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New leader of the UK Labour Party, Jeremy Corbyn: “We are one world”

Winning in the first round of vote counting by a margin of 40% over the closest of the three rival candidates, Jeremy Corbyn, anti-war, anti-austerity and anti-nuclear weapons campaigner becomes the new leader of the UK Labour Party. Over 400,000…

Assam has lost an honest and courageous journalist

He was an honest, brave and impartial journalist, who raised voice relentlessly against the separatist militants of trouble-torn northeast India. Moreover he was also vocal for the basic minimum rights of journalists and other media employees of Assam. Hiten Mahanta,…

Elites want more refugees: Why?

There is much being written about the refugee crisis in Europe at the moment but none of what I have read explains why the problem is occurring and what will need to be done for the problem to be addressed.…

Europe’s citizens show their support for the plight of refugees

Following the harrowing TV images of thousands of refugees fleeing to Europe away from their devastated homelands, the horrifying images of boats sinking in the Mediterranean, a vehicle full of dead corpses on an Austrian motorway and a tragic boy…

Miss Hong Kong: “No place to sleep, how can you dream?”

That’s correct, but the issue here was not the refugees from the Middle East and Africa, it was young people in Hong Kong and the speaker, newly voted into the role of Miss Hong Kong of 2015, Louisa Mak Ming-sze. Her…

Japanese opposition parties and people protest in Tokyo

August 30, 2015 in the afternoon, Tokyo Japan, 120,000 people held a protest rally against the security bill. Shouting slogans: “fascists intolerable!” “Abe step down!” “Abandon Security Act!” This was the largest rally held in Japan recently, with the largest…

Greece in debt: a walled-in space

Greece is the most beautiful country in the world – if you are on holiday! Because, daily life gets harder and harder for most of the inhabitants, especially the most vulnerable ones. Greek governments having violated citizens’ human rights are…

UN Forum on The Culture of Peace to Include the Role of Media

Read the headlines on any given day, and it’s easy to assume that people are driven by conflict and greed. But are we getting the whole—or even the true—story? Michael Nagler, a noted peace scholar and award-winning author, will discuss…

Harpreet Toor on Face 2 Face

This week’s show starts with our friend, singer and guitarist Gabriella Callender, and continues with Harpreet Singh Toor to discuss the situation of the Sikh community in New York City.

NATO must be consigned to the rubbish heap of history

During the weekend conference on NATO and Russia in the Baltic Area organised by the No to War, No to NATO campaign, Reiner Brown, co-President of the International Peace Bureau participated in a panel meeting on the subject of Common…

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