John Lennon was shot 28 years ago this month, but his widow, now 75, travels the world preaching peace and love in his name – and in her art. Here she tells Miranda Sawyer about begging for food as a child in wartime Japan, her two husbands before John, and the daughter who was hidden from [...]
He exposed the My Lai massacre, revealed Nixon’s secret bombing of Cambodia and has hounded Bush and Cheney over the abuse of prisoners in Abu Ghraib … No wonder the Republicans describe Seymour Hersh as “the closest thing American journalism has to a ‘terrorist.’” Rachel Cooke meets the most-feared investigative reporter in Washington. Every so [...]
Yoko Ono’s Speech LennonOno Grant for Peace Ceremony October 9, 2008 Hofdi House, Reykjavik, Iceland Dear Friends Here we are together at one of the most tumultuous periods not only in the history of Iceland, but in the recent history of the world. It is easy to think that everything we have been striving for [...]
Friðarsúlan í Viðey er myndefni á frímerki sem Pósturinn gefur út 9. október. Friðarsúlan Ljós Friðarsúlunnar í Viðey verður tendrað þann 9. október að viðstaddri listakonunni Yoko Ono. Pósturinn gefur út frímerki sama dag tileinkað Friðarsúlunni og þeim friðarboðskap sem hún er tákn um. Útilistaverkið var reist í Viðey í Kollafirði á síðasta ári til [...]
With Soil Not Oil, Vandana Shiva connects the dots between industrial agriculture and climate change. Shiva shows that a world beyond dependence on fossil fuels and globalization is both possible and necessary. Condemning industrial agriculture as a recipe for ecological and economic disaster, Shiva’s champion is the small, independent farm: their greater productivity, their greater potential [...]
