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Pope Francis is in the United States this week. And while he’s there, he’s speaking out forcefully for the elimination of nuclear weapons. The Vatican has a long history of standing against the spread of nuclear weapons. But this is…

Israeli volunteers are aiding Syrian refugees in Europe By Gavin Rabinowitz LESBOS, Greece (JTA) — As the small rubber dinghy crowded with Syrians and Afghans emerged from themidnight-black sea to land on a desolate pebble beach, the first people to…

What Is Revolutionary Media? 3 Key Ideas July 20, 2015 by Kit O’Connell @KitOConnell   The following essay is based on a short presentation I gave Saturday at Monkeywrench Books in Austin, Texas as part of “Imagining Revolutionary Media,” a…

In his just-released book, Disaster Capitalism: Making a Killing out of Catastrophe, http://www.versobooks.com/books/1985-disaster-capitalism Antony Loewenstein offers us a superb description of the diminishing power of national governments and international organisations to exercise power in the modern world as multinational corporations consolidate…

Pope Francis’ encyclical Laudato Si, is an urgent call for a world-wide dialogue on the defining issue of the 21st century: climatic change and the future of the planet. The Papal encyclical builds upon the tradition of Catholic thought on…

 Save the Pope’s Radical Prophetic Message from Media Trivialization By Rabbi Michael Lerner – most recent editorial in Tikkun magazine The recent national conference of the Religion Newswriters Association in Philadelphia focused on preparing the several hundred media attendees for…

Moscow, Sep 23 (Prensa Latina) Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said today that the United States has become more attentive to the viewpoint of Russia regarding the settlement process in Syria. Lavrov told reporters that the US side has become…

Pressenza speaks with our own correspondent on the Jammu side of the Jammu-Kashmir region, Shilpa Thakur, who gained an honourable mention at the Ashok Sodhi Memorials Awards for the best photography 2015, organised by the Press Club of Jammu. We…

                                                               September 23, 2015 Press Contact: Astrid Puentes Riaño, co-director…

The main cause of the refugee crisis in Europe is the U.S. wars and sanctions to orchestrate regime change in the Middle East, North Africa and Central Asia.  The horrible images of hundreds of thousands of refugees from Syria, Iraq,…