Chile’s Feminists are the Memory of the Future
In 2019, Chile exploded in a mass uprising against authoritarian neoliberalism. What role did the Chilean feminist movement play in fomenting this revolt?
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Nuclear Weapons and World Order: a Dialogue
The world is more dangerous than at any time since the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 and the battlelines between the nuclear weapons states and governmental and civil society anti-nuclearism has never been more definitively drawn. A dialogue between two renowned anti-nuclear activists.
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Global Warming Impacting Arctic and Antarctic; Permafrost Also Melting: Earth on Cusp of Catastrophe – Three Articles
2021 Arctic Report Card Tells a Human Story of Cascading Climate Disruption; What if the Doomsday Glacier Collapses?; Climate Crisis at the Top of the World: Global Orders and Catastrophic Change.
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Highland Resistance: How the Che Guevara Commune Confronts the Crisis (Part I)
First-hand accounts of the impact of the US sanctions on a coffee and cocoa growing commune in the Venezuelan Andes.
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The Judicial Kidnapping of Julian Assange
“Let us look at ourselves, if we have the courage, to see what is happening to us.” These words of Jean-Paul Sartre should echo in all our minds following the grotesque decision of Britain’s High Court to extradite Julian Assange to the United States where he faces “a living death”. This is his punishment for the crime of authentic, accurate, courageous, vital journalism.
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The Fierce Determination of Ordinary People to Build an Extraordinary World
United States President Joe Biden has suborned 111 countries to attend his Summit for Democracy on December 9–10, ending on Human Rights Day. In the name of democracy, the U.S. government is pushing its own agenda to consolidate power and further its national interests.
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High Court Delivers ‘Victory’ for Rights of Nature Movement in Ecuador
On December 1, the Constitutional Court of Ecuador ruled that mining in a protected forest violates the rights of nature established by the nation’s constitution.
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Nuns Against Nuclear Weapons: Plowshares Protesters have Fought for Disarmament for Over 40 Years, Going to Prison for Peace
Since 1980, there have been over 100 actions in support of nuclear disarmament by Plowshare nuns in the U.S., the U.K. and Europe. The name comes from the Bible: “They shall beat their swords into plowshares … nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.”
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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.
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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.”
