GEORGE CASSIDY PAYNE – If there is a path toward peace in our time, it will not be paved by the erasure of difference, but by the cultivation of understanding across it. Interfaith is not the enemy of orthodoxy. It is its testing ground, its expansion, its flowering. To some, that will always feel like a loss of control. To others, it is the beginning of wisdom, seeing the whole pattern without losing the thread that is one’s own.
‘Only the Beginning’: Santa Marta Summit Heralded as New Dawn in Fight to End Fossil Fuel Era
STEPHEN PRAGER – “Amid a tense geopolitical context and worsening climate extremes, Santa Marta helped spark a feeling of renewed energy, but delegates must now follow through to deliver action, not just words,” said a senior climate adviser at Greenpeace.
“Us and them” is obsolete
WINSLOW MYERS – What is true for any intractable quarrel on our small planet is just as true for all the others. Peacebuilding has a chance when people recognize their own role in the conflict. We venerate Nelson Mandela because he sought reconciliation rather than victory. Just as Netanyahu might look into the face of the late Hamas leader Yahyah Sinwar and see his own ruthlessness, so could Secretary Hegseth look at his counterpart in the Iran Revolutionary Guards and see a fanaticism resembling his own. The face of “them” is a mirror.
Replace NATO with Cooperative Foreign Policy and Depend on Nonviolent Civil Resistance
TOM H. HASTINGS – Mass nonviolent resistance can stop Trump and others. If we are willing, we can win. War profiteering, NATO, and other militarized fossils can mercifully become even more patently obsolete. The future is exactly what Dr. King said, nonviolence or nonexistence.
What the historically low snowpack in the American West means for water and wildfire this summer
ANNA MARIJA HELT – El Nino may bring lots of rain to Colorado, for instance, and forecasters expect it to develop in early fall. “Still, rain tends to do much less for our water supply than snow,” Allie Mazurek said. And snow is a resource that will likely be in shorter and shorter supply in the years to come in the West,
Where We Are and Where We Need to Be on Iran
MEL GURTOV – If an agreement with Iran were to take place, we would be back to the status quo before the US attacks with a few improvements that stabilize US-Iran relations. The nuclear issue would be put to rest for the moment, the Strait would reopen, sanctions on Iran would gradually end, and US forces would leave the Gulf area. All of which would point to one conclusion: that Trump’s war on Iran was needless, a terrible sacrifice of lives and economy.