ROXANNE D. BROWN – Working people struggle to buy groceries, pay utilities, and purchase homes while the wealthy fritter away obscene sums just because they can. Here’s the good news: It isn’t too late to take back what’s ours.
US Funding Cuts Spur World Hunger and Starvation to Crisis Levels
LAWRENCE WITTNER – A new direction is needed to avert massive human suffering and death. In the immediate future, other wealthy nations could step up to fill the funding gap left by the Trump administration. Longer term, the United Nations and its agencies could be provided with an independent source of income, thereby ending their dependence on the whims of individual nations―especially those nations directed by people so fantastically wealthy that they lack any comprehension of hunger and its effects. Until remedial action is taken, however, world hunger and starvation will continue as a disgrace to humanity.
The first anti-AI protester to be jailed has a message for OpenAI, Anthropic and Meta: ‘Regain your humanity’
ROBERT BOOTH – Wynd Kaufman, the activist who blocked the entrance to one of the world’s biggest AI companies, is believed to have become the first person jailed for protesting against artificial intelligence as supporters dub her the “Rosa Parks of AI risk.”
Real Power No Longer Resides in Military Might
WINSLOW MYERS – When are we going to understand that power no longer resides in military might, but instead in mutual understanding of what leads to common survival? The prevention of war by tenuous military superiority has now become unworkable on this planet, forever. When we admit this to ourselves, the door to new visions of security will open.
Inside the longest refugee protest in history
MATT BENSON – The choice of nonviolence isn’t incidental. In a system designed to render them invisible, protesters have chosen a strategy that forces the world to look. They have chosen to absorb violence without returning it, not as a form of passivity, but as a strategy grounded in their reality. Their discipline in the face of brutality lays bare the moral asymmetry of the system that claims to protect them while imprisoning them.
Peace Requires Leaders Who Understand the Limits of Power
GEORGE CASSIDY PAYNE – George Payne explains and exposes the “limits of power” for every political leader, using Donald Trump as the example of one who does not understand what limits his power. Every presidency eventually encounters forces beyond politics. There comes a point when personality collides with reality—and reality cannot be negotiated, litigated or rebranded. Three realities illustrate that truth: science, the rule of law, and geopolitics.