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EDITORIAL

Zionism: The End of an Illusion

The question remains: what does Zionism have to do with Judaism? The answer is to be found in history rather than in sacred texts.

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Prof. John Mearsheimer on the Catastrophic Outcomes of the Ukraine and Middle East Armed Conflicts

2 Jul 2024 - NATO's actions and escalation in Ukraine, the risk of nuclear conflict, the influence of Israeli lobby, the potential war with Hezbollah, Iran, and Russia, the outcomes of the war in Gaza, the impact of the US election results, and Biden vs. Trump foreign policy.

FEATURED RESEARCH PAPER

Gender and Diversity in Research

Elsevier's 2024 Gender Report tracks and analyzes data across 18 countries and 2 regions (EU 27 and the world) examining women’s performance in research and innovation across disciplines and career stages. Our Report provides new insights and also alternative metrics including policy and media citations. 

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THANK YOU to all supporters/friends who recognize the value of our Peace Work and donate regularly--unfortunately, no longer enough.

INDIGENOUS RIGHTS

‘A World without Borders’: Revolutionary Love and Solidarity for Palestine

Revolutionary love is not just an abstract concept. It is a transformative force that challenges the status quo and fuels the fight for justice, equality and human dignity. In supporting the Palestinian people, you not only aid our struggle, you enrich your own lives by connecting with a deeper sense of purpose and humanity.

NEWS

Joe Biden Drops Out of 2024 US Presidential Race

21 Jul 2024 - My fellow Americans...

SPECIAL FEATURE

Genocide in Pictures: Worth a Trillion Words

Parental Guidance Advised: Pornographic Violence GAZA and WEST BANK, 22 Jul 2024

CONFLICT RESOLUTION - MEDIATION

Zelensky Says Russia Should Attend Next Ukraine Summit

15 Jul 2024 - Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said today that Russian representatives should attend the next international summit on the Ukraine war. The comments marked a shift for him.

HUMAN RIGHTS

UN Human Rights Report 2023

Foreword by Volker Türk, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights - As I reflect on 2023, a milestone anniversary year for the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the impression remains of a year battered by multiple, intersecting crises, refusing to release their grip.

TRANSCEND MEMBERS

Biodiversity Is Life, Not an Asset Class

17 Jul 2024 - Debunking Biodiversity Credits, the Next Wave of Bio-Imperialism - In the name of biodiversity “conservation” and “protection”, the corporate sector is increasingly making calls for the financialisation of nature.

AI-enabled Mapping and Animation of Learning Pathways

22 Jul 2024 - Use of Polyhedra in Configuring Memorable Integrative Frameworks - The early web version of the program of the Summit of the Summits to be held in Japan in Sep 2024 invited critical commentary in an exercise appropriate to the times.

170 Years of U.S. Aggression against Nicaragua

15 Jul 2024 - When the Monroe Doctrine was declared, in 1823,  it was aimed at European colonial powers to butt out: the US "sphere of influence" included all of Latin America and the Caribbean. During the past two centuries, virtually all of them had to endure US intervention and interference in their internal affairs.

Will the ICC Act? The Netanyahu/Gallant Arrest Warrants are a Truth or Dare Moment?

17 Jul 2024 - The ICC would be widely viewed as a weak institution by not obtaining participation or cooperation of states such as USA, Russia, China, Israel. It was most unfavorably compared to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) to which all members of the UN were automatically parties.

Caged in Oligarchic Contradictions

19 Apr 2024 - A contronym is a word having two definitions that contradict each other.  Two examples are the word bolt, which can mean to lock with a bolt and to flee, and clip, which means to attach and to detach.

My Chance

I am waiting for a chance whereby I can post some messages that would have cultural or spiritual values. The reason I am looking for such messages is that there is violence around me everywhere — near where I live and around me.

The Supreme Court Takes on the Administrative State

15 Jul 2024 - In a highly controversial decision, the Supreme Court on June 28 reversed a 40-year old ruling, reclaiming the Court’s role as interpreter of statutory law as it applies to a massive body of regulations imposed by federal agencies in such areas as the environment, workplace safety, public health and more. 

A Manifesto for Action

13 Jul 2024 - Last month’s blog requested your suggestions on how to relaunch a global movement for the culture of peace. You responded handsomely and there are 10 suggestions printed at the bottom of the blog.

