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Peace Boat’s Kawasaki Akira awarded the Kiyoshi Tanimoto Peace Prize

On October 15, it was announced that Kawasaki Akira (Peace Boat Executive Committee Member, International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) International Steering Group member) has been selected as the recipient of the 33rd annual “Kiyoshi Tanimoto Peace Prize.” Kiyoshi…

Poor People’s Campaign: Moral Action Congress

One of the two major annual events of the National Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival, this year’s Moral Action Congress will once again be held online because of Covid. We will be organizing and building toward…

Forbes Reveals Why the US Government Is Trying to Extradite Venezuelan Diplomat Alex Saab

Alex Saab is “the key that unlocks the Venezuelan monetary mystery—that is, how a country facing sanctions from the US, the UK and the European Union—is still able to export things like gold and oil…and really the only man who…

Nazi Germany: Who Fueled the Myth of Adolf Hitler?

The answer is simple. Who was the person in charge of the propaganda of Nazi Germany? Joseph Goebbels. A wordsmith. A master manipulator. A terrific orator. A man who knew how to whip up a crowd in a frenzy. A…

Rally Against Human Rights Abuse in Poland

As President Andrzej Duda addressed the 76th session of the General Assembly of the United Nations, activists rallied outside in Dag Hammarskjöld Plaza for human rights in Poland. The activist coalition held Pride flags and stark images of the victims…

From 9/11 to Today: What Have We Learned? From Afghanistan to Guantanamo

Following the 9-11 attacks, the Bush Administration launched a “war on terrorism,” featuring the invasion of Afghanistan and Iraq, and unlawful prisons in Guantanamo and elsewhere. Twenty years later, the US troop withdrawal from Afghanistan has triggered fresh debate about…

Immigration & cross-border migrating populations in Europe | Interview with Dr Evgenia Iliadou

Dr Evgenia Iliadou studied Sociology at the University of Crete and Social Anthropology at the University of the Aegean; she recently in 2019 completed her PhD thesis upon awarded scholarship on “Border Harms and Everyday Violence: The Lived Experiences of Border…

Face 2 Face with Flavia Negozio and Leonardo Libero.

LIVE SHOW on Sunday, September 12 at 12:30 PM EST On this show, we speak with Flavia Negozio and Leonardo Libero about their article titled “On Winds of change and high altitude winds: alternative solutions to the energy crisis of the Planet”.…

Church and Peace grapples with the topic of Images of God and Nonviolence

From 3 to 5 September 2021, the annual general meeting and international conference of Church and Peace dealt with the topic of Images of God and (Non)Violence. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the conference took place online with more than…

United States Conference of Mayors Calls on the United States to Welcome the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons and to Act Now to Prevent Nuclear War and Eliminate Nuclear Weapons

At the close of its 89th Annual Meeting, held virtually due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, on August 31, 2021, the United States Conference of Mayors (USCM) Executive Committee unanimously adopted a bold new resolution Calling on the United States…

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