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Spain “Without Government”–And Then What?
Johan Galtung Democracy is rule with consent of the ruled; of all by dialogue, of majority by voting. Parliamentarism is government with parliament consent by all or by majority; and voter consent by proportionality. In one week the Spanish illegitimacy…
A Nonviolent Strategy to End the Climate Catastrophe
By Robert J. Burrowes As the evidence mounts that we are fast approaching the final point-of-no-return beyond which it will be impossible to take sufficient effective action to prevent climate catastrophe – see ‘The World Passes 400 PPM Threshold. Permanently’…
Either we build the Universal Human Nation or oblivion awaits
This is the choice that humanity faces. It might sound a bit strange as a title because the first concept isn’t one that circulates widely in the public consciousness and the second concept is rather frightening; but this is the…
Remember, remember the 6th of October when the first civilian plane was blown up…
…although it does not rhyme, it is time the 5 ‘Ws’ of this were known…. By Irene Halford It is now 40 years since the first terrorist attack on a civilian plane took place, yet another year goes by and…
On behalf of women, Michelle Obama tears into Trump: ‘enough is enough’
‘This is not something we can sweep under the rug as just another disturbing footnote in a sad election season,’ First Lady says in New Hampshire, by Deirdre Fulton, staff writer for Common Dreams In an impassioned and personal speech…
TED talks: What reality are you creating for yourself?
“Love the reality you build” is a central tenet of the humanist ethos, expressed in the book Humanise the Earth, by Silo. In this TED talk Isaac Lidsky gives a thorough example of how this works in real life. Transcript…
Monsanto Tribunal in The Hague: a big step for the world movement for food sovereignty
The Monsanto Tribunal is an international civil society initiative to hold Monsanto accountable for human rights violations, for crimes against humanity, and for ecocide. Eminent judges will hear testimonies from victims, and deliver an advisory opinion following procedures of the…
Why Aleppo is the symptom of what is wrong with how we deal with atrocities
By Patrick T. Hiller | PeaceVoice – TRANSCEND Media Service 8 Oct 2016 – “Never again!” is once again brought to our attention as we are facing killing and suffering of civilians on a large scale. The Syrian city of…
No moral superpower: Arundhati Roy, Edward Snowden, and the crimes of Empire
by Jake Johnson for Common Dreams When Arundhati Roy was preparing, in 2014, for a trip to Moscow to meet Edward Snowden, she was troubled by two things. One of them was the fact that the meeting was arranged to take…
Nuclear Disarmament – A challenge for the New UN Chief
Analysis by Alyn Ware* NEW YORK (IDN) – The United Nations General Assembly has on October 13 affirmed António Guterres, the former Prime Minister of Portugal and UN High Commissioner for Refugees, as the next United Nations Secretary-General (UNSG). The…
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