The right column is sadly familiar; add more recent cases. The left column also carries an element of sadness but nothing really radical; more like common…
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There was what may have been the most violent white US massacre ever; 59 killed from the 32nd floor of a Las Vegas hotel. The assassin…
Speech given at the reception for the Peace March 6 Aug 1981, UNESCO, Paris; and for the Perugia-Assisi Peace March 24-27 Sep 1981 Ten Proposals for…
Freedom of expression can be severely curtailed by taboo zones in any country, outruling, sometimes also outlawing the unspeakable. Sexuality was, and still is in some…
“Pentagon Study Declares American Empire Is ‘Collapsing,’” is the title of an essay by Nafeez Ahmed, analyzing the study. Sounds interesting. His subtitle: “Report demands massive…
Hardanger Academy for Peace Development and Environment, 30 Jul 2017 These are the goals of the United Nations; the Hardanger Academy in little Jondal, Norway (population…
Much is happening. And not happening. Thus, there is no war in or over North Korea, with USA or anybody else. And there will not be…
Alfaz, Spain It is customary for Spaniards to add the word “crisis” to the name of the country. They are not alone in that, it may…
This column has advocated a 1-2-6-20 solution: 1 Palestine fully recognized by Israel; a 2-state solution with borders according to international law; in a 6-state Middle…
Jondal, Norway – July 2017 Norway is divided very clearly into three parts: the North and the two parts of the South, the West and the…
Why should anybody be interested in Norway that little, stretched-out country, that way to the North, to the North Pole? Because just like we can learn…
Like the feminist revolution, this one may be said to have originated in USA. The two are related. There is a long, painful history. From use…
Let us start with an example. The senior author bought an apartment in a nice housing complex in the little town of Manassas, Prince William County,…
There are many of them–of different kinds–in world geography. We can try to identify the characteristics of their peacefulness. Or we can start by identifying belligerent…
“Why War?” was the title of an interchange of letters between Sigmund Freud and Albert Einstein, starting with Einstein’s letter to Freud dated “Caputh near Potsdam…
Humanity has had and has big projects. Mastery of nature is one, still going on. Middle range phenomena have been mastered, but not the micro level…
Keynote, World Futures Studies Federation Conference – Jondal, Norway 7 Jun 2017 West of Jondal is Torsnes, named after the Nordic war god Thor with his…
It is amazing. The United Nations have decades, years, weeks and days, dedicated to more values, goals and concerns than most of us are aware of. …
A lot is happening. As in “Trump’s First Hundred Days of War Crimes” (CouterPunch 19 May 2017), breaking international law as if it did not exist,…
Pamplona, Spain Spain is in a process that will take some time, from “España: Una, Grande, Libre” to “España: Una Comunidad de naciones“—“Spain: One, Great, Free”…
A key slogan during the student revolt in Paris May 1968, soon 50 years ago, was Imagination au pouvoir! Bring imagination to power! We were there,…