By Andy Douglas No Other Land is a joint Israeli-Palestinian film which won Best Documentary Feature at the 2025 Academy Awards. I had the opportunity…
by Dada Maheshvarananda The Second World War, in which nearly 70 million people were killed, vividly demonstrated the folly of the concept of “master races”,…
The 2024 film “Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat” (a nominee for Best Documentary Feature at the 2025 Academy Awards) is a smart, insightful look at a riveting if little-remembered episode in 20th century history: the assassination of Congolese leader and Pan-Africanist Patrice Lumumba.
Economic growth, especially as charted by GDP, has long been the conventional measuring stick for the health of an economy, but in recent years the glaring inadequacies and drawbacks of growth for its own sake have become quite clear. One current proposed corrective to this is the concept of degrowth.
By Andy Douglas I’ve been helping to start a new Prout-inspired project in my hometown of Iowa City, Iowa, in the US. By sharing about…
By Andy Douglas Ever wonder why our political systems seem to change so little, although the leaders we elect may vary? Perhaps it’s a systemic…
By Shriraksha Mohan In the long history of human civilization, humanity has witnessed an evolution in the ways our societies and economies have? been organized…
By Miguel Pacheco Ever since we climbed out of the trees, we humans have lived in closely knit, self-governing communities, deeply dependent on one another.…
By Shriraksha Mohan, Andy Douglas, and Howard Nemon In most political democracies, elections have become a mere formality of choosing a leader who appears to…
By Howard Nemon Capitalism boasts of its ability to motivate people to produce more wealth which, in turn, benefits everyone. While the latter part of…
By Andy Douglas Nobody knows for sure what the future holds. But we can conjure glimpses. In his new book, The End of the World…
By Dada Jitendrananda The propounder of Prout, Shrii P R Sarkar, first became known in India in the 1950s as a spiritual teacher. His rational…
On the Internet we have seen that many people want to drink smoothies as nourishment. Grinding hard kale leaves with a blender is an excellent…
By Andy Douglas An anthropology professor of mine once opined that socialism has not yet gotten a chance to show what it can do. We…
By Roar Bjonnes In the pursuit of global harmony and social progress, the concept of humanism and internationalism emerges as a beacon of progressive hope.…
By Dada Jitendrananda Most people share values of fairness and justice. We want everyone to be able to lead a happy and fulfilling life. The…
By Andy Douglas Audio Version: Is Prout a form of socialism? Socialism with a spiritual face? Or is it something completely different? Anyone who critiques…
By Dada Jitendrananda This reflection on history was prompted by the vexed debate on the teaching of history that flares up from time to time…