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Remarks upon acceptance of Real Nobel Peace Prize
David Swanson accepting the first annual Real Nobel Peace Prize, awarded by the Lay Down Your Arms Foundation. It’s wonderful to be here with many of you whose work I’ve known but whom I’ve rarely if ever been with in…
Harvest Season in the West Bank… but not for all
It’s finally harvest season here in Israel and Palestine. The olives are ripe for picking, and families prepare to visit their groves to collect their fruits to sell or press into oil, soap or other natural products that date back…
Hoekstra told not to bring fossil fuel lobby to COP29
As the EU’s climate commissioner Wopke Hoekstra prepares for his hearing in the European Parliament to reprise his role for the next five years, more than a hundred civil society organisations have written to ask him not to bring fossil…
Italian MEP Danilo Della Valle: The European left has forgotten the Ukrainians who are victims of war
There is a growing front in the European Parliament that fears an overly militarised Europe. MEP Danilo Della Valle (‘The Left’) has taken the initiative to ask MEPs to set up an intergroup for peace in Brussels to promote a…
Interview with German MEP Sebastian Everding: Unlimited military support for Ukraine means more suffering
According to the human rights activist and German MEP, the European Parliament is now a fragmented institution where more than half of the MEPs do not share the social, environmental and economic initiatives aimed at ending the war. TASS: Interview…
Moldova’s Razor-Thin Vote at the Crossroads Between East and West
Polling stations across Moldova and abroad have just closed in a pivotal twin election, which could define the country’s future direction. In two crucial votes – the presidential election and a referendum on EU accession – Moldovans were asked to…
Nuclear War Games: Finland’s Controversial Role in NATO’s Tactical Exercises
Tämän artikkelin suomenkielinen versio on esittelyvideon alla. This article examines the content of the discussion session on Finland’s nuclear weapons policy organized by the Nuclear Monitoring Group, Freedom to Choose Otherwise Civic Movement and Peace Union of Finland in Helsinki…
From Israeli-Palestinian pacifism an exciting injection of hope
They were on the road for an entire day because of flights blocked by Amman and Tel Aviv due to the war now raging in Lebanon as well as in Gaza. A very difficult journey that saw them land at…
Scientists Successfully Breed Adult Corals to Improve Heat Tolerance
Coral reefs throughout the world have suffered immensely from global heating due to human-caused climate change. Australia’s Great Barrier Reef — the largest coral reef system in the world — has experienced four mass bleaching events in seven years, leading to die-offs in up to half of…
Open letter from Brian Eno and Yanis Varoufakis to the judges of the International Criminal Court
On October 7, Brian Eno and Yanis Varoufakis appealed to the International Criminal Court to do its duty. To uphold international law by prosecuting self-evident war crimes in Israel-Palestine, lest genocide becomes normalised across the world. Dear judges of the…
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