Celebrating Mother’s Day 2023 for Peace

Women’s Rights and Social Justice: Julia Ward Howe’s 1870 Anti-War Mother’s Day Proclamation, A Day of Peace By Dr. Gary G. Kohls, May 14, 2023 Mother’s Day in America was officially established in 1914 (May 9) as an annual holiday, but no mention was made by President Wilson that Howe wanted the day dedicated as a day of peace. Wilson instead said it was to commemorate America’s mothers.

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Remember Mother’s Day Amid the COVID-19 Lockdown. Your Government Doesn’t Allow You to “Hug your Mom”. By Maya Chossudovsky-Ladouceur, May 14, 2023 Remember Mother’s Day on the 10th of May 2020, [3 years ago] the day families gather together, the day people in many countries around the World celebrate motherhood in every shape and form whether it be expectant mothers, the memory of mothers who have passed, step-mothers, grand-mothers… Mother’s Day is a family celebration which honors motherhood. This year, Mother’s Day 2020 will be etched in people’s memory forever but unfortunately not for the right reasons.

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The Flower Industry’s Impacts on Colombia on Mother’s Day By Dr. Birsen Filip, May 14, 2023 In addition to its picturesque natural beauty, music, dancing, and coffee, Colombia is also well-known for producing many different varieties of flowers that are long-lasting and of a high quality. Ideal climate conditions that include very fertile soil and 12 hours of sunlight every day of the year, in addition to lower production costs, make Colombian farms perfect locations for the production of this cash crop.

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U.S. Meddling Contributed to the Russia-Ukraine War, It’s Time We Stop Meddling Around the World By Scott Horton, May 15, 2023 No matter what the War Party claims about Russian President Vladimir Putin’s supposed desire to reinstate the Soviet Union or Russian empire, the fact is that this war was provoked by the United States, and — no surprise — particularly the neoconservatives.

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Biden Unilaterally Extends ‘National Emergency’ Targeting Syria By The Cradle, May 15, 2023 On 8 May, US President Joe Biden signed a new one-year extension for the “national emergency” declared concerning Syria, just one day after the Arab League approved Damascus’ reentry to the bloc despite Washington’s objections.

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On Soft Power: How to Measure Soft Power, Actors of Soft Power, Foreign Policy and Soft Power? By Dr. Vladislav B. Sotirović, May 12, 2023 As social power is to a very extent a kind of social capital, the measurement of soft power is, in principle, difficult from the methodological viewpoint concerning social sciences. Methodologically, some indicators are usually used to measure the size of hard power, like geographical resources, economic power, or military potential.

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Syria, Alas: Is There Reason for Optimism? By Barbara Nimri Aziz, May 12, 2023 We have a stingy agreement from most Arab League countries that Syria, one of its founding members, one of the area’s strongest Arab nationalist members, one whose policy has been the most uncompromising toward Israel, is readmitted to that capricious club. This assembly, however august, is hardly a potent force— having lost much of its influence after the destruction and defanging of another once-core member, Iraq.

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Turkey-Syria Reconciliation “Would End the US Presence in the Region”. Interview with Aydin Sezer By Aydin Sezer and Steven Sahiounie, May 12, 2023 Western media have described Sunday’s presidential election in Turkey and the most important vote in the world in 2023. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan was first elected Prime Minister in May 2003, and since then he has also been elected President. The election on May 14 is between the incumbent Erdogan and Kemal Kilicdaroglu, who promises to improve Turkey’s relationship with the US.

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Blood and Treasure: United States Budgetary Costs and Human Costs of 20 Years of War in Iraq and Syria, 2003-2023 By Prof. Neta C. Crawford, May 12, 2023 This paper examines the total costs of the war in Iraq and Syria, which are expected to exceed half a million human lives and $2.89 trillion. This budgetary figure includes costs to date, estimated at about $1.79 trillion, and the costs of veterans’ care through 2050.

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Russia Concludes Investigations on Donbass Genocide By Lucas Leiroz de Almeida, May 11, 2023 After in-depth investigations, the number of civilian casualties in the Donbass genocide has finally been revealed. A Russian committee was for a long time in charge of ascertaining the precise number of dead and wounded civilians in the conflict, as well as the data of each of the identified victims.

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