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Respect Dignity of Life, Convoke Nuke Abolition Summit
Berlin, Germany, February 8, 2012In a variation of the legendary slogan "make love, not war", an eminent Buddhist philosopher is calling for a nuclear-free world in which genuine human security, sustainable development and unwavering respect for the dignity of life do not only comprise an ideal but constitute an entrenched reality.
2/8/12
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Nuke Free Middle East Meet 'A Priority Issue'
Berlin, Germany, February 8, 2012"I continue both personally and through my office to lend all possible support to formal and informal efforts and events dedicated to a timely convening of the 2012 conference. These efforts will continue," Al-Nasser told Global Perspectives, IDN's monthly magazine for international cooperation, in a wide-ranging, exclusive question-and-answer interview.
2/8/12
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Angels Invest Where Banks Dither
Berlín, Germany, January 25, 2012For innovative young folks, angels are by no means mythical beings or messengers of God as depicted in the Hebrew and Christian Bibles and the Quran. They are flesh-and-blood source of equity capital at the seed and early stage of company formation, particularly when banks are reluctant to lend. Article by Ramesh Jaura
1/25/12
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The Chinese Dragon Mutes Tibetan Counterpart
New Delhi, India, January 25, 2012The Chinese New Year celebrations formally began on January 23. China has become 4710 years old as per its lunar calendar. This year will be known as the Year of the Dragon, which symbolises strength and prosperity. The New Year celebration is one of the longest and the principal festive season for the Chinese: the official holiday itself extends over a week or two.
1/25/12
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IMF Seeks Asia's Help to Tackle Eurocrisis
Toronto, Canada, January 25, 2012When an international commission headed by Willy Brandt drew attention to global economic interdependence in its report in 1980, the world was divided between rich North and poor South. More than 3 decades later, the IMF is asking what were until recently developing countries to help stave off the European financial crisis resulting in the global economy sinking like Titanic
1/27/12
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The Time is Right for the Human Right to Peace
New York, United States, January 20, 2012No time is more appropriate than now to build the culture of peace. No social responsibility is greater nor task more significant than that of securing peace on our planet on a sustainable foundation. Today's world with its complexities and challenges is becoming increasingly more interdependent and interconnected. The sheer magnitude of it requires all of us to work together
1/21/12
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The Long Slow March to Nuke Abolition
Berlin, Germany, January 20, 2012"We want a nuclear weapons free world." More than 80 percent of people around the globe have expressed this overwhelming desire to authors of a new report. But a close look shows that very little is happening rather slowly in terms of reducing nukes and putting a halt to proliferation. This is cause of profound concern also to atomic scientists.
1/21/12
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China Spells Out a Global Recovery Plan
Paris, France, November 5, 2011Among countries that have moved from the periphery to the core, China has acquired a place of pride in a world that is no longer steered by the industrialized states of yesteryear. President Hu Jintao surfaced from the G20 summit in Cannes, as sagacious leader of a country whose ascent to the status of a new superpower was speeded up after the financial crisis in 2008.
11/5/11
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Turning Nuke Free 'Utopia' into Reality
Berlin, Germany, November 1, 2011It sounds like utopia. But it is a "concrete utopia", very much in the spirit of Ernst Bloch's philosophy and also with Nichiren Buddhism. Whereas the former visualises elimination of all forms of oppression and exploitation, the latter envisions transformation of the human spirit – which would enable culture of peace to prevail over culture of violence.
11/1/11
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'Occupy' Movements Becoming Global
Dhaka, Bangladesh, October 15, 2011By Farooque Chowdhury* Across oceans and covering continents people around the world are struggling. There are protest marches, demonstrations, occupations. It's now global, a globalization of struggle for democracy, for a decent life. It is One Earth One Humanity One Loved, as a placard in the Occupy Wall Street Movement announces.
