Aid blackmail in Palestine
Aid blackmail in Palestine - Opinion - Al Jazeera EnglishExcerpt:Once again, Palestinians are being punished for daring to exercise a choice.It happened before in 2006, when they took part in…
Peace
Parliament In Review: September 21, 2011
Despite a typically short sitting day on Wednesday, we nonetheless saw an important preview of how one of the most contentious issues on the Canadian political scene will be dealt…
Imagine
John Lennon’s anthem for peace:
The schizoid nature of the Western world: Overcoming the root paradox of Western civilization – and our own minds
The Western world is still trapped in a paradox and a self-contradiction of our own making: we are schizoid with regards to the body, the material world and to our…
In Washington, "Peace" Is a Dirty Word
They've utterly demonized the meaning of "liberal," driven "socialism" into the cellars of Lubyanka, transformed "entitlement" into something anything but deserved; and now they can no longer stand the foul…
Video: Winnipeg Lanterns for Peace 2011
Every August 6, Winnipeggers commemorate the August 1945 atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki with a Lanterns for Peace Ceremony. People come together to make and float their lanterns in…
Take Time To Renew Your Spirit
Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable. ~John F. Kennedy
Iceland Turns to the People for Constitutional Reform
Iceland is a fantastic place that the rest of the world can learn from. They get 99% of their energy from geothermal power and have perhaps the most open government…
Winnipeg Lanterns for Peace
On Monday, August 6, 1945, at 8:15 a.m., the nuclear bomb “Little Boy” was dropped on Hiroshima, Japan by an American B-29 bomber, the Enola Gay. An estimated 130,000 people…
Hard to rage against the machine…
… when looking out at a scene like this. Share and Enjoy: Trashy, Ottawa, Ontario
A Week Without Fossil Fuels
Woodland Caribou Provincial Park is a wilderness park located between Red Lake, Ontario and the Manitoba border. As Ontario’s 5th largest provincial park, covering 1.2 million acres (that’s 486,235 hectares)…
Take Time To Renew Your Spirit
An Open Letter to All Humankind Please Help Me I am thommo and I am a human being. I write this open request for help to all other human beings…
Peace, Dude (It Pays)
The Global Peace Index asks us to consider the economic value of peace. Hint: It's in the trillions.
Make Libyan war an election issue
The more we learn about the so-called humanitarian intervention in the skies above Libya, the less it looks like a war Canadians should support. Like the bogus humanitarian claims Tories…
China: Fear of its Rise is Fear of Ourselves
A recent Economist article, The dangers of a rising China, leads a 14 page report loosely discussing the dangers posed to the world by China’s eclipsing of the USA’s international…
reflections and projections
And ye, who have met with Adversity's blast, And been bow'd to the earth by its fury; To whom the Twelve Months, that have recently pass'd Were as harsh as…
serotonin uplift
I brought children into this dark world because it needed the light that only a child can bring. ~Liz ArmbrusterIt seems that with all the problems that happen as they…
Imagine . . . .
giving peace a chance.Happy Birthday, John . . . .Recommend this Post at Progressive Bloggers