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The discussion during our recent Humanity for Peace Coalition meeting offered very interesting and thought-out interventions, including the Ten Principles proposal by Helga Zepp-LaRouche and the Schiller Institute which is a great platform to lay out a new direction for our planet. The current crisis is going much deeper than…

At this critical moment in human history, a new paper on multilevel cultural evolution shows how looking at our cultural evolutionary origins might help us improve society at many levels. By April M. Short Ours is a critical time in…

No food should be worth the amount of suffering experienced by sentient animals trapped in our food system. By Reynard Loki The facts are clear and they are shocking: Factory farming is unhealthy for consumers, dangerous for workers, and devastating…

Kai Bird, co-author of American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer, the Pulitzer Prize-winning book on which Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer movie is based, issued the following statement endorsing a bill by Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), the…

The United States dreams of a unipolar world and of global hegemony. It intervenes everywhere to support dictatorships, provoke coups d’état, encourage rebellions and finance opposition. Let’s start by recalling some of their major feats since the end of the…

A majority of Americans would be against sending more funding to support Ukraine in its war against Russia, according to a poll conducted by CNN in July of this year. In fact, 55% of those interviewed believe that Congress should…

The theme of this year’s convention is Choose Peace: Stand Up! Speak Out! Registration Keynote Speakers Clare Daly (MEP) Irish politician who has been a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from Ireland for the Dublin constituency since July 2019. Jeffrey…

The excellent photographs that Jeff McCurry has taken of nature and its living beings are extraordinary and his existence is full of that wonderful contact with Mother Earth, showing us in all its splendour, the colourfulness of life. His sensitivity…

Throughout three days of virtual panels, training, and discussion sessions, #NoWar2023 will make the case for the efficacy of nonviolent resistance as a tool for conflict resolution, highlighting case studies from around the world of unarmed civilian based defense against…

On Tuesday, August 8th,  to honor the memory of those who lost their lives to the atomic bombings on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, a coalition of citizens and peace activists gathered in front of the Japan Consulate General to drop an…