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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 diversity in words and music. Because of my teenage passion for sports, particularly cricket, I was...

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 Palestinian officials and human rights groups welcome the news. Human rights lawyer Raji Sourani, dir...

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 the hottest year on record. An accomplished author and journalist, McKibben founded the climate activi...

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 congress gives to nuclear activities are choices. People made, and continue to make these decisions...

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 another living being cannot be expected to reap joy and love in their own private lives.   There is no ...