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The militarisation of society: Education for war in Czech Schools

5.7.2017 | In the Czech Republic, since 2013 there has been a Ministry of Defence programme known as POKOS: “Preparing citizens to defend the state”[i]. The main interest is to publicise the activities of the Army in different way.  The Ministry’s website says: “discussions, lectures, seminars, practical exercises, exhibitions, thematic and project days, artistic, play and competitive activities, and conducting demonstrations on s...

 

US Sends 3,600 Tanks Against Russia - Massive NATO Deployment Underway

8.1.2017 | The NATO war preparation against Russia, ‘Operation Atlantic Resolve’, is in full swing. 2,000 US tanks will be sent in coming days from Germany to Eastern Europe, and 1,600 US tanks is deployed to storage facilities in the Netherlands. At the same time, NATO countries are sending thousands of soldiers in to Russian borders. According to US Army Europe, 4,000 troops and 2,000 tanks will arrive in three US transport ship...

 

Mass protests held in Poland against educational reform

25.11.2016 | Demonstrators in Poland have protested against a controversial decision by the government on bringing about a significant educational reform in the public school system. Thousands of teachers and students’ parents, along with social activists and critics, held demonstrations all over the country, including in the capital Warsaw, on Saturday, calling on the conservative ruling Law and Justice (PiS) party to abandon its e...

 

‘Soldiers go home’ – Italians protest American base on US Election Day

25.11.2016 | Protesters against a US military base in Italy used firecrackers, with police responding with tear gas. Demonstrators rallied on the day of the US presidential election saying no matter who wins, American soldiers should “go home.” Up to 200 people gathered in the Italian town of Vicenza on Tuesday calling on Washington to “free” their soil from the US military presence. Vicenza, located in north-eastern Italy, is hom...

 

The United Nations votes to start negotiations to ban the bomb

25.11.2016 | One hundred and twenty-three nations voted to move forward with negotiations to prohibit nuclear weapons—just as the world has already done for biological and chemical weapons. In a historic vote on October 27 at the United Nations Committee for Disarmament, what has long seemed to be hopelessly clogged institutional machinery for abolishing nuclear weapons was upended when 123 nations voted to move forward with negotia...

 

VIDEO Reports: Varoufakis and Horvat launch Democracy in Europe Movement 2025

13.2.2016 | Press Conference The Democracy in Europe Movement 25 initiated by Yanis Varoufakis, former finance minister of Greece, andSrecko Horvat, philosopher & author, was launched with a press conference at Volksbühne in Berlin. To provide an accurate account of the launch of the movement to the public, acTVism Munich recorded the entire press conference. Click here to access the video of the press conference. Vide...

 

Toward a Nuclear-Weapon-Free World: one billion citizens’ appeal

28.1.2016 | Hiroshima Peace Culture Foundation: “Toward a Nuclear-Weapon-Free World: One Billion Citizens’ Appeal” ************************************************************************** Yasuyoshi Komizo Secretary General of Mayors for Peace Chairperson of the Hiroshima Peace Culture Foundation Despite everyone’s wish for peace, our world is filled with hatred and countless seeds of conflict. We, Mayors for...

 

Djukanovic to be jailed after Montenegro joins NATO

28.1.2016 | My name is Ion Todescu. I’m Bucharest-based freelance journalist, worked at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 2007-2013  and with leading Romanian newspapers e.g Adevarul etc. Now I’m the owner of well-known personal blog (drakulablog.com). Today I’ve written an interesting piece about the future of Montenegrin leader Milo Djukanovic:  Djukanovic to be Jailed after Montenegro Joins NATO Montenegro, the...

 

Argentina: Free Milagro Sala

28.1.2016 | Wed, 20/01/2016 – 20:53 Humanists denounce and reject all forms of violence, in particular when people who fight for social change are deprived of liberty, such is the case of Milagro Sala. Milagro represents a social organisation, Tupac Amaru, whose membership consists of thousands and thousands of humble people, indigenous people from the Argentinean province of Jujuy, a people who out of desperate need...

 

Varoufakis set to build a Europe of the People

17.1.2016 | Last July Varoufakis stepped down as Tsipras’s Finance Minister in order to avoid becoming an impediment to an agreement between Greece and Europe, or so he said at the time, but really because he didn’t agree with the deal, as he later admitted. Since the submission of the Greek government to the Troika’s demands, little has been seen of the former minister’s projects that he presented to those who would subsequently impose...

 

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