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COVID-19 in Gaza
The Covid-19 pandemic is confronting governments around the world with an emergency health situation, requiring self-isolation,...
Science for Peace
Apr 18, 20208 min read
The Unconscious System Plague: Will Covid-19 Finally Awaken Us?
Like others, I have thought from the first day of the Covid-19 pandemic that it was forcing us to awake from exponential life-system...
Science for Peace
Apr 18, 20206 min read
Covid 19 Update 6, April 17
For China and South Korea the pandemic is over. Iran and Italy are at about 2% of new cases daily and will slowly continue to go down....
Science for Peace
Apr 17, 20203 min read
Covid 19 Update 5, April 11
On April 9 the Canadian government released a report predicting 500 – 700 new deaths and 32000 total cases by the end of the week. These...
Science for Peace
Apr 11, 20203 min read
Covid 19 Update 4 – April 8
In the recent Ontario report projecting 3000 – 10000 deaths from Covid in two years, the range includes a number of possible...
Science for Peace
Apr 8, 20204 min read
Pandemic Insights: Acting Together for a Peaceful, Sustainable World
How strange this time is. Separated, distanced, alone with our thoughts, imaginings, fears… We don’t know when our isolation will end,...
Science for Peace
Apr 7, 20203 min read
Why I Love Science for Peace
When I retired several years ago from the Department of Political Science at the University of Toronto, I wanted to do different things...
Science for Peace
Apr 7, 20203 min read
Global Health in the Covid-19 Era: Tackling the Real Issues
By the late 20th century it was evident that pervasive threats to global health were not being adequately addressed. These threats...
Science for Peace
Apr 6, 20205 min read
Covid 19 Update – April 03
Sadly, but not surprisingly, the virus crisis brought with it a pandemic of blaming and hate. Lately there has been much talk about China...
Science for Peace
Apr 3, 20203 min read
Covid 19 Update – March 31
Brazil’s president Bolsonaro recently declared that Brazilians have a natural immunity to Covid 19. So far the data seems to confirm that...
Science for Peace
Mar 31, 20201 min read
Covid 19 Update — March 26, 2020
The data tracing the pandemic provide objective indicators as to how well different countries are doing in controlling the spread and...
Science for Peace
Mar 27, 20203 min read
Understanding War – A Philosophical Inquiry | John McMurtry | Science for Peace (1989)
Table of Contents Preface Foreword I The Problem II Basic Fallacies of the Military Paradigm III Who is the Self of National...
John McMurtry
Mar 16, 202051 min read
Naomi Klein and the Politics of the Green New Deal
“Winning is a moral imperative. The stakes are too high, and time is too short, to settle for anything else.” Naomi Klein addressed these...
Science for Peace
Mar 5, 20205 min read
A military coup in Bolivia?
Although about half of the Bolivian population is of indigenous origin, the election of Evo Morales as president in 2005 represented the...
Science for Peace
Nov 20, 20192 min read
Understanding the current political/economic world — Quinn Slobodian’s Globalists: The End of Empire
Quinn Slobodian’s masterful exegesis, an old term befitting his subject, tells of the Ur group of thinkers who formulated the assumptions...
Science for Peace
Mar 17, 20194 min read
Climate Crisis, Fascism and the End of Neoliberalism
Unchecked climate change will, almost inevitably, galvanize fascism and bring an end to capitalism as we know it. Although the far right...
Science for Peace
Mar 8, 20195 min read
Let Venezuelans Solve Venezuela’s Problems
February 2019 (français a suivre) Science for Peace deplores the steps taken in recent days by the Government of Canada to overturn the...
Science for Peace
Feb 15, 20194 min read
Gene Sharp has died and the world has lost a global educator
by Jørgen Johansen Just a week after his 90th birthday Gene Sharp passed away. The journal New Statesman once described Gene Sharp as the...
Science for Peace
Jan 30, 20185 min read
India and Pakistan’s Long-Awaited Full Membership to SCO Becomes Reality
by Nivedita Das Kundu Kremlin.ru, CC BY 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons The Shanghai Cooperation...
Science for Peace
Jun 10, 20174 min read
Geopolitics of Northern Sea Route: Russia-China-India’s Growing Interest in Arctic
by Nivedita Das Kundu The Arctic is an ocean surrounded mostly by land and governed by the United Nations Conventions under the laws of...
Science for Peace
May 9, 20174 min read
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