Reports
Factory Outlet : In an age of robots, schools are teaching our children to be redundant
Visitors: 587George 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 We […]
AAPI’s 35th annual convention planned at Harrah’s Resort in Atlantic City, June 21-25, 2017
Visitors: 338New York, “It’s very great joy that I want to invite you all to come and be part of the 35th annual American Association of Physicians of Indian Origin (AAPI) Convention 2017 to be held at brand new state of the art Convention Centre, totaling an area of about 225,000 square feet the prestigious […]
AAPI’s 35th annual convention planned at Harrah’s Resort in Atlantic City, June 21-25, 2017
Visitors: 531New York, “It’s very great joy that I want to invite you all to come and be part of the 35th annual American Association of Physicians of Indian Origin (AAPI) Convention 2017 to be held at brand new state of the art Convention Centre, totaling an area of about 225,000 square feet the prestigious […]
Restoring Trust in Politics, Institutions Key to Resolving Global Conflicts, Secretary-General Tells World Government Summit
Visitors: 479Following 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 governance […]
Restoring Trust in Politics, Institutions Key to Resolving Global Conflicts, Secretary-General Tells World Government Summit
Visitors: 476Following 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 governance […]
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SRI AUROBINDO – HINDU UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA
Visitors: 587RELEVANCE OF SRI AUROBINDO AND THE GRAND VISIONS OF THE ANCIENT INDIAN WISDOM Thursday and Friday, May 4 – 5, 2017 at the Mahatma Gandhi Center for Non-Violence, Human Rights and World Peace at Hindu University of America, Orlando, FL, USA Indian philosopher, poet, mystic and Yogi, Sri Aurobindo (1872-1950), argued that human society has […]
Swarna Bharat Party’s new President, Rahul Pandit, reaffirms his commitment to liberty
Visitors: 385Swarna Bharat Party, India’s only liberal party, is delighted to announce that its reconstituted National Executive now largely comprises members elected from the grassroots. This is part of SBP’s intention to move to a comprehensive internal democratic system as soon as it becomes practical to do so. SBP’s new National Executive has elected a […]
Swarna Bharat Party’s new President, Rahul Pandit, reaffirms his commitment to liberty
Visitors: 317Swarna Bharat Party, India’s only liberal party, is delighted to announce that its reconstituted National Executive now largely comprises members elected from the grassroots. This is part of SBP’s intention to move to a comprehensive internal democratic system as soon as it becomes practical to do so. SBP’s new National Executive has elected a […]
Nonviolent Economy
Visitors: 650Prof 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 have […]
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: 469George 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 We […]
UNIVERSAL BASIC INCOME, UBI, SCHEME – Bonfire of the Subsidies
Visitors: 706 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 […]
In Pursuit of Peace: The Cosmic Nature of Our Inner and Outer Journey
Visitors: 559Anthony J. Marsella, Ph.D. Marsella, A.J. (2011), The Journal of Oriental Studies, 21, 148-163 Abstract “Fission” and “fusion” are the most basic principles used to explain the creation and evolution of our universe. From that moment—13.7 billion years ago—when all existing matter, particles, and energy exploded across time and space, “fission” and “fusion” have […]
In Pursuit of Peace: The Cosmic Nature of Our Inner and Outer Journey
Visitors: 916Anthony J. Marsella, Ph.D. Marsella, A.J. (2011), The Journal of Oriental Studies, 21, 148-163 Abstract “Fission” and “fusion” are the most basic principles used to explain the creation and evolution of our universe. From that moment—13.7 billion years ago—when all existing matter, particles, and energy exploded across time and space, “fission” and “fusion” have […]
Duty to Warn : Xenophobia, the Know Nothing Party of the 1850s and the Trump/Pence NeoFascist Republican Agenda for 2017
Visitors: 525Dr. 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 International […]
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Why Do People Revolt?
Visitors: 271Vithal Rajan, Ph.D. [L.S.E.], worked as a mediator for the church in Belfast; as faculty at The School of Peace Studies, University of Bradford, and as Executive Director, the Right Livelihood Award Foundation. He has founded several Indian NGOs, is an Officer of the Order of Canada, and a member of the TRANSCEND Network […]
Why Do People Revolt?
Visitors: 536Vithal Rajan, Ph.D. [L.S.E.], worked as a mediator for the church in Belfast; as faculty at The School of Peace Studies, University of Bradford, and as Executive Director, the Right Livelihood Award Foundation. He has founded several Indian NGOs, is an Officer of the Order of Canada, and a member of the TRANSCEND Network […]
Roles of Civil Society in Nepal’s Development
Visitors: 436Nepali nagrik samaj or civil society is getting high up in the last two and half decades or so in many aspects like raising awareness of the people, supporting democratic movement/s, working as development partners in community development and the like. Although it is not easy to ‘characterize’ (post)modern civil society that encompasses unrestrained […]
Roles of Civil Society in Nepal’s Development
Visitors: 707Nepali nagrik samaj or civil society is getting high up in the last two and half decades or so in many aspects like raising awareness of the people, supporting democratic movement/s, working as development partners in community development and the like. Although it is not easy to ‘characterize’ (post)modern civil society that encompasses unrestrained […]
The Trump Presidency : The First Week
Visitors: 419Prof 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 have […]
Putting the Last First
Visitors: 225Moin 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. Handing the Poor the Reins of Development 29 Jan 2017 – The priorities of village people are constantly undergoing changes. These are, […]
Putting the Last First
Visitors: 260Moin 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. Handing the Poor the Reins of Development 29 Jan 2017 – The priorities of village people are constantly undergoing changes. These are, […]