Let Us Eat Cake!
They attribute the famous quote ' Let them eat cake' to Marie Antoinette, Queen Consort of King Louis XIV of France. Apparently, she was told that the peasants did not…
World
Capitalism Won the US Election
by Ellen Isaacs and Karyn Pomerantz I must admit that we were surprised at the outcome of the election. We thought that Trump’s overt racism against so many groups and…
Bernie Would Have Won
There are a million surface-level reasons for Kamala Harris’s loss and systematic underperformance in pretty much every county and among nearly every demographic group. She is part of a deeply…
Trump’s Victory: Why Blame Only Kamala Harris for Democrats’ Defeat?
Defying speculations and “headlines” about this being a tight, close-fight, full of suspense as well as tension, Republican candidate Donald Trump has won the White House race with a good…
The Morning After, A Hard Pill to Swallow
Nobody said democracy was an easy form of government and the quest to maintain it is quite realistically described as organized chaos. The challenge of course is that since our…
Journalists continue to face slaughtering globally
As the year 2024 approaches the penultimate month, reports over the killing of journalists and other media employees from different parts of the globe continue to be pouring. Shockingly, most…
European Union’s Anti-Chinese Electric Vehicles Policy: A Costly Blow to European Consumers
The European Union (EU) advocates for a free-market economy and expects countries in Asia, Africa, and Latin America, along with their governments, to provide full support and platforms for European…
One World, Equal People—Philosophical and Practical Aspects
We live in a complicated world of about 200 countries many of which cannot get on with their neighbors or other countries, resulting in avoidable problems and violence. The population…
Crude capitalism: How oil greases the wheels of the world market
Nearly four decades ago, a large team of scientists from around the world launched a major global research programme called the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme (IGBP). Their goal was to study…
Many-sided Peace Initiative Now Can Give Results around Christmas, or even Earlier
The year 2024 has been a deeply worrying year so far—with the 11th month starting-- as human suffering caused by war and conflict remained at very high levels throughout the…
Election Day at Last, Now What?
With a sigh of relief for many and more than an ounce of anxiety, election day has finally arrived. For many Americans the usual long dragged-out presidential campaign has evoked…
Limited Political Choices in Capitalist Democracies
The advanced capitalist countries—including the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, Japan, and several Western European nations—have failed to offer their citizens a genuine range of choices in terms of…
A Sudden Strike of Israel “Operation Days of Repentance”: A Historical and Spiritual Examination
Abstract In the age brimming with technology and the clamour of enmity is growing each other has leading the man into unprecedent environment. So the recent attack of Israel named…
Tunisia: Court rulings perpetuate repression, violate country’s obligations to protect freedom of expression
Geneva - The unjust court rulings against human rights defenders in Tunisia—including lawyers, media professionals, political activists, and opposition figures—should raise alarm bells. The rulings follow a campaign of arrests by…
November 4, 2024: The Day Before
On October 23, Nancy Pelosi came to Harvard Square in Cambridge, MA (my old hometown) and spoke at the First Parish Church. Her talk was organized by The Harvard Book…
From Great Peace Prospects to Grave World War Risks– World’s Perilous Journey from 1990 to 2024
With the disintegration of the Soviet Union the end of the cold war was widely heralded, and United Nation agencies published reports on the peace dividend now available as funds…
The Hardening of Washington for the Election, Aftermath and Beyond
As the 2024 presidential “too close to call “election draws to a close, crews across the city have been busy erecting steel fencing and barricades along with plywood walls to…
What the Air Force Doesn’t Want Us to Notice on Election Night
Much significance will happen at the end of Election Day, and a countdown will begin at 11:00 p.m. PDT on November 5th. While everyone’s attention will be on who our…
Why Do Countries Prosper?
CAMBRIDGE – Each fall, a telephone call from Stockholm launches one or a few scholars to international fame with the bestowal of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences –…
BRICS is a ray of hope for peace and just international economic order – sans commitment to nuclear weapons abolition
The declaration of the recently ended 16th summit of the BRICS (now extended BRICS) has several points for which the developing and least developed countries have been aspiring for many…
How to be Human in Tyranny of a War Culture?
