The Will of the People in Global Decline
by Thomas Klikauer and Danny Antonelli While many of us believe that we live in a democracy – representing the United Nation’s “will of the people”, the “general will”, and…
World
The ‘Food Transition’ Is a War on Food, Farmers and the Public
This article begins with a short video based on an interview with researcher Sandi Adams, who describes the plans for agriculture in the rural county of Somerset in south-west England…
From Nazi Medicine to Informed Consent
Much has been written on the issue of Nazi medicine during the almost eighty years that have passed since Germany’s liberation from Nazism. It also has been eighty-five years since…
‘Problematic Sovereignty’: China and Taiwan
Taiwan calls itself as Republic of China [ROC]. “The ROC Constitution was adopted on December 25, 1946, by the National Assembly convened in Nanking. It was promulgated by the National…
Climate Crisis And Nuclear Waste In The U.S.
Climate crisis could disturb Cold War-era nuclear waste buried by the U.S. decades ago, according to a U.S. federal report. An ABC News report (Climate change could unearth, disturb Cold…
Aaron Bushnell’s Divine Violence
Aaron Bushnell’s self-immolation was ultimately a religious act, one that radically delineates good and evil and calls us to resist. Aaron Bushnell, when he placed his cell phone on the…
An Open Letter to the Women of the Congressional Progressive Caucus
Specifically Jasmine Crockett, Eleanor Holmes Norton, Jill Tokuda, Grace Napolitano Sylvia Garcia, Val Hoyle, Lisa Blunt Rochester, Sheila Jackson Lee, Frederica Wilson, Sydney Kamlager-Dove, Jennifer McClellan, Lori Trahan, Madeleine Dean,…
Trump’s Justice
In 1868, British Prime Minister William Gladstone famously said, “Justice delayed is justice denied.” The phrase has often been repeated here in the United States, most famously by the Reverend…
The Polish-West Ukrainian Conflict over East Galicia in 1918−1919
The eastern portion of Europe and the end of WWI The end of WWI resulted in significant changes concerning the political boundaries of Central, East, and South-East Europe. For the…
Recent surveys re-emphasize the need for negotiations to end the Ukraine war
Three recent surveys have re-emphasized the need for ending the Ukraine war as early as possible. According to the results of a survey by Harris Poll and the Quincy Institute…
Alabama Ruling And U.S. Women’s Panic
In view of the Alabama’s Supreme Court’s recent decision on frozen embryos (in-vitro fertilization or IVF), the women in the U.S. are in panic. A fortune.com report (After Alabama’s IVF…
China Urges A ‘No-First-Use’ Treaty
States with the largest nuclear arsenals should negotiate a treaty on no-first-use of nuclear weapons against each other or make a political statement in this regard, the Chinese foreign ministry's…
Aaron Bushnell’s Ultimate Protest
The live-streaming and subsequent videos of US active duty airman Aaron Bushnell’s extreme sacrifice in front of the Israeli Embassy in Washington, D.C. on Sunday 25 February 2024 should make…
Being alive is tough and even untenable sometimes …
Recently a person in the US Air Force killed himself in front of the US Isreali Embassy. He ended his life in protest of the genocide of the Palestinians. His…
Prabowo Subianto: Indonesia’s Defense Minister Poised for Presidency Amid Allegations of Controversial Past
As preliminary results hint at Prabowo Subianto’s victory in Indonesia’s presidential race, political tension rises with Ganjar Pranowo and Anies Baswedan seeking an inquiry into alleged irregularities. Beyond the election…
Why Would Anyone Kill Themselves to Stop a War?
