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Peace Journalism Perspective

EDITORIAL

Voting for Peace? A Democratic Dilemma

I recently discussed Biden's and U.S. Democratic Party's foreign policies with a friend in the peace movement. He agreed that to call these policies “imperialist” was, if anything, an understatement: “In the American two-party system, there is no lesser evil to vote for or support.” No lesser evil?

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The Human Consequences of Economic Sanctions: Event Summary

23 May 2023 - On 19 May, the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) brought together leading experts in the study of economic sanctions to help to answer a critical, but often-ignored, question: What are the human consequences of US economic sanctions?

FEATURED RESEARCH PAPER

The Polarities of Democracy from Conception to Execution

Abstract: People around the globe have embraced democracy to bring about positive social change to address our environmental, economic, and militaristic challenges. Yet, there is no agreement on a definition of democracy that can guide social change efforts. The polarities of democracy present a unifying theory of democracy to guide healthy, sustainable, and just social change efforts.

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USA: Disconnecting War from Its Consequences

31 May 2023 - Twenty-two years ago, Congress put sanity up for a vote. It lost in the House, 420-1 and in the Senate, 98-0. Barbara Lee’s was the lone vote against the Authorization for the Use of Military Force resolution. Militarism keeps expanding. If there’s a problem out there, option one is to kill it quickly. Problem solved!

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Iran to Join Shanghai Cooperation Organization in July

1 Jun 2023 - Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian said today that his country's accession to the SCO will be completed in the next summit on 4 Jul under the chairmanship of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

The Vassalage at Heart of the G7

1 Jun 2023 - Resurrecting the Concept of the Triad - Following the end of the Second World War, the United States built an international system that was premised on the subordination and integration of Japan and Europe.

How a Tour of Russia Showed Me That Propaganda Perverts Reality in the Minds of US Citizens

'Waging Peace': My month-long tour of the country was an eye-opening experience, and so was the hostility that met me back home in the US.

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Freedom in Diversity

1 Jun 2023 - Now is the time to reject the industrial agriculture model, a model that came from and behaves like war. Industrial agriculture is destroying life on Earth, the role of women in food and farming, our health, and the health of the planet.

The U.S. Military in Hawaii: The Dark Side of Paradise!

2 Jun 2023 - The Hawaiian Islands are viewed as the Paradise in the Pacific--image promoted by the tourist industry. But Hawaii has a very different dark side as one of the most militarized places in the world and a long history of illegal U.S. occupation.

Of the Sahel and the Merchants of Death

2 Jun 2023 - There is a trafficking web across the Sahel spanning 6.000 kilometres--from Atlantic Ocean to Red Sea--home to more than 300 million people in 10 countries: Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Chad, The Gambia, Guinea, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, and Senegal. 

Use of ChatGPT to Clarify Possibility of Dialogue of Higher Quality

Implications for "Yes" and "No" Campaigns on Controversial Issues

Against Involuntary Death

29 May 2023 - I recently celebrated my 85th birthday, an event that clearly lands me in “the valley of the shadow of death,” as King David so neatly put it. For a self-donated birthday present I gave myself permission to talk publicly about the more general implications of this situation in a way that some people may consider irritating or tasteless.

International Day of the Oceans

8 June has been designated by the UNGA as the International Day of the Oceans to highlight the important role that the U.N. played in the creation of the 1982 Law of the Sea Convention. -Progress on Asian Maritime Delimitations Needed-

The High Costs of Military Air Shows

A Short History: Squandering the Planet’s Increasingly Scarce Fossil Fuels for our Amusement

Putin, South Africa, and the International Criminal Court

31 May 2023 - The Upcoming BRICS Meetings in South Africa - The West has deployed the International Criminal Court in the US/NATO proxy war with Russia in Ukraine.

Journey to St. Petersburg, Moscow & Crimea (Part 2)

Eyewitness Crimea - In May of this year, we took the long, 27-hour train ride from Moscow to Crimea to see how life is there and what the sentiment of the people are as the US and Ukraine sharpen their threats to “recapture” this peninsula from Russia.

Peace Disruption (Part 2): Palestine’s Killing Fields–The End Must Go On

Endless, 75 years of apartheid Israel’s discrimination, tyranny, oppression, massacres of women and children, targeted ethnic cleansing and displacement of indigenous Palestinians, marked by the total silence of world religious leaders.

Spirituality among Disparities

A cliché often repeated is that India is a land of diversities of all types: religious, political, economic, linguistic, geographic, ethnic, cultural, and food or cuisine-gastronomy.

Another Look at the U.S. Financial Transactions Tax That Could Eliminate Need for All Others

2 Jun 2023 - A small financial transactions tax could correct a number of maladies in the US economic system, from the federal debt crisis to the widening wealth divide to the rampant financialization of the economy, while eliminating taxes on income and sales.

