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Be Part of a Step Toward a Peaceful Future-No Nuclear Weapons August 6th from 12:00 PM -8:00 PM Kingston Point Beach 53 Delaware Ave, Kingston, NY 12401 We are going to celebrate our 13th annual Bon-odori Dance, Festival for Peace…

As Pressenza readers will know by now, 2 years ago we decided to systematise our style of journalism, explaining the ideologial foundations of our work and the principles and tools that guide our original content and the selection of articles…

Countries across Africa recently took a major step towards economic independence from the West by launching an insurance system that will allow them to conduct inter-state trade without the involvement of the US dollar or other Western currencies. This could…

Been hearing about the Oppenheimer movie? Oscar buzz! Barbenheimer! Cillian Murphy’s alarmingly blue eyeballs! In all the hoo-hah, two crucial things are missing. We have to fully grasp the humanitarian consequences of nuclear weapons: The movie offers only the tiniest…

After the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration confirmed that last month was the hottest June on record, a climate expert at NASA is now predicting that July could be Earth’s hottest month on record. By Paige Bennett Gavin Schmidt, director of…

U.S. anti-war organizations will hold a rally on July 22 at 11 am at the Scranton (PA) Army Ammunition Plant to oppose sending cluster bombs, and all weapons, into the Ukraine War. We urge all who oppose the U.S. sending…

Hayao Miyazaki’s last movie How Do You Live? Open first in Japanese theatres on July 14th of 2023, after a resounding promotional silence that entailed the absence of a trailer, a voice cast list, or any other form of traditional…

From January to June of this year — the first six months of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s presidential term — deforestation in Brazil’s Amazon has fallen 33.6 percent, new government satellite data shows, as The Associated Press reported. By Cristen Hemingway Jaynes Lula’s stricter…

Both U.S. President Joe Biden and, top Republican Senator Mitch McConnell said on Friday that the U.S. has destroyed the last of its declared chemical weapons stockpile of chemical weapons, completing a global effort set in 1997 to eliminate all…

The Cluster Munition Coalition (CMC) is appalled by the United States’ plans to transfer banned cluster munitions to Ukraine, as reported today in the New York Times. The transfer of the weapon, prohibited under the 2008 Convention on Cluster Munitions, follows repeated…