Peace & Human Rights

Lynne McTaggart will lead the Middle East peace intention on Thursday, Nov 9 at 10am Pacific. It will be broadcast LIVE in a studio sent to thousands of Arabs in the Gulf states,to thousands of Israelis, who will be assembled in a stadium in Jerusalem – and also to you, on your cell phone or computer. Lynne will be joined by Dr. Al-Rashed and also noted futurist Jean Houston, to speak about peace and the implications of this historic event.

With so many women speaking up recently in social media about abuse that they’ve suffered, it’s made me think about the role of men and how we define masculinity which contributes to such abuse. Any abuse of women from men is a gross imbalance of the masculine and feminine energy. Yoga means yoking together, […]

Friday’s award of the Nobel Peace Prize for 2017 to the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) draws attention to the catastrophic humanitarian consequences of any use of nuclear weapons and the global movement to abolish these weapons as the only reliable way to guarantee that they will never be used again. The award brings the reality of these consequences front and center to the world stage.

Frederick Douglass was born into slavery around 1818, and he became a key leader of the abolitionist movement. On July 5, 1852, in Rochester, New York, he gave one of his most famous speeches, “The Meaning of July Fourth for the Negro.” He was addressing the Rochester Ladies Antislavery Society. This video shows actor James Earl Jones reading the speech during a performance of historian Howard Zinn’s acclaimed book, “Voices of a People’s History of the United States.”

If self-rule is the foundation of anarchy, then, freedom is its cornerstone. We simply cannot call ourselves free if we are a statist, for statism implies that one fall under the overreaching power and outdated laws of the state, which is the opposite of freedom. Under a banner of anarchy, one can consider himself free because he falls under the laws of reason, the non-aggression principle, the Golden Rule, and cosmic law. As long as these vital laws of social survival are not violated, one can call himself free and an anarchist. As long as they are violated, one cannot claim freedom, only delusion, corruption, violence, and immorality.

For many veterans, the process of protecting those who are protesting something that affects all citizens has been deemed to be a “healing” process. “This is the right war, right side. Finally, it’s the US military coming on to Sioux land to help, for the first time in history, instead of coming on to Sioux land to kill natives.”