World

The Rise and Rise of Green Politics: Alongside the flag-waving surge of right wing and extreme right wing groups, political parties concerned with environmental issues are on the rise. Read more
From Porn to Tweets and Online Bullying; The Age of Abuse: As social divisions deepen, polarities spread, extremists rise, anger and abuse grows, is growing, is being legitimized, excused. Read more
Breaking the Spiral of Hate and Intolerance: Valeria Martinez Ramirez was 23 months old when she drowned in the Rio Grande with her father Oscar in June this year. Read more
Maitreya:” Share and Save the World“: Amidst deepening global divisions and intolerance ‘Project Maitreya’ plan to build 1,000 statues of Maitreya Buddha around the world, with the aim, they say, of inculcating an atmosphere of ‘loving kindness’; Read more
A World Divided by Ideologies: Six-year-old Kate was playing with her younger brother, each had a Frisbee, which they threw as far as they could. After each round of throws Kate declared that she had ‘won’, having thrown the Frisbee further than her three-year-old sibling. Read more
Rising Politics of Intolerance and the Need for Unity: Over the last 20 years extreme right-wing groups have been on the rise throughout the world.  Read more
Transitional Times and the Appearance of a New Normal:  By any measure these are extraordinary times, revolutionary times in which a ‘new normal’ is evolving as existing systems and practices crumble. Read more
Young people lead the charge to change to world: We are living amongst the largest generation of young people in history; young people who are better educated, better informed and more widely connected than ever before. Read more
Give Children the Vote, Strengthen Democracy: In December 2018 David Runciman, Head of Politics at Cambridge University, made the radical proposal that children as young as six should be allowed to vote in elections to deal with the age bias in contemporary democracies. Read more
A Global Battle of Values and Ideals: With each day that passes the conflict and animosity between the conservative reactionary forces and the global movement for progressive change becomes more acute, uglier and increasingly dangerous. Read more
Tribal Nationalism vs Global Unity: Change, discontent and uncertainty are some of the most prominent characteristics of the times. Read more
Sharing is Key to a New Economic and Democratic Order: In order to meet the colossal challenges of the time, fundamental change to the socio-economic order is needed. Read more
Priorities of the Time: Peace: For as long as anyone can remember violence and conflict have been part of daily life: humanity appears incapable of living peacefully together. Read more
Alcohol: Why do we drink?: I had known John for 40 years on and off; just over a year ago he died. He was 62 and homeless, an alcoholic who over the course of four years or so had drunk himself to death. Read more
UFO’s: Proven ‘Beyond Reasonable Doubt’: In December 2017 the New York Times (NYT) revealed details of a hitherto secret defense program set up to investigate reports of unidentified flying objects (UFOs). Read more
Education and the Mental Health Epidemic: Across the western world June is exam time in schools; in Britain, written tests taken halls of silence and tension have triggered a mini-epidemic of anxiety rooted conditions. Read more
The Shame of Injustice: Poverty is the greatest cause of death and illness globally. Read more
Crisis in Consciousness: Change and the Individual: Our society is besieged by a series of interconnected crises. Millions of people around the world know this and are crying out for change. Read more
The Urgent Need for Cooperation & Unity: The natural instinct of human beings is towards cooperation and sharing. Read more
The Tragedy of Forced Displacement: It constitutes the greatest humanitarian crisis since the Second World War affecting huge numbers of people and demanding all that is best in us. Read more
Wasted Lives: The Worldwide Tragedy of Youth Suicide: The pressures of modern life are colossal; for young people — those under 25 years of age — they are perhaps greater than at any other time. Read more
From Pseudo-Democracy to Real Participation: Imagine a country run along truly democratic lines. In such a mythical land, what would be the role of the politician. Read more
The Poison of Commercialization and Social Injustice: In cities and towns from New Delhi to New York the socio-political policies that led to the Grenfell Tower disaster in west London are being repeated. Read more
Europe’s Shameful Refugee Policy: This time of year Mediterranean beaches are the destinations of choice for many European holidaymakers. Read more
Nuclear Weapons: Barbaric tools of Insecurity: The existence of nuclear weapons is an ugly symbol of the violent consciousness that plagues humanity. Read more
Grotesque inequality and Anxiety: Anxiety and depression are at unprecedented levels worldwide and the numbers are growing. Read more
The Omnipresent Pressure to Conform: It was the school holidays and there were lots of teenagers in my local park. Read more
The Revolution in Work calls for an Evolution in Living: Poverty blights the lives of billions of people throughout the world. Read more
President Trump: The Final Assault on Human Kindness and the Environment: A silver lining of action and fury is bubbling inside the prevailing gloom that is the election of Donald Trump. Read more
Time for a Just Economic Model: Over and above the greed and corruption of wealthy and powerful individuals, the leaked ‘Panama Papers’ revealed the need for a worldwide, standardised tax code. Read more
Hunger and Food Waste in a World of Plenty: Food, like shelter and health care, is enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights as a fundamental right of all people. Read more
Peace and the Ideology of Greed and Division: We all want peace, don’t we? Peaceful relationships and communities; an absence of violence and conflict: a World at Peace. Read more
Desperate People, Hazardous Escapes: Libya to Italy in Search of Freedom: Besieged by civil war, poverty and violent repression, huge numbers of people are risking their lives. Read more
Trafficking and Torturing Eritrean Refugees: Internationally ignored, life in Eritrea is brutal and shrouded in secrecy. The world is indifferent. Read more
Sharing: The Common-sense Solution: Inequality and the inevitable Collapse: Depending on who you listen to and how it is defined, worldwide income and wealth inequality is either more acute than it has ever been. Read more
Inequality Disorder Indifference You can see it glistening in colours red, white and blue, smell its choking fumes through the fogs of ambition and greed and mac-taste its convenient food. Read more

Palestine

Perpetual Conflict by Israeli Design: And so for a moment or two the slaughter of Palestinian civilians and the destruction in Gaza City has ceased; the oppression, intimidation and terror throughout the Occupied Palestinian Territories though continues unabated. Read More
Incarcerated inside Israel:Palestinians Tortured and Isolated: Detention without trial, the presumption of guilt, denial of family visits, solitary confinement, torture, violent interrogation, and denial of access to appropriate health care. Read More
Confined Cruelty: Israeli Treatment of Palestinian Minors: For many Palestinian children their childhood is lived under a cloak of fear, and the threat of violence and abuse at the hands of an armed force that stalks the streets of their homeland. Read More
Homes Destroyed, Land stolen, Lives Shattered: Criminal Demolition in the OPT’s: Within the catalogue of criminality that is Israel’s occupation of the West Bank and Gaza, the destruction of Palestinian homes must rank as one of the most cynical and heinous. Read More
Unsettled, Unlawful, Unresolved: Israeli Settlers in a Foreign Land: Violence, abuse, non-accountability, hate, such is communal living today within the occupied West Bank. Read More
West Bank Diary 2009: In July 2009 I went to the Middle East to run a series of creative education workshops, with Palestinian children in the West Bank. Read More
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