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An international group of women activists, including Gloria Steinem and two Nobel Peace laureates, on Sunday crossed the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) between North and South Korea in a call for global peace and reconciliation. “We are walking for a peaceful world, we are walking for a peaceful world,” the activists sang as they crossed one […]

Williams’ chief technical officer Paddy Lowe has been talking about why Felipe Massa decided to retire at the end of 2017. Massa originally left the sport at the end of last season. He was recalled by the team after Valtteri Bottas departed over the winter to join Mercedes. He went on to enjoy a good […]

Even with a historic political victory in his pocket after seeing his nation vote overwhelmingly against the imposition of further austerity in exchange for a new loan package from foreign creditors on Sunday, Yanis Varoufakis, the outspoken finance minister of Greece’s Syriza-led government, announced his resignation on Monday morning.  Tweets from https://twitter.com/commondreams/lists/greek-crisis In a statement […]

The men who line up on the Formula 1 grid are the best drivers in the world, but sometimes things to go according to plans. We’ve put together a gallery of all the thrills and spills, mishaps and crashes of the 2017 season. All pictures are from our partners, XPB and WRI2. 53 You may […]

In the middle of the Pacific Ocean, a team of Greenpeace activists has boarded an Arctic-bound drilling vessel owned by the Shell oil company. “I’m just one voice out here, but I know I’m not alone, and millions if not billions of voices demanding the right to safe and healthy lives will have a huge […]

It’s good and right that we commemorate the mass killing in the Ottoman Empire during World War I of between 500,000 and 1.5 million Armenians.      Many nations now call the slaughter of 1915-1916 as “genocide.” This week the 100th anniversary of the notorious event was observed.   Pope Francis and the European parliament called […]

Western journalists claim that the big lesson they learned from their key role in selling the Iraq War to the public is that it’s hideous, corrupt and often dangerous journalism to give anonymity to government officials to let them propagandize the public, then uncritically accept those anonymously voiced claims as Truth. But they’ve learned no such […]

Click:Piping bag making machine Award-winning Uruguayan writer and thinker Eduardo Galeano, considered a leading voice of Latin America’s left, has died at 74. The world-renowned author, who had been diagnosed with lung cancer, died in Montevideo on Monday. The novelist and journalist—whose work transcended genre and who once said “all written work constitutes literature, even […]

The district court at The Hague in the Netherlands on Tuesday is hearing oral arguments in an unprecedented legal case brought against the Dutch government by nearly 900 of its citizens who say the failure of elected leaders when it comes to reducing greenhouse gas emissions is a violation of existing human rights protections and […]

Former Formula 1 boss Bernie Ecclestone says that the sport’s new owners don’t want him attending Grand Prix events in 2018. Ecclestone is officially still ‘chairman emeritus’ of F1. However, he believes that the new management installed since Liberty Media’s takeover would prefer he wasn’t around. Click Here: IQOS White “I have the feeling that […]