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Silo a Spiritual Path wins Platinum Award at Spotlight Documentary Film Festival, Atlanta, Georgia USA The award winning film, Silo a Spiritual Path (Hollywood International Independent Documentary Award of Excellence) has won a Platinum award at the Spotlight Documentary Film…

The Myth of Just Deserts In the USA things have not changed a bit since the following appeared on Rick Cooley’s Blog, September 1, 2013: Attacks on the social safety net, workers’ rights, raising the minimum wage and basically anything aimed at…

Rabbi Lerner’s Introduction to Brexit – Tikkun and the Network of Spiritual Progressives  The vote by a majority in the UK to exit from the European Union is actually a cry of pain by the working people of Britain, and a…

  This Fourth of July, U.S. war makers will be drinking fermented grain, grilling dead flesh, traumatizing veterans with colorful explosions, and thanking their lucky stars and campaign contributors that they don’t live in rotten old England. And I don’t…

By Matt Meyer for Waging Nonviolence The opening annual hearings of the U.N. Special Committee on Decolonization, or the Committee of 24, have long been a time of conflicting viewpoints regarding the archipelago island’s status. This year, however, the peoples…

Dear Friends, Against a backdrop of alarming new developments in nuclear weapons modernization, led by the United States and Russia, I and four other former Canadian Ambassadors for Disarmament, issued an urgent call for the Justin Trudeau government to take…

The historic sit-in in the House is impressive to behold, but the two proposals the Democrats are demanding a vote on are very problematic by Phyllis Bennie for Common Dreams It was almost midnight when I found myself glued to…

In a major victory for environmentalists, California is going nuclear-free, ending atomic energy’s more than half-century history in the state. On Tuesday, one of the state’s largest utilities agreed to a proposal endorsed by environmental groups and labor unions to…

I have recently returned from a trip to Greenland where I participated in a one-day forum on Uranium Mining in Narsaq, South Greenland, on June 11, 2016.  There were many members of parliament and elected members of town councils in…

On this show we discussed with Oto Alves Da Silva, about his worked with Unaccompanied Alien Children (UAC) as a legal aid worker in Rio Grande Valley in South Texas in the U.S.