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South Africa- 1 December is World Aids day. As a result of such days emphasising the problem and the ensuing campaigns that are related to the issue South Africa has come a long way regarding this struggle and the fight against…

I don’t like logical contradictions. I chose nonviolence – An interview with David Swanson By Milena Rampoldi, ProMosaik e.V.  – An interview with David Swanson about the importance of deciding to become a pacifist, because war is a logical contradiction,…

Not having managed to make a clear case for bombing Syria the UK Prime Minister resorts to insulting the leader of the opposition and others proposing a different strategy to defeat Isil by calling them “terrorist sympathisers” ahead of tomorrow’s…

Taking advantage of the COPS Climate change conference in Paris, the World Future Council published an important new resource “The Climate-Nuclear Nexus” (PDF format). Jurgen Sheffran, is the report’s lead author along with John Burroughs, Anna Leidreiter, Rob Van Riet…

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French president Hollande has declared war – war on terror, George W. Bush style. Like September 11, 2001 wasn’t a war, Paris November 13 wasn’t a war. It was a criminal act.  The war on terror has been an exceptionally…

Paris, 30 November 2015 Your Excellency Mr. François Hollande, President of France, Distinguished Heads of State and Government, Your Excellency Mr. Laurent Fabius, President of COP21, Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen, You are here today to write the script for a…

Among many volunteer groups that are ‘doing their bit’ for the Middle East Pressenza came across this Facebook entry of Roey Convery sharing news from her pal Margaret Tookey’s travels into Syria. The tale tells a lot in a few…

G4S profits from Israel’s brutal occupation of Palestine. So why is the UN giving them $22 million? Dear readers, Waging violence is bad enough. Profiting from it? That’s even worse. But that’s what G4S, a British “defense” conglomerate, does everyday.…

Dear friends of the rainforests, Time is running out for Papua’s nature. Indonesia’s President Joko Widodo intends to sacrifice 1.2 million hectares of forest and smallholder land in Papua for industrial rice plantations. This would spell the end for a…