Peace

What do anti-vaxxers and anti-GMO campaigners have in common? Underpinning both “antis” is a shared belief that because vaccines and GMOs are “unnatural,” they’re bad, which for many people—whatever their feelings about vaccines and GMOs—segues into its inverse: What’s natural is good. Shades of Rousseau’s exaltation of the noble savage,…

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe lays a wreath during a ceremony marking the 75th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki. Photo: AFPPrime Minister Shinzo Abe has adopted a less apologetic stance and wants to revise a post-war, pacifist constitution Many Koreans resent Japan’s 1910-45 colonial rule, while China has…

Features Shane Superville Sunday 9 August 2020Amir Maulana Ibrahim Bin Yaqub, centre, sits among a group of children who received presents after a special children’s day programme in January at the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community’s Preysal headquarters in January. PHOTO COURTESY THE AHMADIYYA MUSLIM COMMUNITY - For over 50 years the…

Cape Town — South Africa, Cote d'Ivoire and Equatorial Guinea have become more peaceful in the past year, but the situations in Benin and Niger have deterioriated, according to the latest results of a survey which ranks nations for "peacefulness". The Global Peace Index (GPI) for 2020 shows that although…

RECALL Jonathan Swift’s classic work Gulliver’s Travels? The tale revolves around a war in Lilliput between opposing sides which disagree over how an egg should be cracked before it is eaten. Just like the Lilliputians, we have fought over trivial matters as much as over ideology and religion. Man is,…

Early in his presidency, when he was still pretending to be a serious person, Donald Trump traveled to the birthplace of Andrew Jackson, our seventh president, to extol his virtues. Trump praised Jackson’s support for tariffs and his hatred of elites. (Ironically, Jackson, together with Thomas Jefferson, is considered one…

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"The UN, where Israel is singled out for condemnation as a matter of course, is far from able to provide the solution for world peace." A MAN WEARING a traditional head dress stands near the Morning Star flag during a rally in Sydney, Australia, in support of West Papuans. (photo…

No one loses a war like the United States. Yet we start them all the time. In fact, if you pause to listen to our language—from “battleground” states in election years to “culture wars” every other decade—it’s hard to believe our nation is not at constant, unending war with everyone…

The chaos on the streets of Portland, Oregon, where President Donald Trump’s deployment of federal agents has resulted in violent unrest, was made for TV—or, perhaps more accurately, for Twitter. “Trump’s campaign officials say that the president wants to amplify his law-and-order message to show he is a last bastion…