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Conflict Theory and Biosphere Annihilation
Thursday, 31 May 2018, 11:42 am | Robert J. Burrowes
In a recent article titled ‘ Challenges for Resolving Complex Conflicts’ , I pointed out that existing conflict theory pays little attention to the extinction-causing conflict being ongoingly generated by human over-consumption in the finite planetary ... More >>
500 years is long enough! Human Depravity in the Congo
Saturday, 26 May 2018, 11:40 am | Robert J. Burrowes
I would like to tell you something about human depravity and illustrate just how widespread it is among those we often regard as ‘responsible’. I am going to use the Democratic Republic of the Congo as my example. More >>
Challenges for Resolving Complex Conflicts
Thursday, 12 April 2018, 1:39 pm | Robert J. Burrowes
While conflict theories and resolution processes advanced dramatically during the second half of the 20th century, particularly thanks to the important work of several key scholars such as Professor Johan Galtung – see ‘Conflict Transformation by ... More >>
Nonviolence or Nonexistence? Legacy of Martin Luther King
Tuesday, 3 April 2018, 11:30 am | Robert J. Burrowes
Fifty years ago, on 4 April 1968, the Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated. More >>
The Global Elite is Insane Revisited
Thursday, 22 March 2018, 4:53 pm | Robert J. Burrowes
In 2014 I wrote an article titled ‘The Global Elite is Insane’ . I want to elaborate what I explained in the earlier article so that people have a clearer sense of what we are up against in our struggle to create a world of peace, justice and ecological ... More >>
On Track for Extinction: Can Humanity Survive?
Saturday, 10 March 2018, 1:56 pm | Robert J. Burrowes
Anyone reading the scientific literature (or the progressive news outlets that truthfully report this literature) knows that homo sapiens sapiens is on the fast track to extinction, most likely some time between 2025 and 2040. More >>
Is Earth the Largest Garbage Dump in the Universe
Friday, 23 February 2018, 1:12 pm | Robert J. Burrowes
Is Earth the largest garbage dump in the Universe? I don’t know. But it’s a safe bet that Earth would be a contender were such a competition to be held. Let me explain why. More >>
The Fear Driving US Nuclear Strategy
Thursday, 8 February 2018, 4:19 pm | Robert J. Burrowes
The United States Department of Defense released its latest ‘Nuclear Posture Review 2018’ (NPR) on 2 February, updating the last one issued in 2010 during the previous administration. See ‘Nuclear Posture Review 2018’ . More >>
Why Fear & Self-hatred Destroy Human Sharing and Solidarity
Wednesday, 24 January 2018, 4:20 pm | Robert J. Burrowes
As our world spirals deeper into an abyss from which it is becoming increasingly difficult to extricate ourselves, some very prominent activists have lamented the lack of human solidarity in the face of the ongoing genocide of the Rohingya. See ... More >>
To Liberate Cambodia
Wednesday, 10 January 2018, 2:04 pm | Robert J. Burrowes
A long-standing French protectorate briefly occupied by Japan during World War II, Cambodia became independent in 1953 as the French finally withdrew from Indochina. Under the leadership of Prince Norodom Sihanouk, Cambodia remained officially neutral, ... More >>
Violence Against Women: UN Secretary-General Got it Wrong
Wednesday, 6 December 2017, 7:45 pm | Robert J. Burrowes
In his remarks on the recent International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women – see ‘Violence Against Women is Fundamentally About Power’ – United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres inadvertantly demonstrated why well-meaning ... More >>
Killing the Biosphere to Fast-track Human Extinction
Thursday, 30 November 2017, 9:17 pm | Robert J. Burrowes
Several years ago in Cameroon, a country in West Africa, a Western Black Rhinoceros was killed. It was the last of its kind on Earth. More >>
Why Are Police in the USA So Terrified
Thursday, 16 November 2017, 10:10 am | Robert J. Burrowes
In a recent incident in the United States, yet another unarmed man was shot dead by police after opening his front door in response to their knock. The police were going to serve an arrest warrant on a domestic violence suspect – the man’s neighbour ... More >>
A Nonviolent Strategy to End Violence
Thursday, 26 October 2017, 4:06 pm | Robert J. Burrowes
Around the world activists who are strategic thinkers face a daunting challenge to effectively tackle the multitude of violent conflicts, including the threat of human extinction, confronting human society in the early 21st century. More >>
The Psychology of Mass Killers: What causes it?
Friday, 13 October 2017, 1:21 pm | Robert J. Burrowes
In Las Vegas on 1 October 2017, it appears that one man (although it might have been more) killed 59 people and shot and injured another 241 (with almost 300 more injured while fleeing). The incident got a lot of publicity, partly because the man managed ... More >>
Ending Human Violence One Commitment at a Time
Thursday, 28 September 2017, 9:48 am | Robert J. Burrowes
Gandhi Jayanti – 2 October, the date of Mohandas K. Gandhi’s birth in 1869 and the International Day of Nonviolence – offers an opportunity to reflect on human violence and to ponder ways to end it. There may be a fast way to end human violence ... More >>
Profit Maximization is Easy: Invest in Violence
Thursday, 7 September 2017, 10:12 am | Robert J. Burrowes
For those of us committed to systematically reducing and, one day, ending human violence, it is vital to understand what is causing and driving it so that effective strategies can be developed for dealing with violence in its myriad contexts. For an understanding ... More >>
Why are all those Racists so Terrified?
Tuesday, 22 August 2017, 8:20 pm | Robert J. Burrowes
Racism is not a new phenomenon and while it is an ongoing daily reality for vast numbers of people, it also often bursts from the shadows to remind us that just because we can keep ignoring the endless sequence of ‘minor’ racist incidents, racism ... More >>
You Can't Trap the ‘Magic Rat’: Trump...
Thursday, 10 August 2017, 2:08 pm | Robert J. Burrowes
A wonderful thing about observing and analyzing the human mind is that there is a seemingly infinite variety of phenomena to observe and analyze. I sometimes wonder if it is even remotely possible to master this subject but, even if it is not, at ... More >>
Biological Annihilation on Earth Accelerating
Wednesday, 26 July 2017, 3:54 pm | Robert J. Burrowes
Human beings are now waging war against life itself as we continue to destroy not just individual lives, local populations and entire species in vast numbers but also destroy the ecological systems that make life on Earth possible. More >>
