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Can a Pope start a positive domino? The Eco-Eco initiative

What are the biggest worries of the present times? For many it is Climate Change, for many others it is inequality and economic violence. For everybody it is physical violence. The unspeakable violence unleashed in the Middle East boomeranging back…

Kurds: A Common Issue for Iran, Turkey

Kurds are among one of those peoples in the world that despite considerable population and independent ethnic and cultural identity do not have an independent country. The Kurdish nostalgia, therefore, has been always a dominant feature among Kurdish groups in…

Ukrainians fleeing war in east approaching 1mn: UN report

The number of Ukrainians fleeing the country to neighboring nations following the 2014 eruption of an armed conflict in Ukraine’s eastern regions is approaching the one million mark, a UN report states. The Office of the UN High Commissioner for…

Greece to hold national referendum on debt deal – PM

The Greek PM has announced a national referendum on July 5 on the conditions of the debt deal with international creditors. It’s up to the Greek people, Tsipras said, to make a fateful decision on the country’s sovereignty, independence and…

Lower the US flag on July 4th

LOWER THE US FLAG ON JULY 4TH!  (Or: I’ll Take Down My Flag, When You Take Down Yours!)  By Gary Corseri I’ve marched in the Civil Rights Movement.  During the Vietnam War, I marched behind a Peace Symbol flag, and…

Runnymede eco-village and 800 years of Magna Carta

Magna Carta  is a charter agreed by King John of England at Runnymede, near Windsor, on 15 June 1215. There was a big party with the Queen and the whole Government to celebrarte 800 years of its signature. But at…

Bangladesh: freelancing as number one job for young people

Rapidly, because of outsourcing, freelancing is becoming a most popular and favoured profession for the young people of Bangladesh. Especially, search engine optimization (SEO), Web design and building, also Photoshop skills exercising is also popular along with content provision and…

Mass protest in Tokyo against the Abe administration: No to New Security Bills

In the evening of June 24, 30,000 protesters from cities across Japan gathered to the finale of a week-long sit-in at National Diet Building. The event banner read, “Stop to the change in national security bills! Come together! 6.24 Occupy…

Skivers and strivers: this 200–year–old myth won’t die

By George Monbiot for The Guardian Vilification of the unemployed, by the government and the media, has a long and shameful heritage – expect the fallacy that welfare creates poverty to persist Kindness is cruelty; cruelty is kindness: this is…

UK: NoTTIP block amongst 250,000 people at anti-austerity march

By #noTTIP #noTTIP campaigners join in the People’s Assembly march on June 20 – and warn that TTIP means permanent austerity June 20 2015 saw the biggest set of protest marches in recent years take place in Glasgow, Liverpool, Bristol,…

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