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It Is Time to Call Radio “Liberty” What It Is: Radio Gestapo Amerika Paul Craig Roberts Radio “Liberty” has always been a propaganda ministry. Formerly its propaganda was directed against the Soviet Union. Today it is directed against distinguished Americans…

USA: black Labor, against wars at home and abroad

Black Labor, Baltimore Protests link the struggles against wars at home and abroad. An important part of the changing face of the antiwar and social justice  movements is labor, which has stepped forward dramatically.  At the UNAC conference this year…

Peace Lessons: how to reduce violence

If you are interested in learning more about the meaning of, and the relationshipsamong, direct, structural and cultural violence and how one peace studies scholar suggests we use the integrative power of nonviolence to address violence constructively, then I suggest…

Nuclear weapons on hair-trigger alert must end!

Switzerland, New Zealand, Sweden and Global Zero lead global initiative to stand down nuclear forces. Basel Peace Office Director Alyn Ware runs 1800 Prague Steps to draw attention to nuclear weapons risks. As world leaders descended on the United Nations…

Shadow boxing by Mr Xi and Mr Chu

It has been almost six years since a chairman of the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) journeyed to Beijing to meet the secretary general of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), now President Xi Jinping. This recent meeting in Beijing with Chu…

Rugby or Thugby OR just May-weather perhaps…

I was trying to ignore, via a head in the sand approach, what I consider should have been banned years ago like fox-hunting, i.e. that boxing event last weekend.  It’s not easy though as so much of the Western world…

Canada: report on nuclear power situation

Background:    May 4, 2015   Ontario Power Generation owns 20 nuclear power reactors. Two of them permanently shut down. Six more scheduled to be retired by 2020.     The largest nuclear power station in North America is the…

South Africa: the man who walked 321km for harmony

Mr. Duncan Nyawo is a teacher by profession who is troubled by a few things deep in his soul, and this caused him to walk from Nelspruit to Pretoria which is about 321 km just to deliver a message of…

Real nonviolence is a weapon Baltimore police wouldn’t want to face

By Kate Aronoff for Waging Nonviolence. On Saturday night, Barack and Michelle Obama gathered with some of the country’s most well-respected journalists, comedians and celebrities in Washington, D.C., for the White House Press Correspondents Dinner, an annual event notorious for…

Batteries just became interesting!

Tesla Motors have just announced the launch of a product that will revolutionise the supply of energy to the whole world. In a few short years the world can be free of its reliance on fossil fuels and nuclear energy.…

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