11 Oct, 2024
If Only Some Lives Matter, No Lives Matter
If Only Some Lives Matter, No Lives Matter by Robert C. Koehler 902 words Colonialism is hardly a thing of...
11 Oct, 2024
28 Jul, 2024
Two Wars with No Way Out
Two Wars with No Way Out by Mel Gurtov 1664 words People involved in conflict resolution often say that every...
5 Jun, 2024
The Elections-Democracy Gap
The Elections-Democracy Gap by Mel Gurtov 824 words South Africa, India, and Mexico just held general elections. Britain will hold...
5 May, 2024
India, Israel, and America’s Double Standard
India, Israel, and America’s Double Standard by Mel Gurtov 866 words India is hailed as the world’s biggest democracy, and...
22 Feb, 2024
When Nukes Are Illegal Only Criminals Will Have Nukes
When Nukes Are Illegal Only Criminals Will Have Nukes by Kary Love 876 words Dangnabbit, that’s where we are at. ...
4 Dec, 2023
Time to Negotiate an End to the Ukraine War
Time to Negotiate an End to the Ukraine War by Jerry Tetalman 683 words The war in Ukraine has destabilized and...
25 Jun, 2023
Modi’s Game, and Ours
Modi’s Game, and Ours by Mel Gurtov 788 words China on Their Minds President Biden welcomed India’s prime minister Narendra...
18 Mar, 2023
Nonviolent Response to Ukraine war
Nonviolent Response to Ukraine war by Peter Klotz-Chamberlin 605 words Response to the war in Ukraine is not limited to...
9 Aug, 2021
Pegasus and the global surveillance business
We have just learned about a powerful spyware known as Pegasus, manufactured and leased by the Israeli company NSO Group and capable of extracting just about every kind of data stored in a smart phone...
28 Jun, 2021
Nationalism on the Decline
Although, beginning in about 2015, nationalist political parties made enormous advances in countries around the world, more recently they have been on the wane.
14 Jun, 2020
From Rage to Reform
“George Floyd is becoming the Emmett Till of the 21st Century. The ongoing, passionate, widespread, and no longer violent demonstrations...
24 Mar, 2020
The World’s Major Military and Economic Powers Find Happiness Elusive
“Long before the advent of the coronavirus pandemic left people around the world desperate for survival, a popular assumption emerged...
27 Feb, 2020
Embarrassing moments from Trump’s visit to India
“Donald Trump abroad never ceases to entertain with his ignorance and misstatements. As India’s leaders learned from Trump’s previous visits...
12 Apr, 2016
Ground Zero Is Everywhere
“The philosopher Krishnamurti once asserted that we are each totally responsible for the whole world. Global climate change, among other...
5 Apr, 2016
Gandhi’s Salt: How a Fistful of Mud and Seawater Shook the British Empire
“On April 6th, 1930 at 6:30 a.m. after morning prayers, Mohandas K. Gandhi raised a lump of salty mud and...