Toward a World that Works for Everyone
Up To 9 Additional Nations Could Join Peace Deal With Israel, Including Saudi Arabia, Trump Says Daily Wire News, Sep 15, 2020 (https://tinyurl.com/y66c7yzm) President Donald Trump said Tuesday afternoon that up to nine additional nations could join a peace deal with Israel in the near future, including Saudi Arabia. “We have many other countries [that […]
By Bill Chappell and Ruth Sherlock, NPR, August 5th, 2020 https://www.npr.org/2020/08/05/899282146/no-words-after-enormous-explosion-rips-beirut-a-search-for-answers Updated at 4:51 a.m. ET Thursday, August 6th, 2020 Beirut is reeling and Lebanon is in grief after a powerful explosion tore through the capital’s port area on Tuesday. The enormous blast, which officials said was driven by thousands of tons of ammonium nitrate, […]
(Continued from Part 1, yesterday.) The point I wanted to make however is: what do we do in the face of this constant change to maintain our equilibrium, our balance? Things are going faster than I can keep up with. What do we do? I can only say what I do, which I’ve been doing […]
If we were to see the ending of the careers of corrupt politicians, of big business’s control over the finances of the world, of the military-industrial complex’s grip on control of the world, etc., I think we could all agree that we’d be in a time of terrific, even revolutionary change. We may be saying […]
April 2, 2020 With loving greetings from all souls at this station, this is Matthew. Beloved brothers and sisters, please take a deep breath. Exhale slowly and let your hearts feel lighter. Now envision Earth glowing in golden-white light, then “see” people of all ages and skin colors joyously hugging each other and the animals […]
The dialogue so needed in Canada. . . From 2019. So say the Better Angels of the partisan divide. Sarah Lazarovic, YES!, November 12, 2019 https://dev-wp.yesmagazine.org/issue/building-bridges/2019/11/12/healing-a-divided-nation Three weeks after the 2016 presidential election, a group of 21 people came together in South Lebanon, Ohio, outside Cincinnati, to talk. The group comprised 11 people who’d supported […]
Writer’s Corner by Ed Love https://www.edlovecoaching.com/2020/02/12/harmony-with-other-cultures-cultural-intelligence-cq/ To many, it’s obvious that different countries have different cultures. After all, look at all that strange food, curious clothing, and interesting tourist attractions! However, after spending many years living and working overseas, I’ve noticed that it goes so much deeper than that. It’s very easy to think that […]
Retrospective from early 2019 Séverine Autesserre: Why the way we make peace needs to change Safiya Songhai and Kate Roff, January 22, 2019, Peace News Network https://tinyurl.com/ucjmro8 In places like South Sudan, Syria and Congo failed peace pacts have devastating consequences. Now, renowned author Séverine Autesserre is writing a new book that focuses on different […]
Only Bridging Can Heal a World of Breaking John A. Powell, Yes! Magazine, Nov. 12, 2019 https://www.yesmagazine.org/issues/building-bridges/heal-divide-break-bridging-20191112 Meaningful bridging—like real integration—must acknowledge, respect, and appreciate difference as a starting point. At a time of heightened polarization and intense inequality in the United States and around the world, social differences run the risk of being turned […]
This 9/11, we can imagine…. Thanks to Len. Go directly to the song: 1:02.
You’d think that, after the fall of Nazism, Fascism, and Stalinism, the world would have learned its lessons and not go down this road again. But characterizing democracy protesters in Hong Kong as “terrorists” has that same ring. And the predictable tactics – “thugs” doing what police can’t do and then disappearing before the police […]
Thanks to Robin. Farmers remain silent at auction so young man can buy his family farm back Sophie Michael, News360, South Africa, April 26, 2019 httpss://tinyurl.com/yy2gwjt6 David’s family’s 80 acres of land [in Nebraska, USA] was sold to a distant relative and the family’s property was gone. What they had spent decades building vanished in […]
Thank you, Janneke, for your beautiful story of finding Now, and the links below. The courage to be gratitude through all our challenges is a way to raise our vibrations. Dear Steve, Having read your Catch-22 article and the emails posted in the article “What Can We Do?” (1) I felt like responding to your […]
httpss://www.peacenews.com/single-post/2018/10/27/Christian-Muslim-and-Indigenous-groups-work-together-in-divided-Philippines By Adriene Cabalinan, October 27, 2018, Peace News Network The conflict that the Philippines has experienced for decades has intensified religious, ethnic, and political differences. However, in the Upi municipality – where the population is 60 percent Teduray (an indigenous group), 25 percent Christian and 15 percent Muslim – each group is represented in […]
www.voiceoffreedom.ca The courage to let go and forgive our selves for the old ways within, creates the New without, societies that operate based on kindness. I have often wondered why there is so much drama, from personal to global. When I look within to see how I am treating my self, I see that reflection in […]
