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Why Artificial Intelligence Must Be Stopped Now

Those advocating for artificial intelligence tout the...

We Need a Plan for the Transition to Renewable Energy

The transition to renewable energy is inevitable...

Gaza Is DR Congo, Gaza Is Haiti

How can I hold the knowledge of unspeakable horrors happening far away and not explode inside? How can I sit in my modest but comfortable home, refrigerator well stocked, knowing what unbearable suffering is being inflicted on my brothers and sisters in the human family...

With Genocide in Gaza, the Word ‘Never’ Has Been Stripped from ‘Never Again’

A Palestinian man holds a child as he mourns the death of twin babies Naeem and Wissam Abu Anza, killed in an overnight Israeli air strike, during their burial in Rafah in the...

African Stream

13 Mar 2024 – African Stream is an anti-war, anti-imperialist video and text website based in Nairobi, Kenya. I spoke to its founder, Ahmed Kaballo. Ann Garrison: I love African Stream. Can you...

Gaza Is DR Congo, Gaza Is Haiti

How can I hold the knowledge of unspeakable horrors happening far away and not explode inside? How can I sit in my modest but comfortable home, refrigerator well stocked, knowing what unbearable suffering is being inflicted...

Survivors Uncensored: Voices from Rwanda and the Rwandan Diaspora

Most reporting on the Rwandan 1994 atrocities was false and driven by the Clinton administration’s need to hide its culpability. The book Survivors Uncensored allows Rwandans to tell their own story. 21 Sep 2022...

Book Review: The Soul of Uganda Through Song by Michiel van Oosterhout

The Soul of Uganda Through Song by the Dutch journalist, music archivist and documentary filmmaker, Michiel van Oosterhout, is a lyrical telling of Uganda’s history in the period starting at independence in 1962 to...

Why Artificial Intelligence Must Be Stopped Now

Those advocating for artificial intelligence tout the huge benefits of using this technology. For instance, an article in CNN points out how AI is helping Princeton scientists solve “a key problem” with fusion energy. AI that can translate text to audio and audio to text is making information more accessible. Many digital tasks can be done faster using this technology. However, any advantages that AI may promise are eclipsed by the cataclysmic dangers of this controversial new technology. Humanity has a narrow chance to stop a technological revolution whose unintended negative consequences will vastly outweigh any short-term benefits. In the early 20th century, people (notably in the United States) could conceivably...

Why Artificial Intelligence Must Be Stopped Now

Those advocating for artificial intelligence tout the huge benefits of using this technology. For instance, an article in CNN points out how AI is...

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Transitional Justice (Part 56): Rohingya the Voiceless, Stateless Refugees

Introduction 15 Mar 2024 – It is natural to have questions about how this paper...

Investigations of Attacks on the Eritrean Diaspora Are Underway

February 17 Eritrean Independence Day Celebration in Charlotte, North Carolina. The event was attacked by violent protestors who threw bricks at police and set a tractor trailer on fire. Police made eight arrests. 28...

Leif Eiriksson Peace Award 2022 to Johan Galtung

From the Peace 2000 Institute an d Mirpuri Foundation The award was presented on 8 July 2022 by Thor Magnusson from the Peace 2000 Institute through the Mirpuri Foundation at the Lisbon Opera House, Portugal....

Transitional Justice (Part 56): Rohingya the Voiceless, Stateless Refugees

Introduction 15 Mar 2024 – It is natural to have questions about how this paper on transitional justice fits into...

Too Fast to Be a Woman

[soundcloud url="https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/782302072" params="color=ff5500" width="100%" height="166" iframe="true" /] When South African...

Charmant Mushaga: The refugee who has found stardom in Uganda

By Musinguzi Bamuturaki The gifted Congolese guitarist, singer-songwriter and band...

OVERLOAD, A Bullfrog Films

OVERLOAD reveals the increasing toxic burden on human health...

Being African in India: 'We are seen as demons' By Aleta Andre

I speak Hindi and always laugh. But when I offer biscuits to the neighbours' children, they don't accept.'   Zaharaddeen Muhammed, a master's degree...

A Message from the Peasant Organizations in Haiti

Haiti Action Committee | Malaika H Kambon 31 May 2020, Port-au-Prince – Haiti Action Committee is honored to distribute this message of solidarity  from peasant organization...

We Ought to Fight Dependence on Technology

Technology should not strip us off our ‘human’ ability to survive and thrive independently. We should not be enslaved by our own inventions. Let's...

Confronting Conflict with Creativity

From Chapel Hill to Democratic Republic of Congo, music professor Chérie Rivers Ndaliko empowers students to come together and use creativity as a touchstone...

LUCHA: Youth movement in Congo demands social justice By Marta Iñiguez de Heredia

LUCHA is an organisation created in Goma, the capital of North Kivu in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), in June 2012. Both its...

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