http://oneworldmanypeaces.podbean.com Current Events Creating the Future from the Author of Peace: A World History Wed, 25 Nov 2009 00:04:04 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Being "on the same wavelength" has just gone from a dated cliché to the cutting edge of brain science. For the first time, neuroscientists have identified specific energy waves emitted during thought processing, as well as a "switch" that lets brains select which waves to focus on and which to ... http://oneworldmanypeaces.podbean.com/2009/11/24/getting-the-world-on-the-same-wavelength-literally/ Make no mistake about it, Obama's visit not only marks America's belated acknowledgement of China as a world power, perhaps the world power unless India catches up (a debatable point), but also that the two countries are showing early, hopeful signs that they realize that their interests are and must ... http://oneworldmanypeaces.podbean.com/2009/11/19/making-nonsense-of-obamas-half-brothers-surprise-surfacing-in-china/ This is one among many realities that we wish would be too bad to be true. Rabbi Yitzhak Shapira, the prominent right-wing spiritual leader in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, has openly condoned Jews killing any non-Jews, including children and babies, who pose a threat to Israel. In his new book, the ... http://oneworldmanypeaces.podbean.com/2009/11/12/jews-killing-non-jews-is-kosher-asserts-prominent-israeli-rabbi-yitzhak-shapira/ Where is a Third World War most likely to be sparked? For at least a decade before World War One began, those most concerned knew that the ongoing arms race was leading to disaster, as did those who sat on the sidelines and watched Germany and Japan build up to ... http://oneworldmanypeaces.podbean.com/2009/11/10/three-places-where-world-war-three-may-start-and-soon/ When an insect only seven people have ever seen goes extinct in a place you need a government grant to get to, more than just environmentalists feel a part of our world has gone forever. Understandably so. But what about when a language once used by thousands is down to ... http://oneworldmanypeaces.podbean.com/2009/11/05/whos-protecting-the-worlds-endangered-languages-all-7000-these-guys/ "Loss" is a word commonly heard when someone dies, as in "a loss to us" or "the world's loss." But what about what we and the world have gained because someone has lived? This may be the more inspiring and pragmatic question to ask of everyone, but especially in noting ... http://oneworldmanypeaces.podbean.com/2009/11/03/two-major-intellectuals-levi-strauss-and-ayala-die-what-the-world-has-gained/ Improving your social life and gaining immunity from Swine Flu at the same time? This sounds too good to be true because it is, according to the Center for Disease Control (CDC) and the CM (common sense). Believe it or not, people around the U.S. have been hosting-- and attending-- ... http://oneworldmanypeaces.podbean.com/2009/10/30/the-scariest-halloween-event-of-all-swine-flu-parties/ Asian states have united to officially oppose the Euro-American formula for global dominance emphasizing "peace and security" with one based on "peace and prosperity" instead, and which has a much better track record historically.  The two focal points of their meeting in Hua Hin, Thailand, was on reducing China-India tensions ... http://oneworldmanypeaces.podbean.com/2009/10/27/asian-states-initiate-eu-like-bloc-for-peace-prosperity-and-to-lead-world/ Halloween seems to be coming early to the largest and most powerful military alliance in existence anywhere today, if not ever. The former head of Canada's armed forces, a longtime member of NATO command whose soldiers are still at the front line in Afghanistan, characterizes the organization as "a corpse ... http://oneworldmanypeaces.podbean.com/2009/10/21/nato-is-a-corpse-decomposing-says-general-should-it-be-revived/ The "comprehensive strategy to confront the serious and urgent situation in Sudan" President Obama outlined yesterday was far from anything new in American diplomatic affairs, which is not to say ineffective. Actually, the shift in policy marks a sharp return to diplomatic tactics the U.S. perfected during its expansionist phase ... http://oneworldmanypeaces.podbean.com/2009/10/20/the-return-of-us-big-stick-and-dollar-diplomacy-with-olive-branch-to-sudan/ Tensions between the two most populous countries totaling about one third of world inhabitants were ratcheted up a notch this week, with no resolution in sight. Indian Prime Minister Singh strongly objected to China's new and ongoing commercial projects in Pakistan and the disputed territories it controls in Kashmir. Within ... http://oneworldmanypeaces.podbean.com/2009/10/15/china-india-tensions-rise-over-pakistan-and-kashmir-commercial-projects/ President Obama has now reached a pinnacle of global popularity cults matched only by Che Guevara. Cults of personality are a constant throughout human history, but in recent times they have been primarily based on nationality, race and/or ideology, a powerful propaganda machine and a perception of merit (think Nelson ... http://oneworldmanypeaces.podbean.com/2009/10/12/che-who-obamas-global-cult-of-personality-begins/ Bringing together scholars, activists, educators and leaders of many top local, national and international organizations, the Peace and Justice Studies Association (PJSA) conference starts today at Marquette University in Milwaukee, Wisconsin (October 8-10, 2009). This year's topic is "Exploring the Power of Nonviolence," honoring Gandhi's 140th anniversary. For live coverage ... http://oneworldmanypeaces.podbean.com/2009/10/08/launch-and-live-coverage-of-the-pjsa-conference-on-the-power-of-nonviolence/ Sweden is known for a lot of great things: it's massages, its Nobel prizes, its filmmakers, its fair dames, and let us not forget smörgåsbord with a variety of herring. Generally, however, spanking and bans on it do not come to mind... http://oneworldmanypeaces.podbean.com/2009/10/06/swedish-spanking-ban-spreads-nonviolent-culture-globally/ There is also an unacknowledged impetus bringing Chicago ahead of Rio rooted in the origins of the games themselves... http://oneworldmanypeaces.podbean.com/2009/10/01/the-olympic-peace-tradition-and-the-2016-games-candidate-cities/ Warning: the following is not for the weak at heart or those easily excitable by all things military. Chinese annual military expenditures have increased 230% since 1998 (guess how this compares to the U.S.), among other freaky facts about national military expenditures around the world... http://oneworldmanypeaces.podbean.com/2009/09/29/freaky-facts-worldwide-military-spending-figures/ "If Brasil can somehow find the key to peaceful, prompt resolution, they will win major plaudits, and many will begin to see Brazil as the new arbiter of hemispheric issues."... http://oneworldmanypeaces.podbean.com/2009/09/24/brazil-reasserts-its-regional-leadership-role-by-moderating-honduran-crisis/ The benevolent boulder that was President Obama's momentous announcement last week that the U.S. will abandon George W. Bush's planned missile shield in Eastern Europe has already begun a massive series of ripples across all the globe's oceans... http://oneworldmanypeaces.podbean.com/2009/09/22/with-missile-shield-shelved-global-detente-appears-underway/ In celebration of the United Nations International Day of Peace, September 21st (Gandhi's birthday), the star-studded Peace One Day campaign is holding an inspirational peace video contest. Along with contributions by Angelina Jolie, Ban Ki Moon, Paul McCartney, Jude Law, Alanis Morissette, Lenny Kravitz and many others, the inspirational video by ... http://oneworldmanypeaces.podbean.com/2009/09/17/peace-one-day-video-by-antony-adolf-on-peace-a-world-history/ U.S. Admiral Timothy Keating, who heads the Hawaii-based U.S. Pacific Command covering East Asia, is in his own words "very confident, almost certain, that there will be -- maybe some discussions about certain aspects of US-Japan military alliance -- but writ large no significant change." http://oneworldmanypeaces.podbean.com/2009/09/15/will-japan-remain-a-us-colony/