The Desiderata poem (by anonymous, Baltimore Church, 1854), tells what rationally sounds plausible: Speak your truth quietly and clearly; and listen to others, even to the dull and ignorant;they too…
Opposing Genocide at the American Public Health Association Convention 2024
Here is an AI-generated podcast based on the article The American Public Health Association (APHA) states that its mission is to “champion optimal, equitable health and well-being for all.” That…
In Response to Michael Albert’s “Answering Critics” of November 2nd
Here is an AI-generated podcast based on the article Michael Albert has argued at https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/answering-critics/, cogently in my opinion, that people who live in swing states and have yet to…
Peace Negotiations to End Wars Most Important Just Now, but Durable Peace Needs a Lot More
Here is an AI-generated podcast based on the article The peace initiative which is needed the most just now on the basis of urgency consists of a series of negotiations…
Pump, Dump and Donald Trump
"How can the US population even consider making Donald Trump its President, and that too for a second time? It's a question on the lips and minds of millions around…
Fukushima: Stumbling Through Deconstruction of Reactor Meltdowns
Here is an AI-Generated Podcast based on the article Melted fuel still vexing test extraction methods Thirteen years on from the catastrophic triple explosions and reactor meltdowns at Fukushima-Daiichi in…
Reason Wounded, Hope Denied—World Leadership Response in Difficult Times
Here is an AI-generated podcast based on the article The most important and unprecedented aspect of world in recent decades has been that for the first time there are human…
Poll of Muslim-American Voters Presidential Preferences Released
Only days before one of the most pivotal presidential elections in US history takes place, CAIR (Council on American-Islamic Relations) released its national poll, “Final CAIR 2024 Election Poll of…
Korean American Peace Activist Christine Ahn Barred From South Korea
[Honolulu, HI] — Women Cross DMZ is deeply concerned by the recent decision by the South Korean government to prohibit Women Cross DMZ Founder and Co-Director Christine Ahn, a longtime and prominent…
Some Constituents Disturbed By U.S. Congress Candidate Suhas Subramanyam’s Pro-Modi Donors
Over 30 South Asian American constituents of Virginia’s 10th congressional district rallied in Ashburn on the evening of October 28 to protest candidate Suhas Subramanyam’s receipt of donations from out-of-state…
The Black-Lives-(Don’t)-Matter President
Donald Trump was the worst president for Black people in the modern era, if not the nation’s history. Given a life of unremitting racial animus, under no circumstances should he…
A No-Win Dilemma for US Peace Voters
by Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J.S. Davies On October 24th, a U.S. presidential candidate told an interviewer, “Our day one agenda… also includes picking up the phone and telling Bibi Netanyahu…
UNComfortably Numb!
Sailing back listening to Pink Floyd's classic Comfortably Numb.The mood of melancholia is mixed with a musical yearning for something seemingly out of my reach. As the song ends I…
Virtuous, Smug and Venal: British Electoral Interference in the US
The British cannot help themselves. They are a meddling island people who conquered huge swathes of the earth in a fictional fit of absentmindedness and remain haughty for having done…
Cross-Cultural Comparative Politics: Social Science or Cold War Propaganda?
OrientationWhat is politics? Nine Questions for Determining What is PoliticsIn Part I of my article Seven Theories of Politics I posed ten questions for narrowing down what the range for defining what…
Pennsylvania’s Undecideds
If you’re like many of my friends, I know what you’re thinking: OMG, how is it even possible that half the country is going to vote for that guy? And…
India-China Cooperation and the End of QUAD’s Imperialist Agenda
The simmering border conflict between India and China in the Himalayan region has come to an end, with both nations committing to cooperate in resolving their border disputes. Both countries…
Israel Attacks Iran
Israel—which is already waging war on Gaza and Lebanon—said its military struck targets in and near Iran's capital Tehran early Saturday, while explosions believed to be Israeli attacks were also reported in…
Farmers of the World Must Unite to Oppose Big Business Interests That Are Devastating Farming and Food Systems
The farming and food system must be based on a very large number of small or reasonably sized farmers (including family farms) and small agro-processing units, producing healthy food in…
Why Did Hezbollah’s Hassan Nasrallah Support US/NATO War on Libya?
