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The Suicidal War on Nature Continues Unabated – International Mother Earth Day

By Baher Kamal

By Baher Kamal* MADRID, Apr 20 2022 (IPS) – The gloomy picture is drawn from indisputable scientific conclusions and should be already known by everybody, in particular by decision-makers, whether they are politicians… or rather not. Oceans filling with plastic and turning…

20 April 2022 · 4 min read

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António Guterres urged to take lead in securing peace in Ukraine or risk future of UN

By Patrick Wintour — The Guardian

By Patrick Wintour* – The Guardian Former UN officials say body could be doomed if secretary general does not play a bigger role in mediating for peace in Ukraine A group of more than 200 former senior UN officials have written to the UN secretary general, António Guterres…

19 Apr 2022 · 3 min read

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Powerful nuclear power

By Nadia Batok — Wall Street International Magazine

By Nadia Batok* – Wall Street International Magazine Balancing the risks and rewards Man has developed nuclear energy as an alternative source of clean and cheap energy to fossil fuels. Leading organizations propose to strengthen the role of nuclear energy as a future less…

19 Apr 2022 · 10 min read

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Now Is the Time for Nonalignment and Peace

By Roger McKenzie and Vijay Prashad

By Roger McKenzie and Vijay Prashad (*) – Globetrotter, Independent Media Institute War is an ugly part of the human experience. Everything about it is hideous.

18 Apr 2022 · 5 min read

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High Cost of Debt is Crippling Developing Nations: How can we Bridge the Finance Divide?

By Navid Hanif

By Navid Hanif* UNITED NATIONS, Apr 18 2022 (IPS) – As the world is rocked by a confluence of crises, the global economic outlook for 2022 is becoming ever more uncertain and fragile. Prospects for sustainable development for all and achieving the Sustainable…

18 Apr 2022 · 6 min read

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America’s hypocrisy over Ukraine and ‘spheres of influence’

By Katrina vanden Heuvel* – The Washington Post The Russian invasion of Ukraine “is in many ways bigger than Russia, it’s bigger than Ukraine,” State Department spokesman Ned Price recently declared. “There are principles that are at stake here … Each and every country has…

15 Apr 2022 · 5 min read

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APPEAL FOR PEACE IN UKRAINE

The UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN)* A message to all UN Member States and Leaders of the United Nations from Members of the Leadership Council of the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network and Members of the SDSN Community The war in…

15 Apr 2022 · 9 min read

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Sweden and Finland Joining NATO Would Make the World Less Safe

By Amy Goodman — Democracy Now!

By Amy Goodman* – Democracy Now! GUEST: Swedish Peace Activist Agnes Hellström, president of the Swedish Peace and Arbitration Society.

14 Apr 2022 · 7 min read

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Hungary’s Viktor Orban Could Have Smeared, Defeated Jesus Christ: Rival

David Brennan* – Newsweek Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s electoral victory earlier this month proves that he cannot be defeated at the ballot box, his rival Peter Marki-Zay told Newsweek as the country’s opposition parties lick their wounds and prepare for a…

14 Apr 2022 · 6 min read

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From Mosul to Raqqa to Mariupol, Killing Civilians is a Crime

By Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies

By Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. Davies (*) – CODEPINK Americans have been shocked by the death and destruction of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, filling our screens with bombed buildings and dead bodies lying in the street.

13 Apr 2022 · 10 min read