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As the spiritual leader of the world’s 1.4 billion Catholics, Pope Francis unified people of different generations. He encouraged genuine love for humans—”Todo, todo, todo.” He spoke out against war, militarism, and the ravages of climate change.

The increasing number of murdered women, armed civilians, construction of ever larger prisons and violence against animals are manifestations of "war mentality". Violence we encounter every day is closely linked to wars we think are far away.

We need not surrender Chanukah to Zionism’s dark vision. As rabbis refocused Chanukah more than a millennium ago, we can honor the instruction in Deuteronomy, “. . . I have set before you life and death, blessings and curses. Now choose life . . . "

The hobbling of the Security Council, the UN agency tasked with enforcing international peace and security, bears the lion’s share of the responsibility for this weakness.

"We need a song that transcends the moment instead of leaving us to have to live in that feeling of despair and horror and hunger and human suffering,” Collins said.” We have to be given something to lift us over that and through that.”

Remembering the activism and artistry of a New York theatre hero.

We are on the brink of a precipice, which the World risks falling into. We need a radical, left-wing exit route. Italy should contribute in the European elections with an electoral list concentrated on the theme that marks the dividing line: Peace.

Without a higher moral vision, the left is just another player in an endless saga of bloodshed and suffering.

Armistice Day’s purpose was to serve as a reminder of the horrors of the First World War and carry forward the declaration of those veterans of Never Again.