10/15/11
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How Zenawi 'Weaponizes' Famine in Ethiopia
SAN BERNARDINO, United States, August 31, 2011"Why are Ethiopians starving again? What should the world do and not do?" These are the two enduring questions Time Magazine asked in December 21, 1987. The reply in short was couched as a question: "Is the latest famine wholly the result of cruel nature, or are other, man-made forces at work that worsen the catastrophe?" Something that should strike as déjà vu 24 years later.
8/31/11
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Movement for Nuke Test Ban Gathers Momentum
Geneva, Switzerland, August 30, 2011Voluntary moratoriums on nuclear weapon tests are not enough. Member states that have not yet ratified the United Nations-backed Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT) should therefore urgently do so.
8/30/11
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China Alone Abides by Commitments to World's Poorest
Montevideo, Uruguay, August 6, 2011The World Trade Organization member countries are moving towards the Eighth Ministerial Conference in Doha next December, again with no concrete results, even on issues relating to least-developed Countries (LDCs), recognized by the member countries' ambassadors in the informal meeting of last July 26.
8/6/11
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Turkey Taming Omnipotent Military
New Delhi, India, August 5, 2011In an unprecedented move, top four military commanders in Turkey stepped down from their posts on 29 July 2011. Chief of General Staff Gen. Işık Koşaner, Land Forces Commander Gen. Erdal Ceylanoğlu, Naval Forces Commander Adm. Eşref Uğur Yiğit and Air Forces Commander Gen. Hasan Aksay asked to be retired with immediate effect.
8/5/11
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Pakistan Rock Firm Against New Nuclear Treaty
Toronto, Canada, August 2, 2011Pakistan is standing like a rock in the surf resisting growing international pressure to endorse a global treaty that would ban production of fissile material used as fuel for nuclear weapons. Reiterating its adamant opposition, Pakistan has warned that it would boycott any process to negotiate a U.S.-backed treaty outside the deadlocked UN Conference on Disarmament (CD).
8/2/11
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Ethiopia's World Heritage Site Tribes Threatened
Nairobi, Kenya, July 30, 2011While millions in East Africa are caught in the cobweb of a devastating drought that has spread its tentacles across Somalia, Kenya and Ethiopia, the government in Addis Ababa is snatching some of Ethiopia's most productive farmland from local tribes and leasing it to foreign companies to grow and export food.
7/30/11
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Hamas-Fatah Reconciliation Key to Statehood
Gaza, Palestinian Territories, July 24, 2011By Bernhard Schell As September draws closer and the Palestine Authority prepares to achieve statehood as well as full membership of the United Nations, a new report is calling upon Fatah and Hamas rivals to take necessary steps to implement the Egyptian sponsored reconciliation agreement and install a Palestinian leadership able to reach and carry out peace with Israel.
7/24/11
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Chinese Communist Party On to New Pastures at 90
Mumbai, India, July 14, 2011When you don't acknowledge China's stupendous achievements, what you find is a country that has little to show and still far to go. When you don't see the political foundations of economic policies that freed the vast majority of dirt poor and backward Chinese from awesome feudal inequalities, it is taken to be the success of capitalist impulses alone.
7/14/11
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Pugwash and Germany Strive for Nuke-Free World
Berlin, Germany, July 11, 2011On the same day as Germany assumed the presidency of the UN Security Council on July 1, some 300 current and former policy makers and experts from 43 countries launched the 59th Pugwash Conference on Science and World Affairs on 'European Contributions to Nuclear Disarmament and Conflict Resolution' with a special day-long symposium focusing on NATO-Russia relationship.
7/11/11
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Rule of Law Rules Women Out
Madrid, Spain, July 8, 2011They give life almost in every way – they deliver generation after generation; they plant seeds and grow crops, feed their families and sell food in rural markets; they bring water and heat and sacrifice themselves for the sake of their families. Yet, they are the victims of a nearly invisible, silent crime as millions of them die every year from preventable causes.
7/8/11
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