Implosion and Rebuilding

19 Jul 2024 - The “Israeli” Knesset voted to deny any possibility of a Palestinian State in Palestine. I read polls indicating most Israelis support the ongoing genocide of our people. I heard Donald Trump stoke colonial language and defend racist ancestors.

IN FOCUS

Israel’s Invitation to This Year’s Atomic Bomb Commemorations in Japan Has Sparked a Controversy over Double Standards

19 Jul 2024 - Hiroshima, the Japanese city devastated by a US atomic bomb in 1945, is at the center of a growing controversy after local officials dismissed calls to disinvite Israel from its annual ceremony promoting world peace as war rages in Gaza.

Important 4-min Exposition

12 Jul 2024 - The truth about Putin, Ukraine, and NATO.

Crisis in the West, Opportunity for the Rest?

17 Jul 2024 - The crisis of U.S. hegemony may lead to a deeper crisis or to opportunity. Like Ulysses, we cannot avoid the dangerous passage between Scylla and Charybdis to get to the promised safe harbor.

NATO

NATO’s Obscure Relations with Israel

20 Jul 2024 - On the arms flowing between members of the military alliance and Israel, which despite its small size, ranks as the 15th top weapons importer in the world.

ANGLO AMERICA

US President Joe Biden Drops Out of the Presidential Race, VP Kamala Harris Announces Her Candidacy

21 Jul 2024 - After being diagnosed with COVID-19 last week, Biden remains at his Delaware beach house, and said he would address the nation later this week. Kamala has rushed to announce her nomination to the US presidency endorsed by Biden.

Exposing the Myth of the ‘Good War’

12 Jul 2024 - The USA has a problem but don’t worry, because we can stop anytime we want. I speak of course of USA's bottomless appetite for warfare, the fact that we can’t seem to go fifteen minutes without lighting up a third world country like a fucking spliff. But this doesn’t make us addicts...

Project 2025: What Is It?

Building now for a conservative victory through policy, personnel, and training. It is not enough for conservatives to win elections.

Trump Got a Bloodied Ear–US ‘Political Violence’ Poses a Far Bigger Danger to the Rest of Us

15 Jul 2024 - Biden and Trump are two rotten figureheads of a rotting empire. Ignore the tribal rhetoric: neither poses an existential threat. But the system behind them does.

WAR RACKET--CATASTROPHE CAPITALISM

Rule by Militia

Governments wracked by debt have found militias an efficient way of managing restive populations.

CENTRAL ASIA

Pakistan–Where Conspirators Become Leaders

18 Jul 2024 - History Lessons for Pakistani Generals and Political Conspirators - Pakistan is fast getting entrapped into internal intrigues, political chaos and failing systems of governance, public institutions, legal justice and accountability.

PALESTINE - ISRAEL

ICJ Says Israel’s Occupation of Palestinian Territory Is Illegal and Must End

19 Jul 2024 - The UN highest court argued that Israel's large-scale expansion of settlements amounts to annexation, a crime under international law. The vote at the International Court of Justice against Israel’s occupation was 11-4. It also voted for Israel to evacuate all settlers from the West Bank.

When Einstein Called “Fascists” Those Who Rule Israel

Netanyahu and his government are fully confirming what Einstein publicly denounced in 1948: Likud members are “fascists”, “racists”, “criminals” and “terrorists” who will inevitably lead Israel to its “final destruction”.

Israeli Strikes in Southern, Central Gaza Kill More Than 60 Palestinians, Including in ‘Safe Zone’

17 Jul 2024 - Israeli airstrikes killed more than 60 Palestinians in southern and central Gaza overnight and into yesterday, including one that struck an Israeli-declared “safe zone” crowded with thousands of displaced people.

Settled

14 Jul 2024 - How the Israeli Extreme Right Has Achieved Victory

To a Starving Orphan Who Died Alone in Rubble

19 Jul 2024 - "Tales of infants and young children dying because they can’t get enough to eat and distraught parents robbed of their dignity because they can do nothing for their kids (or themselves) are too numerous and ghastly to detail here. But just for a moment imagine that all of this was happening to your loved ones."

Israeli Soldiers Tell Story of Savage Cruelty in Gaza Hidden from Western Publics

19 Jul 2024 - Women and children are being targeted intentionally, say Israeli whistleblowers. From ground troops to commanders, the rules of war have been shredded

UNITED NATIONS

Legal Consequences of the Policies and Practices of Israel in the Occupied Palestinian Territory and East Jerusalem

19 Jul 2024 - The International Court of Justice has today given its Advisory Opinion in respect of the Legal Consequences arising from the Policies and Practices of Israel in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem.

