By Mike Elk October 14, 2010 Chilean miner Carlos Barrios leaves the Fenix rescue capsule. Barrios was the 13th miner brought to the surface on Oct. 13. The 33 Chilean miners trapped underground for 69 days have been treated like heroes since their rescue this week. They were invited to the country’s Presidential Palace for […]

An Excerpt from Were You Born on the Wrong Continent? By Thomas Geoghegan July 26, 2010 Americans may believe the United States is set up for the middle class, and Europe is set up for the bourgeois. Or let’s put it this way: America is a great place to buy kitty litter at Wal-Mart and […]

Grassroots Christians call for fresh approaches to issues of violence and peace in Australia In the face of the continuing problems of securing peace in the world and of bringing justice for Indigenous Australians, refugees, and a climate-threatened planet, grassroots Christians from across the denominations are urgently calling for alternatives based on the nonviolent principles […]

Haaretz –  26 September 2010 A boat carrying Jewish activists from Israel, Germany, the U.S. and Britain set sail on Sunday for Gaza, hoping to breach Israel’s blockade there and deliver aid. Richard Kuper, an organizer with the U.K. group Jews for Justice for Palestinians, said one goal is to show that not all Jews […]

By Harry Hagopian 10 Sep 2010 The main question in the Middle East today is not one of finding solutions but of implementing them, says Harry Hagopian. However, the majority of the Israeli political establishment – not unlike Hamas in an obverse sense – appears not to want to resolve the conflict and establish peace […]

George Monbiot The ethical case against eating animal produce once seemed clear. But a new book is an abattoir for dodgy arguments. This will not be an easy column to write. I am about to put down 1,200 words in support of a book that starts by attacking me and often returns to this sport. […]

By David Sirota July 31, 2010 For all of its “Matrix”-like convolutions and “Alice in Wonderland” allusions, the new film “Inception” adds something significant to the ancient ruminations about reality’s authenticity — something profoundly relevant to this epoch of confusion. In the movie’s tale of corporate espionage, we are asked to ponder this moment’s most […]

By Deanna Zandt August 2, 2010 No doubt about it: Social networks have landed in our culture, and they’re planning to stay awhile. During late 2008 and early 2009, Facebook doubled in size, growing from 100 million registered users to 200 million in eight months, and topped the 400 million mark by early 2010. Twitter’s […]

By Sally Cloke and Carlyn Chen What does reconciliation look like? Here are two examples of how a suburban church, and group of TEAR staff, have committed to make reconciliation part of their lives. Starting from ourselves You’re a bit behind the times, but it’s a good start!” said local Gadigal man Michael West, a […]

For the first time, the U.S. government acknowledges modern-day slavery in the United States. One-hundred-and-fifty years after the abolition of slavery, the State Department has acknowledged that people in the United States continue to be bought and sold as property. The department’s 2010 “Trafficking in Persons” (TIP) report, a global review of human trafficking and […]

A massive online campaign by the Avaaz community in Brazil has just won a stunning victory against corruption. The “clean record” law was a bold proposal that banned any politician convicted of crimes like corruption and money laundering from running for office. With nearly 25% of the Congress under investigation for corruption, most said it would […]

By Nathan Schneider June 1, 2010 The Israeli navy attacked an international Gaza Freedom Movement “Freedom Flotilla” intent on breaking Israel’s blockade of the Gaza Strip, in international waters. The explosion of media coverage surrounding this makes it likely the highest-profile act of (supposedly) nonviolent resistance to occur in years. But the dust has yet […]