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UK Trident system is “so broken it can’t even do the tests that prove it works”, says whistleblower

Engineering failures on Trident submarine place crew at risk and raise doubts over whether missiles could actually be launched, says whistleblower This article comes from the Nuclear Information Service website. A Royal Navy whistleblower has exposed a shocking catalogue of…

ICAN campaign, NPT, and the humanitarian initiative

Dear Friends, [Alice Slater writes] There’s no doubt that the ICAN campaign and the humanitarian initiative which started in Norway, and then went on to Mexico and Austria has shaken things up at the NPT.   There’s a new impatience with…

Hunger strike by ex-political prisoner of military dictatorship in Chile

PUBLIC STATEMENT HUMANIST PARTY IQUIQUE HUNGER STRIKE EX. POLITICAL PRISONER OF MILITARY DICTATORSHIP IN CHILE On May 16, 2015 representatives of the Humanist Party of Iquique visited Gustavo Masciocchi Leon, former political prisoner of the military dictatorship that is on…

What’s that on the horizon? It’s a treaty to ban nuclear weapons!

Next week in New York is the fourth and final week of the nuclear non-proliferation treaty review conference: the five-yearly circus of meetings comes to its conclusion with absolutely no progress in sight on the key issue of weapon disarmament.…

Day against Homophobia: “The fight for equality continues”

The International Day against Homophobia is marked every 17 May to raise awareness about the importance of non- discrimination of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people around the world. This year also marks the 25th anniversary of the decision…

UN ‘Free & Equal’ campaign launches video spotlighting LGBT diversity, fight against homophobia

A new United Nations ‘Free & Equal’ campaign video highlighting the diversity of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) community is being shown today on the massive screens in New York’s Times Square ahead of International Day against…

Welcome and accept Rohingya refugees on Indonesian soil

Petitioning Joko Widodo, president of Indonesia Please welcome and accept Rohingya refugees on Indonesian soils Marco Kusumawijaya Jakarta, Indonesia and Dede Oetomo Rohingya refugees will die if they are not first and quickly allowed to land on Indonesian soils, as…

Humanitarian ceasefire needed for Palmyra

Association of World Citizens calls for a humanitarian ceasefire as fighting intensifies between ISIS and Syrian Government forces near Palmyra − a UNESCO Heritage site. In a 15 May 2015 message to Madame Irina  Bokova, UNESCO Director General, the Association…

One year on from the Odessa massacre, is everything the same or are things worse in Ukraine?

Oleg Yasinsky is a Ukrainian living in Chile for many years. From time to time he speaks to Pressenza about the situation in his homeland. Mariano Quiroga: Every time we talk, we promise that we’ll speak about more joyful things,…

US on the wrong side of history

This is what it has all come down to…. the US and the corrupt, dictatorial Gulf monarchies meeting at Camp David Thursday and agreeing on a plan to flood the Middle East with ‘missile defense’ (MD) systems. These Gulf monarchies…

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