]
Visitors: 4,172 Nuclear Age Peace Foundation We have exciting news! On June 15, more than 130 nations will re-convene at the United Nations for the final session of negotiations on a treaty to ban nuclear weapons. Sign this petition today to tell the President of the UN conference, Ambassador Elayne Whyte Gomez of Costa Rica, […]
Visitors: 424Report on Round Table Discussion on “Future of Democracy, Social Justice and Secularism in India” Introduction The Round Table Discussion on Future of Democracy, Social Justice and Secularism in India, was organized by Centre for Study of Society and Secularism (CSSS), Mumbai, on 28th May at GD Parikh Hall, University of Mumbai, Santacruz, Mumbai. […]
Visitors: 498Dr Ram Puniyani On May 26, 2017, the Modi Government completed three years in office. Various programmes such as the Modi fest were organised at various places and there are plans to celebrate them in different cities across the country. The underlying message of these programmes is that Modi government has done remarkable work […]
Visitors: 588Gary G. Kohls, MD Although I have just been doing my scholarly, unbiased, science-based duty to warn (that is in direct opposition to the highly biased, indeed perverted, corporate “science” of Big Pharma that we all know is really in the game just because of the money), I have just received my first “death […]
Visitors: 558(June 4, 2017)- The Pacific Islands Forum reaffirms its commitment to the Paris Agreement on climate change and commends all countries that have recently reiterated their support. The statement by the Pacific Islands Forum comes in the wake of the United States of America’s (USA) withdrawal from the Paris Agreement. “Being some of the […]
Visitors: 443Colin Beavan [themify_hr color=”red”] [themify_quote]There are so many ways we can slow and stop the burning of fossil fuels in the United States. But we need to get to work.[/themify_quote] I’m in Hungary, tired and jetlagged, and pissed off as hell about President Trump’s decision to withdraw from the Paris climate accord. I’m about […]
Visitors: 571 Stephen Miller [themify_quote]American cities have already spent billions of dollars on climate action and are committed to environmental goals that go beyond the Paris accord.[/themify_quote] With or without President Donald Trump, the United States will work to address climate change. Not because of the Paris agreement, which is nonbinding. Not because backing out […]
Visitors: 591Rene Wadlow [themify_quote]29 May has been set by the U.N. General Assembly as U.N. Peacekeepers day to pay tribute to all the men and women who have served and continue to serve in U.N. peacekeeping operations for their high level of professionalism, dedication and courage. Currently, there are some 113,000 military, police, and civilian […]
Visitors: 579Dr Ron Paul (RPI)- When we think about terrorism we most often think about the horrors of a Manchester-like attack, where a radicalized suicide bomber went into a concert hall and killed dozens of innocent civilians. It was an inexcusable act of savagery and it certainly did terrorize the population. What is less considered are […]
Visitors: 519 Mr Rahul Pandit, President of Swarna Bharat Party, India’s only liberal party, said that tuberculosis is a totally preventable Third World disease. It is basically a disease of acute misgovernance. It is a great shame that five lakh Indians die from this preventable disease each year. And yet the government is doing nothing […]
Visitors: 511Robert J. Burrowes One inevitable outcome of the phenomenal violence we all suffer as children is that most of us live in a state of delusion throughout our lives. This makes it extraordinarily difficult for accurate information, including vital information about the endangered state of our world and how to respond appropriately, to penetrate […]
Visitors: 731Baher Kamal Asia is home to the largest number of indigenous peoples on Earth, with an estimated 260 million of a total of 370 million original inhabitants worldwide. In spite of their huge number-equaling half of the combined population of Europe– they are often victims of discrimination and denial of their rights. With its […]
Visitors: 542 Rene Wadlow As Life and Nature are not great with reference to the Present only, but greater still from what is yet to come, out of that formula for Thee I sing. – Walt Whitman [themify_quote]Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) whose birth anniversary we mark on 25 May, stressed the need for thinking and […]
Visitors: 362 While addressing the farewell Programme of the second batch of 43 social work professionals from NEISSR, Dr. Sanjay Kumar Chhabra, the Principal of Unity College, Dimapur said that we need more and more social entrepreneurs to transform the society. As the Chief Guest of the function he appreciated the initiative of the Catholic […]
Visitors: 518Rene Wadlow The way in which a society treats its children reflects not only its qualities of compassion and protective caring but also its sense of justice, its commitment to the future and its urge to better the human condition for coming generations. As the World Declaration on the Survival, Protection and Development of […]