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Perpetual Wars of the United States of America

The military-industrial complex needs enemies. Without them it would wither. Can we not rid the world of these insane and anti-human weapons before everything of value is reduced to radioactive ashes? Can we not rid the world of the institution of war?

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International Forgiveness Day

7 Jul 2023 - Talk at the Lokahi Cultural Center in Wai`anae, Honolulu, Hawaii - The Theft of the Hawaiian Islands Kingdom by the United States of America

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Exploring the Centrality of Nonviolent Communication for Resolution of Conflicts and a Culture of Peace

It can be an important starting point of analyzing and linking Johan Galtung’s conflict triangle using the Gandhian nonviolent communication. It may also be mentioned that Galtung himself was much influenced by Gandhi.

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NEWS

What to Expect from the G77+China Summit in Cuba

14 Sep 2023 - Tomorrow the G77+China Summit will kick off in Havana, Cuba, with the attendance of heads of state and government from more than 100 nations.

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G-7 and BRICS Visions of the Future: Coercive Geopolitics or Multilateral Cooperation?

17 Sep 2023 - A modified version of this post was published in CounterPunch on 8 Sep 2023, which itself is a reconfigured version appearing earlier on TMS (Transcend Media Service) on 4 Sep. Neither version considers the relevance of the Delhi meeting of the G-20, which represents a weaker and somewhat overlapping grouping compared to either G-7 or BRICS.

U.N. General Assembly Starts: NGO Action Needed

With the United Nations General Assembly starting on 19 September 2023, there is a good deal of reflection going on among governments and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) regarding the  effectiveness of the U.N. to meet the challenges facing the world community.

Beyond Climate Colonialism and Food Imperialism to Earth Democracy and Food Freedom

6 Sep 2023 - Mother Earth is a sacred, self organized living being. She creates and sustains life. Through her biosphere and her complex ecological processes, she regulates her water systems, her nutrition cycles, and her climate system.

Peace Disruption by Weaponisation of Food Security through the Passage of Time (Part 1)

“There is Enough on this Planet for Everyone’s Needs but not for Everyone’s Greed.” -- Mahatma Gandhi

BRICS: The Quest for a Just Multi-Polar World (video)

7 Sep 2023 - The BRICS Summit that concluded on 24 Aug 2023 in Johannesburg is a significant milestone in the journey towards a multi-polar world.

The Elite’s 5,000-Year War on Your Mind Is Climaxing–Can We Defeat It? (Part 2)

10 Sep 2023 - Part 1 of this study introduced the subject and discussed the psychological and political methods used to control our minds. Part 2 will consider the medical and technological methods used and explain what is necessary to win this war.

Another Magical JFK Assassination Pseudo-Debate and Limited Hangout

4 Sep 2023 - Much has been made of the simultaneous reports in The New York Times and Vanity Fair of a former Secret Service agent, Paul Landis, part of the security detail in Dallas when President John F. Kennedy was assassinated. 

Landing on the Moon

India has sent a Moon Lander to land on the moon on 22 August.

The Gender Gap in Finance

Women represent half the world's population ~ and half of its economic potential. A society cannot have sustained economic prosperity and well-being until the central role of women is recognized and their financial health is used to shape policy.

IN FOCUS

Departments for Peace – A Great Institutional Invention

15 Sep 2023 - We need to change this culture of militarism, populism and extremism or we will face the scenario of what John F Kennedy said in his speech to the UN in 1961, ‘Mankind must put an end to war or war will put an end to mankind.’

Vedantic Democracy, Education and Peace

All men tend to be free. Freedom is the birth right of every man irrespective of caste, creed and color.

ACTIVISM

Of Civil Disobedience

This is a citizen’s right. A right of defiance, of distrust towards a State and its institutions when we are convinced that our rights are being violated.

AFRICA

Libya Climate Crisis Linked to Pentagon-NATO Intervention of 2011

13 Sep 2023 - Western foreign policy has destroyed the capacity of Libya and the Kingdom of Morocco to coordinate relief efforts amid the worsening effects of climate change.

Humanitarian Imperialism Created the Libyan Nightmare

16 Sep 2023 - NATO’s military intervention in Libya in 2011, which overthrew the regime of Muammar Gaddafi, resulted in a chaotic and murderous failed state. Libyans pay a horrific price for this catastrophe.

ASIA--PACIFIC

Operational Plan for Transitioning the Military Government into the Hawaiian Kingdom Government

12 Sep 2023 - Bringing the U.S. Occupation to an End - What the U.S. military did when they invaded Hawaiian territory and caused the overthrow of the Hawaiian Kingdom government was unlawful, and admitted being so by President Grover Cleveland, but that didn’t mean it ended then and there.

