Amy Goodman* – Democracy Now! Last Saturday, the final day of the Jewish holiday of Passover, 19-year-old white supremacist John T. Earnest allegedly walked into the Chabad of Poway synagogue in California, raised his AR-style assault rifle and began shooting.… Continue Reading
By Asoka Bandarage* – Asia Times More than 300 people have died and many more were injured by the barbaric attacks against Christian churches and five-star hotels in Sri Lanka on Easter Sunday. The government has warned that there are more explosives… Continue Reading
By Ramesh Jaura* BERLIN | TOKYO (IDN) – In the run-up to the forthcoming round of crucial talks on the non-proliferation of nuclear weapons, Buddhist philosopher, educator and a staunch advocate of nuclear disarmament, Dr. Daisaku Ikeda, has called for… Continue Reading
By Randy Boyagoda* – The New York Times A country once split by ethnic hatreds is now a target for Islamic terrorism. TORONTO — The series of suicide attacks on churches and hotels in Sri Lanka on Easter Sunday, which… Continue Reading
BY JANE EISNER * – TIME The results of Israel’s election on April 9 have been interpreted as a victory for the status quo: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud party won as many seats as its most serious rival but is best… Continue Reading
By Sivananthi Thanenthiran* This article of opinión is part of a series on the role of civil society organisations (CSOs), which was the focus of International Civil Society Week (ICSW), sponsored by CIVICUS, in Belgrade, April 8-12 KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia,… Continue Reading
By Rabbi Michael Lerner* Note from Tikkun: Rabbi Lerner’s article below appeared as the lead article on Salon this morning. You can read it below. He is happy to read your responses (send them to him at Letters@tikkun.org). Israel’s election… Continue Reading
By Haider A. Khan Apr 2019 – According to UN investigators in late 2018 and early January 2019, genocide against the Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar has hardly stopped . All objective reports indicate that the government is demonstrating by its… Continue Reading
By Tharanga Yakupitiyage UNITED NATIONS, Apr 3 2019 (IPS) – Young Rohingya refugees are now facing new hardships as the Bangladeshi government cracks down on their education and future opportunities. Since January, the Government of Bangladesh has ordered the expulsion… Continue Reading
By Claire Provost and Mary Fitzgerald (*) – openDemocracy MEPs call for action as openDemocracy analysis reveals ‘shocking’ flows of cash crossing the Atlantic to push ultra-conservative agendas 27 March 2019 (openDemocracy)* — US Christian right ‘fundamentalists’ linked to the Trump administration and Steve… Continue Reading
Suzanne Moore – The Guardian The New Zealand prime minister has reacted to the Christchurch shootings with steel, compassion and absolute clarity. And she has given us a vision of a better world Out of the horror inflicted by those… Continue Reading
By Jen Kirby* – VOX Media The Brazilian president made the case for his nickname “Trump of the Tropics” Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro and US President Donald Trump stood side by side in the White House Rose Garden on Tuesday,… Continue Reading
By Roberto Savio* March 2019, Rome – There is a huge debate on anti-Semitism. I think we need to make a systematic analysis that makes the problem simple and clear. Obviously, the subject is very complex and produces so many… Continue Reading
By John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service* We Are On the Brink of a Disaster What would Mahatma Gandhi say about the threat of war between India and Pakistan, which has brought the two nations and the world to… Continue Reading
By M. Nadarajah and Jomo Kwame Sundaram (*) BHUBANESWAR, India and KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 26 2019 (IPS) – Do politicians’ words matter? Since becoming US President, Donald J Trump has dismissed his opponents and others he does not like as… Continue Reading
Editorial As the first leader of the Catholic church to visit the Arabian peninsula, Francis knows his contact with Muslims will be as important as the mass he hosts for the Christian minority Pope Francis’s visit to the United Arab… Continue Reading
By Mohammad Zaman* – The Daily Star Jan 2019 (The Daily Star, Bangladesh) – To date, much has been written and said about the Rohingya crisis. The regime in Naypyidaw has literally flouted all international laws and evaded pressures from… Continue Reading
By Leila Yasmine Khan and Daud Khan (*) AMSTERDAM/ROME, Jan 2019 (IPS) – The Rohingya are a minority community living in Rakhine State in Myanmar. The Muslim Rohingya are considered intruders into Buddhist Myanmar – illegal immigrants from bordering Bangladesh.… Continue Reading
By Ernesto Londoño – The New York Times RIO DE JANEIRO — President Jair Bolsonaro of Brazil, who has compared indigenous communities living in protected lands to animals in zoos, took a major step toward undermining the rights of indigenous… Continue Reading
Opinion, by Jerry Coyne* – Newsweek As the West becomes more and more secular, and the discoveries of evolutionary biology and cosmology shrink the boundaries of faith, the claims that science and religion are compatible grow louder. If you’re a… Continue Reading
