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Destacada historiadora peruana, autora de libros fundamentales para entender el Estado Inca como “Historia del Tahuantinsuyo” y “Pachacútec“; inspiró a varias generaciones de historiadores, arqueólogos, antropólogos y sociólogos. Destacada historiadora peruana, autora de libros fundamentales para entender el Estado Inca como “Historia del Tahuantinsuyo” y “Pachacútec“; abrió con su trabajo sendos caminos de investigación sobre nuestro pasado e inspiró a varias generacion...

Conseil des droits de l’homme : la pandémie de COVID-19 a entraîné un recul substantiel de la situation des personnes touchées par la lèpre Format Le déni systématique des droits économiques et sociaux des victimes de la lèpre, notamment de leurs droits à la protection sociale, au travail et à la sécurité sociale, produit une situation dextrême vulnérabilité pour ces personnes, a déploré cet après-midi Mme Alice Cruz, Rapporteuse spéciale sur l’élimination de la discrim...

Be Your Own Buddha - Be Your Own BuddhaBuddha Purnima is the day Gautam Buddha was born, attained enlightenment, and entered Nirvana. On this pious day, the moon glows brighter and bigger than usual. Watch the moon on the...

Buddhism teachings see life as a process of constant change which means that one can change for the better.

 Dissident Voice: here and here. I even did a review of that documentary,  The People VS Agent Orange, which highlights Tran To Nga‘s fight in France — “Eternal Impunity of Capitalism’s Crimes“. Here’s one passage from that story I wrote: Dr. James Clary was with the Air Force in Vietnam, which ran the program. He was ordered to dump the computer and erase all memory. Instead, he printed out a stack of documents two feet high – missions, sorties, coordinates, dates, gallons d...

Anwar Fazal holding the smallest radio in the world. It is on a keychain and half the size of a matchbox. FEB 13 is celebrated annually as World Radio Day. I grew up in the early 1940s where radios were a supremely addictive global communications tool. My family had our first radio sometime in 1948 when I was seven years old. The three families who shared the home upstairs and business downstairs always had their different radio stations, local and global, for news and music and I learnt about...

This is viewer supported news. Please do your part today.Donate In a landmark decision, judges at the International Criminal Court say the body has jurisdiction over war crimes committed in the Palestinian territories, opening the door to possible criminal charges against Israel and militant groups like Hamas. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called the international tribunal’s decision “pure anti-Semitism” and rejected its claim of jurisdiction, as did the United States, while P...

SCREENSHOT OF 350.org World-renowned environmentalist Dr. Bill McKibben gave his outlook for climate change in a Stony Brook University sponsored colloquium on Jan. 6. Hosted by the Alan Alda Center for Communicating Science, the School of Journalism and the School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences (SoMAS), the chat sought to create a meaningful conversation about climate change. A recent report from the European Union’s Copernicus Climate Change Service found that 2020 tied with 2016 for th...

My Six Mentors,   “……………. Rosalie Bertell, PhD It was Rosalie who most let me know that I am able to contribute original work towards the day that People, to decide not to split atoms any more. Human beings began splitting atoms in Chicago, in 1942. Rosalie, a PhD in mathematics and member of the Order of Gray Nuns, knew more than anyone else I have worked with, that all of it—every last nuclear license, and radioactive emission, all the waste and all the bombs and all the money...

Posted on December 17th, 2020 Senaka Weeraratna This is one of the most favourite quotations of the celebrated 19th century Russian novelist Leo Tolstoy.   It means that for as long as humans continue to be the ruthless destroyer of non – humans, the former will never know peace or harmony. For as long as humans massacre animals, they will also kill each other as we have seen right throughout human history. Indeed, one who sows the seeds of murder and pain on anoth...