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Appeal to Support Ukrainian Pacifist Yurii Sheliazhenko

On behalf of the signatory branches of the International Fellowship of Reconciliation (IFOR), we express our dismay and deep concern for the decision to charge Mr. Yurii Sheliazhenko, executive secretary of the Ukrainian Pacifist Movement (UPM), with “justification of Russian…

In Russia, Navalny has been sentenced to 19 years in a penal colony. Amnesty International calls for his immediate release

Aleksei Navalny, a prisoner of conscience and a leading figure in Russia’s political opposition movement, has been sentenced to 19 years to spend in a penal colony on trumped-up charges related to “extremism”. He will actually have to serve 10…

Dealing with the climate

The “full agreement” between Giorgia Meloni and Joe Biden is not surprising: unconditional support for the war in Ukraine leaves no room for differences of any kind. In addition, Giorgia has also signed up for the war – for now…

Bantu: returning to Kemet

This August 6th, the Centre for Humanist Studies of the Americas has organised the conference “Bantu returning to Kemet (Egypt)” by Maali Kentake. It will take place at 11 AM Argentina. For millennia others have told false stories of our…

Unacademic debates

A CONTROVERSIAL INTERVIEW Continuing his tour of Europe, aimed at strengthening trade ties with some countries on that continent, Chilean President Gabriel Boric was interviewed by BBC journalist Stephen Sackur about certain expressions made by the former Finance Minister of…

Economic growth or degrowth? Less would be much more

On 19 July the Asian Development Bank euphorically released the economic growth estimates for Asian countries for 2023 and 2024: after the pause imposed by Covid, the Asian economies will grow by an average of 4.8%. According to the data,…

August 8: Peace Gathering to Commemorate 78th Anniversary of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

August 8, 2023, Tuesday, 11:50AM-1PM In front of the Consulate General of Japan in New York, 299 Park Avenue, New York, NY (Between 49th and 48th Street) 78 years have passed since the U.S. dropped atomic bombs on the Japanese…

The best interests of the child in the constitutional debate

“Children first” is a statement typical of show business politics. It sounds pretty, it lacks content, but it has the virtue that everyone understands it and assimilates it according to their own principles, values and identification with some public policy.…

5G, microwaves and their effects on living organisms

The matrix of life The Earth’s ecosphere or sphere of life is permeated by the Earth’s magnetic field and its occasional perturbations caused by interaction with the solar wind plasma. Local geomagnetic fields are also slightly modified by natural atmospheric…

Oppenheimer Paradox: Power of Science and the Weakness of Scientists

The new blockbuster film on Oppenheimer has brought back the memories of the first nuclear bomb dropped on Hiroshima. It has raised complex questions on the nature of the society that permitted such bombs to be developed and used and…

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