What the Top UN Court’s Ruling Means for Israel

21 Jul 2024 - Though non-binding, the ICJ’s rulings on the ongoing Gaza genocide strip away the Jewish zionist state’s ability to obfuscate its crimes.

UNRWA Headquarters “Flattened” as Destruction of Gaza Continues

16 Jul 2024 - The massacres of Palestinian civilians by Israel over the weekend continues. Artillery, drone and airstrikes were launched. Flaunting its genocidal intentions, the IDF levelled the Gaza headquarters of the United Nations Palestinian relief agency UNRWA.

MEDIA

With Media Enamored by US Presidential Race, Israeli Massacres in Gaza Get Even Deadlier

16 Jul 2024 - "We must not lose sight of what is happening in Gaza, where an unprecedented humanitarian crisis continues to get even worse," said U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders.

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE-AI

AI Mass Surveillance at Paris Olympics

17 Jul 2024 - A Legal Scholar on the Security Boon and Privacy Nightmare - The 2024 Paris Olympics is drawing closer but it’s not just the eyes of the world that will be watching. Artificial intelligence systems will be conducting a pervasive and persistent surveillance before, during and after the Games.

INSPIRATIONAL

The Ecstasy of Eternity: Richard Jefferies on Time and Self-Transcendence

Realising that spirit, recognising my own inner consciousness, the psyche, so clearly, I cannot understand time. It is eternity now. I am in the midst of it. It is about me in the sunshine; I am in it, as the butterfly floats in the light-laden air. Nothing has to come; it is now. Now is eternity; now is the immortal life.

POETRY FORMAT

He Called the Dog Habibi

He called the dog “habibi” — my darling — as it mauled him to death while his family listened nearby.

A Grieving Heart

28 Jun Global Nonkilling Day

The Truth Lover’s Prayer

May I see the truth, especially the truth I don’t want to see.

SPIRITUALITY

Jesus Taught Bhakti Yoga

By studying the teachings that are ascribed to Jesus, we can easily recognize that the essence of what Jesus taught was an elementary level of the Vedic process of bhakti-yoga and karma-yoga.

FOOD FOR THOUGHT

Our Top Story

15 Jul 2024 - Shocking Attempt at Former President's Life

JOKE OF THE WEEK

Heavenly Problems

On their way to get married, a young Catholic couple was involved in a fatal car accident and found themselves waiting for St. Peter to process them into Heaven.

ORIGINAL LANGUAGES

(Italiano) Verità: una riflessione

16 Luglio 2024 - L’idea di Verità è rilevante per le arti/materie umanistiche quanto per le scienze. La Verità è un attributo di un’articolazione simbolica – una tesi, un testo, un dipinto, una scultura, un brano musicale – allorché confrontato con la realtà: riflette, concorda con ciò che consideriamo “realtà”?

(Français) Un Manifeste Pour l’action

13 juillet 2024 - Le blog du mois dernier sollicitait vos suggestions sur la manière de relancer un mouvement mondial pour la culture de la paix. Vous avez répondu généreusement et 10 suggestions sont imprimées au bas du blog.

(Português) Desiderata

Siga tranquilamente por entre a agitação e a pressa e lembre-se da Paz que pode haver no silêncio. Procure, o mais que possa, viver em harmonia com as pessoas ao seu redor, sem abrir mão das suas próprias convicções.

(Italiano) Genova 2001-2024. Luglio 2024. Le Iniziative

Launch of the Genova 2024 events.

SHORT VIDEO CLIPS

New Report: Biodiversity Is Life, Not an Asset Class

17 Jul 2024 - The financialization of nature by mechanisms and schemes like Biodiversity Credits and Nature Asset Companies represent the latest attempt to extend the old colonial bio-imperialism under the veneer of environmentalism.

Two North Americans Walking Down the Street and Talking about Politics

"Man that assassination thing with Trump was so freaky," said Carl while stepping over a woman in a hijab clutching a dead child to her chest.

Peace Mantra – Sarvesham Svastir Bhavatu (Music Video of the Week)

Video for the Hindu Mantra recorded by Tina Turner with footage from the documentary 'Children Beyond' released in 2011.