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Yemen Faces Critical Moment Following Assassination

December 13, 2017 No Comments

The assassination on December 4, 2017 of former Yemen President Ali Abdullah Saleh has potentially opened a new chapter in the ongoing struggle for power in Yemen. There might be a possibility that with a major actor pushed off the stage, the lesser actors might accept the good offices of the United Nations mediator Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed and form

No Nuclear Weapons & Nobel 2017: Next Best Thing to Being There

December 12, 2017 No Comments

Over the decades, the Nobel Peace Prize and its decision-making committee has come under great criticism for a number of obvious controversies. But no lover of peace can fault Nobel Prize 2017, a glorious affirmation of the work of the grassroots-based International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN). A truly global effort with leaders from every continent, ICAN led the very effective

No Nuclear Weapons & Nobel 2017: Next Best Thing to Being There

December 12, 2017 No Comments

Over the decades, the Nobel Peace Prize and its decision-making committee has come under great criticism for a number of obvious controversies. But no lover of peace can fault Nobel Prize 2017, a glorious affirmation of the work of the grassroots-based International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN). A truly global effort with leaders from every continent, ICAN led the very effective

The Venezuelan Revolution: Solidarity and Spirit, Not Strangulation

November 14, 2017 No Comments

From the feel of U.S. headlines, Venezuela is a country on the verge of civil war, amidst a political and economic crisis which makes violence the order of the day. Having just attended the founding of the First Ecosocialist International, held in three towns in the state of Yaracuy with activities in the capital of Caracas, it is clear that those

The Venezuelan Revolution: Solidarity and Spirit, Not Strangulation

November 14, 2017 No Comments

From the feel of U.S. headlines, Venezuela is a country on the verge of civil war, amidst a political and economic crisis which makes violence the order of the day. Having just attended the founding of the First Ecosocialist International, held in three towns in the state of Yaracuy with activities in the capital of Caracas, it is clear that those

Resisting the Racist White Lives Matter Mobilization

November 3, 2017 No Comments

I wrestled with how to write about last weekend. It was exhausting, heartbreaking, weeks in planning, and ultimately successful; but what the hell does “success” mean when you’re talking about shutting down white supremacists and Nazis in 2017? It began as a plan, an absurd “dangerous” plan. A small collective of women clergy, and women of faith, came together and