How Military-Industrial Complex Sidelined Peace and Disarmament: Part 4
The year 1961 culminated with the fervent hope for concrete progress towards disarmament, but that hope is severely dented even sixty years on.
Balancing National Security and Fundamental Rights in Environmental Cases
Reckless, short-sighted, rapid and uncontrolled changes are being made in the Himalayas which are causing incalculable loss and damage to an already fragile ecosystem.
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U.S. Shouldn’t Be Invited to Summit for Democracy, Let Alone Be its Host
While opting to snub Russia and China from the summit, the US has invited many countries which can hardly be classified as democratic: from apartheid Israel, to Brazil, whose leader Jair Bolsonaro this summer declared that “only God can oust me.”
World Inequality
The world has become more unequal in income and wealth in the last 40 years. That’s according to the World Inequality Report 2022. According to the WIR, the richest 10% of adults in the world own around 60-80% of wealth, while the poorest half have less than 5%.
Edward Bernays: Propaganda and the U.S.-Backed 1954 Guatemalan Coup
Whether selling cigarettes or deposing world leaders, Edward Bernays molded reality like clay. In his hands, words spun like so many hollow jars. However, the one constant, the one truth among his many distortions, is that Bernays had no use for the truth.
The Ukraine: The USA Is Responsible for the Escalation, and Must Stop it Before Provoking a World War
The particular and very dangerous form of the present-day “Ukrainian crisis” has arisen as a result of the way in which the USSR was destroyed; and of the coup engineered by Nuland, Brenner and Pyatt in Kiev, back in 2014.
USA Loses Ethiopia; Biggest Strategic Blunder Since Loss of Iran
With the failure of the US-backed TPLF terrorist coup attempt against the democratically elected government of Ethiopia, the USA is facing its greatest strategic blunder since losing Iran in 1979.
UN and AU Endorse Sudan’s Coup Government, the Streets Do Not
Protesters are not convinced by the UN and AU’s position that democracy can be won by accepting a government where the real levers of power are held by the military while a cabinet of technocrats is paraded before the international community to maintain the facade of ‘joint military-civilian rule’.
The Driver of Dispossession
The author explains the social and legal legacies of a 15th-century Christian principle that paved the way for imperial violence in, and far beyond, New Zealand.
How ‘Big Oil’ Works the System and Keeps Winning
Despite countless investigations, lawsuits, social shaming, and regulations dating back decades, the oil and gas industry remains formidable. It has made consuming its products seem like a human necessity, confused the public about climate science, and repeatedly out-maneuvered regulatory efforts.