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Jeremy Corbyn and Noam Chomsky receive the prestigious international MacBride Peace Prize #guestblog

On Friday December 8th 2017 this wonderful person got a long over due merit. TBH©

Kitty S Jones's avatarPolitics and Insights

Jeremy Corbyn was awarded the Sean MacBride Peace Prize along with Noam Chomsky and Japanese anti-military base activists, yet the award received no coverage in the British media. It was International Human Rights day today. Corbyn made an outstanding speech in Geneva, but the UK media unbelievably appear to have vetoed what ought to have been headline news.

So it’s been left to a handful independent journalists and writers like me to report this event.

The International Peace Bureau presents the prestigious Sean MacBride Peace Prize to individuals, organisations or movements for their work for peace, disarmament and human rights. 

Sean MacBride was a founding member of Amnesty International, a hugely well-known and successful charity that was set up by…

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by Tiffany Belle Harper

wildflowers and balance make nature

There’s a lot of depressed millionaires. It’s not about being ‘rich’ or ‘poor.’ It is about finding a balance that is not a result of peaks and troughs. Because to me, what matters most is the state of our planet. If we collectively worked more towards looking after nature we wouldn’t have time to be vain and self indulgent. Love is the Answer.

I mean, you can be filthy rich and not have any style or decorum. Or a busker who sings like an Angel that lives in a caravan on top of a hill. I hope one day people work together instead of driving one another apart – just for the sake of ego. Because ego will not grow earth’s wildflowers and it certainly won’t stop forest fires or earthquakes. Ego is just a pitiful emotion that fades by the day. Ego is just a temporary blip. Soon to vanish.

Those who think ‘how can I appear better than anyone else.’ Will not ever be at peace and that’s why they strive to ‘try’ and make sure nobody else is either. TBH©

by Tiffany Belle Harper