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Turkey Provokes Russia with Shoot-down

25.11.2015 | www.consortiumnews.com/2015/11/24/turkey-provokes-russia-with-shoot-down/ Exclusive: Turkey appears to have deliberately shot down a Russian warplane as a provocation designed to escalate tensions between NATO and Russia, a ploy that seems to have sucked in President Obama as he tries to look tough against Russia to appease his neocon critics, writes Robert Parry. (Update: Russia says one airman saved.) By Robert P...

Day of protest against British bombing of Syria: Saturday 28 November

25.11.2015 | Protests will take place around the country against the imminent threat of bombing of Syria by British forces this Saturday. This is in response to the proposed vote in Parliament by David Cameron which is likely to take place within the next week. The vote is more likely following the terrible events in Paris. Yet this bombing will not stop terror attacks. Stop the War is opposed to this military response. There is alr...

Paris Attacks: Violence is the problem, never the solution

24.11.2015 | The terrorist attack that took place on November 13th in Paris is another act of violence against civilians, another act of violence against all Humanity. It clearly shows that anyone and in any place in the world can become the victim of brutal violence powered by hatred, intolerance, discrimination, fanaticism and vengeance. This new massacre cannot be treated in isolation because it is connected to others of a simila...

The battle between neoliberal and democratic values

24.11.2015 | A delegation of Humanists was recently invited to Greece in order to give two presentations at the TEDx event in Anogeia on the island of Crete, they also participated in meetings with members of the Greek national and local government. Antonio Carvallo, former General Secretary of the Humanist International, was among the delegation and one evening in an event discussing the crisis situation in Greece he developed this ana...

EuroMarches rejects NATO military exercises

24.11.2015 | During the reception of EuroMarches in Plaza Cibeles with a musical spectacle put on by Solfónica (an orchestra of 50 young musicians and 130 popular actors) there was a dominant cry: “Another Europe is possible!” under the emblematic banner on the city council building façade with the slogan “Welcome Refugees”. On the fourth day, a citizen’s assembly took place in the Queen Sofia Museum Square, with 6 presentations abo...

“The man who saved the world” 32 years ago. Jeremy is right.

24.11.2015 | Jeremy Corbyn, long standing antinuclear campaigner and Member of the UK Parliament, now Leader of the Labour Party, answered in an interview that he would not press the Red Button. It unleashed a storm inside and outside his party, he was called “unhelpful” and his credentials to be in charge of the security of the nation put in doubt. He would not start a nuclear holocaust, and neither did Stanislaw Petrov in 1983 when a...

Silo’s revolutionary opus

24.11.2015 | Pressenza marks five years since Silo, the Argentinean author, nonviolent revolutionary and spiritual guide, passed away on the 16th of September 2010 at his home in Mendoza, Argentina, with this tribute by our columnist, Javier Tolcachier. Asked by a journalist back in 1994, “What would you like to appear in your epitaph?” Silo replied, “He was a good person, but a bad writer.” Such a definition, while pointing ou...

NATO wars: the real target is Europe

24.11.2015 | The same facts, a different narrative The belt of civil wars festering on Europe’s borders is not accidental but has been intentionally built since the fall of the Berlin Wall. The unilateral dismantling of the bi polar world which prevailed since 1945 by the former Soviet Union had massive strategic consequences for USA and Europe… and the rest of the world of course. The justification as protectors of the “free...

Hiroshima and Nagasaki: Remembering the Power of Peace

24.11.2015 | By Junichi Sato* 6 August 2015 – The fight against nuclear is steeped in Greenpeace history. On the 70th anniversary of the Hiroshima bombings we’re reminded of the consequences of nuclear energy and the people’s movement to campaign for nuclear disarmament to create a safer and sustainable future for the people of Japan and the world. Seventy years ago, the world’s first atomic bombs were dropped on the Japanese c...

Greek Referendum: the possibility to stop being slaves

24.11.2015 | Foreign debt is the mechanism used to enslave countries and steal their wealth, through some local “supervisors”, let’s call them governors. In reality, with little energy spent buying, removing and putting in place supervisors, they have controlled the population of the entire planet, treating them like slaves. To this procedure, they add to the scenario – to make it appear a bit more sophisticated and less brutal...

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