The Green Planet Monitor

Eighty years ago, on October 16, 1946, in the cavernous gymnasium of Nuremberg prison, in Allied-occupied Germany, ten Nazi leaders were hanged by their necks for their atrocious crimes against the people of Europe, and broader humanity. Among them, Joachim von Ribbentrop (he of the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact, leading to Nazi Germany’s invasion of Poland); senior military officers Wilhelm Keitel and Alfred Jodl; Foreign Affairs chief Alfred Rosenberg; Hans Frank, chief of the Nazi regime’s General

“The Crime of Government Against Negro People” In the summer of 1944, when Nazi death camps were known to exist, but the total number of their victims had yet to be tabulated, a Polish Jew named Rafael Lemkin came up with a word for the crime Hitler and his henchmen were committing. Genocide — the ‘crime of crimes’ — couldn’t have been a more appropriate international legal issue for the international community’s newly minted governing assembly to pronounce on, three years after its founding.

Twenty-Five Years Later, Situation Much Worse David Kattenburg The death toll in flash flooding along the Nepal-Tibet-Chinese border — triggered by the collapse of a Himalayan glacier, and ensuing tsunami of water, mud and rock — has now topped 1300. Over 4400 are missing, including 500 foreign pilgrims and trekkers from India, the UK, US, Australia and Canada. The Langtang Girung glacier’s collapse set off vibrations detected by seismologists around the world, pegged at between 4.4 to 5.2 o

Montreal City Council Dodges A- and G-Words Montreal is even-handed. This past Monday evening, the City Council of Canada’s second largest city passed a highly amended motion expressing solidarity with the Palestinian people, all the while confirming friendship and institutional ties with the apartheid state that’s been subjugating, oppressing, persecuting, and killing Palestinians for almost eighty years. The original motion, tabled by Projet Montreal and supported by 700 members of Montreal

First Nations Voices By David Kattenburg Between the winter of 1992 and spring of 1994, backpack on my back and a vintage, analog Nagra III reel-to-reel tape recorder over my shoulder, I traveled across Canada – twice — visiting places and interviewing people from Prince Edward Island to the west coast of Vancouver Island. Out of this audio-recording adventure, thirty-two hour-length docs emerged, exploring planet Earth, global ecology, and sustainable human endeavour. The Earth Chronicles, t

More Voices From Gaza Who ever heard of Henrietta Lacks? Countless people owe their health to her — perhaps even their lives. Henrietta Lacks was the daughter of Virginia sharecroppers. At the age of thirty, checked into the ‘coloured ward’ at Johns Hopkins Hospital, in Baltimore, Lacks was diagnosed with cervical cancer. In the course of surgery that followed, unbeknownst to her or her family, a piece of her cervix was removed, then passed along to a cell biology researcher. Donate with a $1