Friday post lunchtime, March 2011, and I turned on my television in time to catch Hezbollah’s Hassan Nasrallah’s Friday speech on PressTV carried live from Lebanon. With an english translation…
America’s Irreplaceable Immigrants
Every day when breakfast is served, Americans come face to face with the impact of immigrant workers without whom breakfast items would be too expensive for everyday consumption and/or if…
“Don’t Destroy What you Want to Inherit”: Peacebuilding Holds the Key to Building a Strong United States of America
“Don’t destroy what you want to inherit.” This insightful advice is from Ebrahim Rasool, former South African ambassador to the United States and prominent anti-apartheid activist and peacebuilder. These wise words…
Covid-19 And The Explosive Pfizer Documents
A time of fear and panic Coronaviruses are a group of related viruses which cause disease in mammals and birds. The SARS-CoV-2 virus manifests as Covid-19 disease in humans.…
The World of Arabs
The world of Arabs (the WoA), as a distinctive part of the globe, is of extreme significance for both global politics and the global economy. On the other hand, this…
Despite the Western media’s focus on Putin hosting BRICS summit, this is about China’s political rise in a multipolar world and US decline
President Xi Jinping is visiting Kazan, Russia between 22-24 October to attend the annual BRICS ‘plus’ summit, a grouping of emerging economies founded by Brazil, Russia, India and China in…
The Global War on Children
“War is not healthy for children and other living things,” reads a poster titled “Primer” created by the late artist Lorraine Schneider for an art show at New York’s Pratt…
Trump’s Anti-Immigrant Fearmongering Exposes Extent of Fascism’s Rise in 2024
Stoked by vitriolic political rhetoric spread by the right and increasingly left unchallenged by leading Democratic politicians, the normalization of a hostile and violent attitude toward immigrants is spreading. Under…
Canada Inquiries Expose Extreme Injustices to indigenous People Including ‘Cultural Genocide’ and Violence against Women
“For over a century , the central goals of Canada’s Aboriginal policy were to eliminate Aboriginal governments, ignore Aboriginal rights, terminate the treaties, and, through a process of assimilation, cause…
2024 Nobel Prizes: Nuclear Disarmament, Korean Literature, and the Global Impact of Institutional Quality
The 2024 Nobel Peace Prize is expected to reignite discussions around nuclear disarmament, emphasizing the devastating effects of nuclear weapons and the need for further steps toward their elimination. The…
How US Taxpayers Helped Elon Musk Become the Richest Man on Earth
Once upon a time, here in the United States, we taxed the rich. Significantly. Today, by contrast, we’re actively enhancing their fortunes. Including the biggest personal fortune of them all, the quarter-trillion-dollar…
The Choice this Election is between Corporate and Oligarchic Power
There is a civil war within capitalism. Kamala Harris is the face of corporate power. Donald Trump is the mascot of the oligarchs. Either way, we lose. The choice in…
Research on inequality relevant to understand trend- Political institutions’ role vital in economic growth
The three US based economists who got Nobel Prize for 2024 for their research on historical economic inequality among post-colonial states colonized by Europeans have laid focus on inclusive socio-political…
Nuclear Fever: War Mongering on Iran
The recent string of exaggerated military successes – or at least as they are understood to be – places Israel in a situation it has been previously used to: prowess…
USA and its allies must not use double standards if success against terrorism is to be achieved
One of the issues on which consensus should be created and can be treated at world level is that terrorism in all its forms should be firmly rejected. However this…
CA’s new law: ADL genocide deniers to train teachers on genocide
by Said Morrison and Marcy Winograd Not long after Wikipedia’s volunteer editors rejected the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) as a credible source on Israel/Palestine and antisemitism, California Governor Gavin Newsom signed…
Up to 21,000 Dying Daily From War-Fueled Hunger
An Oxfam report published Wednesday estimates that war-fueled hunger is likely killing as many as 21,000 people per day in dozens of countries as parties to global conflicts weaponize starvation…
Sir Keir Starmer: Redefining Labour or Abandoning Its Values?
The Labour Party and its leader, Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer, are highly unpopular, much like the previous PM, Mr. Rishi Sunak, and his Conservative Party. The latest YouGov poll…
Han Kang, Nobel Prize and Triumph of Idealism
South Korean Nobel laureate Han Kang has declined to celebrate and refused to address a press conference after winning the 2024 Nobel Prize in Literature, citing the deaths, destitution, pain,…
High Irony–How a country that has been fighting very destructive wars for dominance is losing its soft power for peaceful leadership
It used to be said for great diplomacy that it can achieve those results peacefully which cannot be achieved by highly destructive wars. However the most powerful countries appear to…
Nihon Hidankyo’s Nobel Peace Prize Win Could Not Have Come at a More Important Moment
With the world, our species, facing the greatest danger of nuclear apocalypse since the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, this year's Peace Prize will refocus world attention on the urgency of…
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