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The Hour is Getting Late: Report from the United States
“Report from America” to Gesuikyo’s annual international conference on the anniversary of the Bikini H-bombing By Joseph Gerson, Friends, Battered by U.S. and Russian aggressions, the survival of the U.N., its charter, and international law are in jeopardy. Expiration of New START, inadequate though it was, eliminated the last remaining U.S.-Russian arms control agreement. China is…
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Life, Experience, and Beyond – Why the Future Is the Priority
On the same day, two things happened that had no direct connection—but when I thought about them together, I began to see a relationship that wasn’t obvious at first. The first concerned artificial intelligence. AI does not experience what it does. It does not know when it makes a mistake because it lacks what humans…
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Periodisme, desinformació i comerç d’armes amb Israel: claus per fiscalitzar el relat oficial
Una jornada al Col·legi de Periodistes de Catalunya analitza com els mitjans informen sobre les relacions armamentístiques entre Espanya i Israel i reclama més verificació, dades contrastades i fiscalització política. En ple context de greus vulneracions del dret internacional humanitari contra el poble palestí i de creixent pressió social per un embargament d’armes efectiu, l’11…
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SIPRI hosts Geneva briefing on stability in space
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Students and Teachers Co-Create IEC Materials on Mental Health, Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health, and Disaster Preparedness in Ozamiz City
Ozamiz City, Philippines — In an inspiring demonstration of adolescent leadership, students and teachers from Ozamiz City joined forces to co-create digital and print Information, Education, and Communication (IEC) materials addressing mental health, adolescent sexual and reproductive health, and disaster preparedness. The two-day workshop was held on February 25–26, 2026, at Bethany Gardens Resort in…
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Legal sovereignty in the face of orbital power
In the dispute between the Brazilian State and Starlink, the government of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has embodied an active defense of legal sovereignty in the era of global private infrastructures. More than a personal conflict with Elon Musk, the episode reveals a structural tension between technology corporations with planetary reach and States seeking…
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The Impunity of Musk to Defame Claudia Sheinbaum
“She’s just saying what her cartel bosses tell her to say.” (She is only saying what her cartel bosses tell her to say.) “Let’s just say that their punishment for disobedience is a little worse than a ‘performance improvement plan’.” (Let’s just say that their punishment for disobedience is a little worse than a “performance…
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More than a third of the United States fleet positioned around Iran: open war imminent
An unprecedented deployment The United States has concentrated between 30 and 40 percent of its operational naval fleet in the vicinity of the Persian Gulf and the Arabian Sea, in a maneuver reminiscent of the preparations prior to the invasion of Iraq in 2003. The scale of the deployment is not symbolic. It involves the…
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The Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons needs a brother!
There are quite a few movies depicting nuclear war and its aftermath. One of them is based on Neil Shute’s “On the Beach”, a book that has awakened Helen Caldicott’s concern about nuclear weapons. The film “The day after” is said to have inspired President Ronald Reagan to de-escalate his arms race with the…
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The Pentagon v. Anthropic: AI between the sword and ethics
This Friday, February 27, 2026, marks the deadline set by the United States Department of Defense for Anthropic to remove the ethical restrictions from its Claude model within the framework of its military contract. The ultimatum was communicated only days earlier, in terms that resembled less an institutional negotiation than direct pressure: either the safeguards…