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UK government must end arms sales and political support for Egypt’s General Sisi

As Egyptian autocrat General Sisi arrives in London, Campaign Against Arms Trade has called for the UK government to end arms sales to his regime and stop the political support that bolsters it. Andrew Smith of Campaign Against Arms Trade…

The gathering financial storm is just one effect of corporate power unbound

By George Monbiot for The Guardian Governments are liberating global corporations from the rule of law and leaving them to rip the world apart What have governments learned from the financial crisis? I could write a column spelling it out.…

Why You Should Stand With Andy Hall

Imagine facing the prospect of going to jail for seven years and being ordered to pay $11 million in damages because you spoke out about slavery-like practices? Labour rights activist Andy Hall faces charges triggered by research he conducted that…

Palestine: the teacher as pivot point for change and challenging trauma

Teaching with Theatre in Adversity: Issam Sahori Issam Sahori is a teacher in a village near Bethlehemin in the occupied Westbank, here he tells ProMosaik about his students: “My project is about how to protect students and children from violence…

Ecuador to pay $1 billion dollars in compensation to US oil company

Ecuador was today notified by the Annulment Committee of the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) of the final decision regarding the request for annulment of an award decided in October 2012 in a case brought by a…

Thankfulness and gratitude for individual and social well being (now Science also says so)

“Whenever you find great strength, joy, and kindness in your heart, or when you feel free and without contradictions, immediately be internally thankful. When you find yourself in opposite circumstances, ask with faith, and the gratitude you have accumulated will…

Scottish Labour Party votes to abolish the UK’s Trident nuclear weapons system

Jeremy Corbyn opposes nuclear weapons but he could not have the Labour Party conference debate the issue. Now his position has been given a new impetus by the Scottish Labour Party as they stated their opposition to the renewal of…

UK: Corbyn has already brought significant change to Labour

In Just a Few Weeks, Corbyn Has Already Brought Significant Change to Labour  Ken Livingstone writes: It has been a terrible week for the Tories, and a very good one for the opposition. The Tories expected to write a script…

Yemen: Where humanity is flaunted

Rene Wadlow, President, Association of World Citizens In an exceptional presentation on 31 October 2015, at the United Nations headquarters in Geneva, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and the President of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), Peter Maurer presented…

No to war – no to NATO: European network expands

CALL TO ACTION FROM THE ROME PEACE CONFERENCE, OCTOBER 26th, 2015 We, the participants attending the International Conference Against War and For a Neutral Italy and an Independent Europe held in Rome on October 26, 2015, on the initiative of…

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