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We are living in what feels like a full-action reality show, jumping from conflict to conflict. News coverage is 24/7, with crises from Iraq to Ukraine and now Israel and Palestine. Some media are already working on the next conflict…

These are moments of deep reflection, in the face of what’s happening in Israel and in the world. I feel a profound sadness for what I perceive as a clearly misguided direction in how events are unfolding and how difficulties…

In Indonesia, which is the top producer and exporter of palm oil globally, about 200,000 hectares (494,210 acres) of oil palm plantations are to be replaced with forests, the government announced Tuesday. By Paige Bennett The move will convert oil…

A personal narrative by Reza Siar, a member of the Hazaras, one of Afganistan’s marginalized minority groups, who fled after the US troops left and the Taliban took over.   “Tomorrow and the day after tomorrow are their last days;…

As part of World Disarmament Week which takes place from October 24 to 30, we researched the different Canadian political parties to check which ones promote non-violence. In Canada, the only federal political party to openly promote nonviolence as a…

Rapidly intensifying hurricanes are some of the most frightening and destructive types of extreme weather. Predicting them has been notoriously difficult for forecasters who have been unable to fully understand why some tropical storms or tropical depressions that seem commonplace can suddenly turn…

Amid other crises, China’s economy has reeled from Western decoupling efforts. While several countries stand to gain from this process, it has only partially reduced China’s extensive global influence. By John P. Ruehl The 10th anniversary of the Belt and…

Gabriel Boric’s words raised hives in the National Press Association (ANP) “We have a lot of good news to give. When I see the newspaper headlines, I actually read the newspapers little, but the desire to prefer the bad ones…

On October 27, the United Nations General Assembly adopted a resolution entitled ” Protection of civilians and upholding legal and  humanitarian obligations .  ” In it, an immediate humanitarian truce is called for in the hostilities in Gaza, it is…

              /Maxine Lowy/ Through a yellowish-orange crack, a sepia-tinted eye from the past unblinkingly observes the scene below. It gazes down at today’s generation of this university world, cell phones in their hands, and…