On the occasion of the presentation of its 2006/2007 Annual Report, BICC (Bonn International Center for Conversion) publishes alarming figures on military spending worldwide. With US $1,030 billion spent in 2005, the 1000 billion Dollar limit has well been broken.

Speech given by Foreign Secretary, Margaret Beckett, at the British Embassy, Berlin, 24 October 2006.

Al Gore published a new book: “An inconvenient truth – The planetary emergency of global warming and what we can do about it.”

Greenpeace celebrates that the president of Government, José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, has confirmed in the Debate of State of the Nation that the Government maintains his commitment, gathered in the electoral program of the PSOE and in the speech of investiture, to leave the nuclear energy in Spain and its announcement to make specific it so before this legislature finalizes, as  environmental NGOs called for.

Mohammad El-Ashry - Conference-Facilitator

The Israeli Knesset MP and author Uri Avneri sent this article to “Sonnenseite” on 8th Februaruy 2003.

400 intellectuals, artists and politicians from all over the world have so far signed the “Berlin Declaration” against the planned Iraq war. Among others: Günter Grass, Erhard Eppler, Friedrich Schorlemmer, Uri und Rachel Avneri, Hans Koschnik, Jakob von Uexküll, Peter Glotz und Franz Alt. This declaration has so far been translated into Spanish, English, French, Italian, German and Czech. – here in English.