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September 3, 2022

Peace Literacy: Education for Life

H Patricia Hynes Portside

What if all our schools required training in skilled, non-violent conflict resolution as a form of peace literacy and moral awareness for their students. Would that not be one of the most useful education skills for life that we could give them?

September 3, 2022

Pakistanis Outraged by Inept Government Response to Monsoon Floods

S Khan (Islamabad) News Click

Widespread flooding driven by devastating monsoons has affected 33 million people in Pakistan — some 15% of the population. Anger is growing at the government's failure to provide timely assistance.

September 3, 2022

Chile on a Knife Edge

Hugo Guzman Morning Star

The issue is whether Chileans will live in a repressive political structure and exploitative economic model installed by a dictatorship decades ago, or whether they will choose to start a new and egalitarian chapter in the history of Chile.

September 2, 2022

Friday Nite Videos | September 2, 2022

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I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For. Medicine’s Fixation on the Sex Binary. Here’s How Animals Experience the World. This Supreme Court Case Could Determine Who Wins Future Elections. How US Corporations Poisoned This Indigenous Community.

I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For | Playing for Change

September 2, 2022

Over 40 extraordinary musicians from 13 countries send a message (by U2) to the relatives of missing people in the world: you are not alone in the search of your loved ones. In honor of the International Day of the Disappeared.

Medicine’s Fixation on the Sex Binary Harms Intersex People

September 2, 2022

“Normalizing” infants’ and children’s genital appearance to match a sex assigned in early age isn’t medically necessary and can negatively impact quality of life.

Here’s How Animals Experience the World | Ed Yong

September 2, 2022

Catfish taste with their whole bodies - and that’s just one way animals sense the world totally differently than us.

This Supreme Court Case Could Determine Who Wins Future Elections | Robert Reich

September 2, 2022

You probably haven't heard about it -- but Moore v. Harper could let extremist state legislatures pick the next president without you.

How US Corporations Poisoned This Indigenous Community

September 2, 2022

Invisible chemicals changed the Mohawk way of life. They’re probably in you, too.

September 2, 2022

Mississippi’s Dry Run for Eco-Apartheid

Kate Aronoff The New Republic

The water crisis in Jackson, Mississippi, was thoroughly preventable. And it’s a vision of a disastrous future.