BRICS

Intra-BRICS Trade and Analysis 2023

4 Sep 2023 - BRICS countries as a total currently includes about 26% of the total global land mass, and about 42% of the world’s population. This basic clout means that BRICS combined efforts in restructuring the global economy and strengthening economic and financial cooperation have been welcomed by many countries – and been viewed with suspicion elsewhere.

The Expansion of BRICS: Challenges and Uncertainties

13 Sep 2023 - The negotiations for expansion faced significant pressure from the Chinese. In contrast, Brazil and India resisted and, along with South Africa, negotiated for a stance from Russia and China for a broader UN reform. However, this raises uncertainties about the future of BRICS.

WAR RACKET--CATASTROPHE CAPITALISM

‘War Is Good for Business,’ Declares Executive at London’s Global Arms Fair

15 Sep 2023 - "Deals done at DSEI will cause misery across the world, causing global instability, and devastate people's lives," one peace activist lamented. Russia's ongoing invasion of Ukraine and the West's scramble to arm Ukrainian homeland defenders have been a bonanza for arms-makers.

MILITARISM

Weather Warfare: Beware the US Military’s Climatic Experiments

14 Sep 2023 - ‘Climatic Warfare’ Has Been Excluded from the Agenda on Climate Change

MEDIA

Climate Collapse – The Grim Silence of Our Leaders

14 Sep 2023 - None of us has previously witnessed a barrage of worldwide extreme weather like in this summer. Canadian wildfires, a Hawaiian town incinerated, a Greek island devastated by rainfall, a Libyan town washed into the sea leaving 20,000 dead, killer hurricanes fueled by climate change, heatwaves, floods…

CAPITALISM

It’s Hard to Find Fulfillment in a Civilization That Revolves Around Corporate Profits

18 Sep 2023 - Corporate profits are our life. Corporate profits are our religion. Most of us pour more of our energy into generating corporate profits throughout our lives than the most pious monk pours into worshipping any deity.

SOCIALISM - MARXISM

What Every Child Should Know about Marx’s Theory of Value

September 2023 - The law of value works in mysterious ways. For some Marxists, it underlies everything we need to know about capitalism. But, just as Karl Marx claimed he was not a Marxist, so too might he have said, “that’s not my law of value.”

OBITUARIES

Fernando Botero Angulo, Painter and Sculptor (19 Apr 1932 – 15 Sep 2023)

Colombian painter and sculptor of voluminous figures that grace city centres the world over including Paris, Madrid and London. RIP

HISTORY

This Week in History

18-24 September 2023

INSPIRATIONAL

How to Live in Light: A Blind Hero of the French Resistance on Seeing the Heart of Life and Contacting the Oneness of Being

“To see takes time, like to have a friend takes time,” Georgia O’Keeffe wrote as she contemplated the art of seeing just before the Little Prince sighed his timeless sigh: “What is essential is invisible to the eye.”

SCIENCE - SPIRITUALITY

Notes on Complexity: A Buddhist Scientist on the Murmuration of Being

The Buddhist scientist Neil Theise endeavors to bridge the mystery out there with the mystery of us, bringing together our three primary instruments of investigating reality: empirical science, philosophy, and metaphysics.

ORIGINAL LANGUAGES

(Castellano) C. G. Jung: La espiritualidad como dimensión esencial del alma

9 septiembre 2023 - Hoy existe una preocupación fundamental: rescatar la razón sensible o cordial (del  corazón) para equilibrar el exceso desastroso de la razón instrumental-analítica. Tenemos que armonizar el logos con el pathos, el anima con el animus si queremos resolver los problemas sociales y enfrentar la alarma ecológica.

(Castellano) La Paloma de la paz de Fernando Botero, una obra que ha entrado y salido de la Casa de Nariño

La paloma de la paz de Fernando Botero fue creada en 2016, con motivo de la firma del Acuerdo Final de Paz entre el Gobierno Santos y las FARC. Las controversias alrededor suyo no han sobrado.

(Italiano) L’intelligenza artificiale e il suo ‘metabolismo’

11 Settembre 2023 - Che cos’è l’intelligenza artificiale (IA)? Tra le numerose definizioni disponibili scelgo quella proposta dal sito dell’Unione Europea: 

FOOD FOR THOUGHT

Voting, Democracy, Solutions

Really?

JOKE OF THE WEEK

The Never-Ending Story

Ad Nauseam...

SHORT VIDEO CLIPS

War/No More Trouble (Music Video of the Week)

This song around the world features musicians who have seen and overcome conflict and hatred with love and perseverance. We don't need more trouble, what we need is love. The spirit of Bob Marley always lives on.