The Hypocrisy of Economic Sanctions

1 Jun 2023 - Are economic sanctions a violation of human rights?

Spirituality Negation in Religions: A Catalyst for Global Peace Disruption

This publication discusses Spirituality as one of the multifaceted elements, of the pillars of religious beliefs and ritualistic ideologies of humanoids, since evolution.

AFRICA

African Unity and the New Cold War

Imperialism extends its destabilization efforts against China and Russia across the continent. This year’s 60th anniversary of the Organization of African Unity occurs at an important point in international relations. Africa and its people were essential in the rise of western colonialism due to the Atlantic Slave Trade, 15th to 19th century.

ANGLO AMERICA

U.S. Empire Named Most Murderous Killing Machine in History

30 May 2023 - New Study Finds U.S. Responsible for Nearly 300 Million Deaths—and Counting

Blinken Dismisses Calls for a Ceasefire–Says US Must Build Up Ukraine’s Military

2 Jun 2023 - The US will focus on arming Ukraine and not on a negotiated settlement: US Secretary of State Antony Blinken laid out a plan to massively expand Kiev’s military before talks begin.

When Will US Join Global Call to End Ukraine War?

30 May 2023 - Peace initiatives to end the war in Ukraine being pursued around the world, and the grassroots movement that supports them, as the US is determined to prolong it at great cost in Ukrainian lives and risk of nuclear war.

The Democratic Party’s Crucifixion of Matt Taibbi

28 May 2023 - Extensive government blacklists, revealed by the Twitter Files, are used to censor left-wing and right-wing critics. This censorship apparatus has been turned on the reporter who exposed them.

WAR RACKET--CATASTROPHE CAPITALISM

“Talk of War with China is Total Insanity—Everybody’s Finished if It Takes Place,” Says Noam Chomsky

26 May 2023 - “Major world powers need to shift from confrontation to accommodation soon; otherwise, we’ll go off the precipice together.”

The Wars We Don’t (Care to) See

Aggression Made Easy

BRICS

Saudi Arabia Set to Join BRICS’ New Development Bank

31 May 2023 - The ties between the BRICS bank and Saudi Arabia signals an advancement in the de-dollarisation of the global economy. This week, Saudi Arabia held talks to join BRICS' New Development Bank as its ninth member, a decision not only economic but also political.

PALESTINE - ISRAEL

The Slow Ethnic Cleansing of Ein Samiya’s Bedouin Community

31 May 2023 - Israeli settlers and military systematically made life unbearable for the Bedouin community living in the West Bank's Ein Samiya region. On May 22 they were forced to leave their lands and were displaced for the fourth time since 1969.

CAPITALISM

The Threat of Para-state Power Called International Banking

Banking is the main accumulator of resources and the real power behind formal power. It has become the most powerful sector of Big Capital, being an area of the economy that produces nothing and should have only an instrumental role.

MILITARISM

Judge Finds Australian War Hero to Be a War Criminal

2 Jun 2023 - Canberra’s most-decorated living soldier loses the “defamation case of the century” over alleged murder of Afghan civilians.

ENVIRONMENT

Climate Carnage: Things Can Only Get Worse

29 May 2023 - Please stop repeating all this softened wording, such as climate change, climate-related hazards, climate crisis, or extreme weather events… And just call it what it really is: climate carnage. 

Fossil Fuels, Tipping Points, and a Viable Solution

Jun 2023 - A condemnation of the capitalist overuse of fossil fuels--and a solution.

TECHNOLOGY

Experts Urge Action to Mitigate ‘Risk of Extinction from AI’

30 May 2023 - It "should be a global priority alongside other societal-scale risks such as pandemics and nuclear war," says a new statement signed by dozens of artificial intelligence critics and boosters.

INSPIRATIONAL

Tao Te Ching on Peace and Nonviolence (4)

Quoted from the Tao Te Ching, a Chinese classic text written around 400 BC and traditionally credited to the sage Laozi.

SPIRITUALITY

Consciousness – Viññana Sutta

Monks, eye-consciousness is inconstant, changeable, alterable. Ear-consciousness... Nose-consciousness... Tongue-consciousness... Body-consciousness... Intellect-consciousness are inconstant, changeable, alterable.

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(Italiano) Etica nella Ricerca negli Atenei Torinesi

“Quando ragioniamo di etica della ricerca pensiamo alla sua libertà, al suo pluralismo, a un’etica che non risponde a una qualsivoglia morale ma ai valori costituzionali del nostro Paese”.

(Français) L’Hypocrisie des Sanctions Économiques

Les sanctions économiques sont-elles une violation des droits de l’Homme ?

FOOD FOR THOUGHT

What’s Your Sign

26 May 2023 - Say, what?

JOKE OF THE WEEK

The Accounting Crisis

29 May 2023 - Sigh!

SHORT VIDEO CLIPS

Beethoven’s Ode to Joy (Music Video of the Week)

A Spanish Flashmob of 100 Musicians in a Touchingly Human Reminder of Our Capacity for Ecstasy, Transcendence, and Collective Felicity