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I’m old enough to remember when you couldn’t do a speaking event related to war and peace without being asked numerous reasonable and not so reasonable questions about 9/11 (each accompanied by a stack of DVDs and flyers presented to…

Managing solar radiation through technology is possible, but there are ethical and political concerns. By Daniel Ross Desperate times call for desperate measures, as the saying goes. As scientists, policymakers and politicians keep one increasingly startled eye on climate change’s…

Wall Street investors have hit the jackpot. Soon they’ll be able to buy, own, and dictate The Commons, public lands, the world of Mother Nature. In fact, a pilot project is already in the works with ecosystems up for sale…

The New York State Poor People’s Campaign holds Moral Witness Wednesday: Economic Investment for the People with a news conference and rally at the Long Island office of Senator Schumer to demand that he embrace the Build Back Better plan…

On Wednesday, November 17 at 6:30 PM At the People’s Forum 320 West 37th Street (between 8th & 9th Avenues) New York, NY 10018 People age 12 and older will be required to show proof of vaccine or negative COVID…

The 2021 US Peace Prize has been awarded to World BEYOND War “for exceptional global advocacy and creative peace education to end war and dismantle the war machine.” By US Peace Memorial Foundation Michael Knox, Chair of the US Peace…

The mass media are full of headlines announcing that a “watchdog” has concluded in an “independent” investigation that US military personnel did nothing wrong in an August airstrike in Kabul which killed ten civilians and zero combatants. “An independent Pentagon…

LIVE SHOW on Saturday, November 13th at 1 PM EST On this show, we speak with Michael Nagler, founder and president of the Metta Center for Nonviolence in Petaluma, California.  We are speaking about the challenges of nonviolence and the…

LIVE SHOW on Friday, November 19th at 1 PM EST On this show, we speak Professor Karl Grossman, author, TV program host and full professor of journalism at the State University of New York/College at Old Westbury. For 30 years, he has…

The UN Climate Change Conference (COP26) in Glasgow October 31st thru November 12th may be the most significant climate conference of all time. The fate of the planet is on the line. Prior to that august event, hundreds of peer-reviewed…