In the past three months, two people in the United States have taken or risked taking their own lives in an attempt to change U.S. policies on Palestine and call…
Earthquake Recovery in Morocco: All “Phases” at Once
Six months after a devastating earthquake in Morocco, Dr. Yossef Ben-Meir reflects on lessons learned from leading a Moroccan-U.S. civil organization - the High Atlas Foundation - fully engaged in…
International Scientific and Practical Conference – “Hybrid Security of the World Majority”
Resolution on the results of the international scientific and practical conference on "Hybrid security of the World Majority" which was held on February 17, 2024 & coordinated online from Moscow.…
Old Problems with the New: Reforming the UN Security Council
The end of the Second World War was a calamitous catalyst, laying the bricks and mortar for institutions that were always going to look weary, almost comically so, after some…
What Does Maternal Mortality Rate Tell Us About Contemporary USA?
Maternal Mortality Rate (MMR) (measured per 100,000 live births) is a widely used human development indicator. In addition this also has a strong emotional connect and any country would normally…
Imperial Venality Defends Itself: Day Two of Julian Assange’s High Court Appeal
On February 21, the Royal Courts of Justice hosted a second day of carnivalesque mockery regarding the appeal by lawyers representing an ill Julian Assange, whose publishing efforts are being…
Julian Assange’s Grand Inquisitor
The prosecution lawyers in the High Court seeking to ensure Julian’s extradition to the U.S. rely almost exclusively on the judicial opinions of Gordon Kromberg, a highly controversial U.S. attorney.…
China, Russia pip US to the Taliban hearth
The diplomatic recognition of the Taliban government in Afghanistan on January 31, 2024 by China must be bracketed with two other far-reaching regional policy moves by Beijing in the post-cold…
The Mongol Eurasian Empire 1206−1405: The Greatest Continental State in the World’s History
History remembers the Mongols as a pastoral nomadic people from Central Asia who made a significant impression on the world’s history. In essence, the Mongol territorial occupation was of a…
Identifying Imperial Venality: Day One of Julian Assange’s High Court Appeal
On February 20, it was clear that things were not going to be made easy for Julian Assange, the WikiLeaks founder who infuriated the US imperium, the national security establishment,…
After Two Years of War in Ukraine, It’s Time for Peace
by Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies As we mark two full years since Russia invaded Ukraine, Ukrainian government forces have withdrawn from Avdiivka, a town they first captured…
Canada’s System of Social Welfare Development and Poverty
Mohammad Momin Khawaja All welfare states aim at providing planned humanitarian assistance to its citizens and attempt to address the on-going problems of poverty and how to serve the diverse…
Julian Assange’s Day in Court
Julian Assange’s lawyers — in a final bid on Tuesday to stop his extradition — fought valiantly to poke holes in the case of the prosecution to obtain an appeal.…
War, Gain And Loss – U.S. And Europe
U.S. is gaining from war in Europe. A Wall Street Journal report (How War in Europe Boosts the U.S. Economy, Sun, Feb 18, 2024) said: ‘Proponents of support for Ukraine usually invoke…
“Emergent” AI Behavior and Human Destiny
Yes, it’s already time to be worried — very worried. As the wars in Ukraine and Gaza have shown, the earliest drone equivalents of “killer robots” have made it onto the battlefield and proved to…
Germany’s Newest Far-Right Party
by Thomas Klikauer and Danny Antonelli Surrounded by menacing and bullish looking security guards, the former boss of the domestic intelligence agency BfV [a kind of west-German Stasi] and outspoken…
China ignores US entreaties of mediation
There is an old proverb that when misfortunes come, they come in battalions. Coming on top of reports of American soldiers going down like nine-pins on a drone strike against the super…
‘Breaking the Mold’: How Facebook Became the NYT of the Digital Age
"If you try to break the mold, you’re not going to last long," famed linguist and cultural critic Noam Chomsky wrote in an essay published in Z Magazine in October…
Joe Biden: The Damnation of Age
He was sweet and well meaning, but he was old. He was hazy. His memory was poor. Doddering, confused, the self-proclaimed leader of the Free World seemed ready to check…
Julian Assange’s Final Appeal
Julian Assange will make his final appeal this week to the British courts to avoid extradition. If he is extradited it is the death of investigations into the inner workings…
War Emerging Increasingly as Existential Threat
War has always been a source of immense human distress. What is more important to point out is that its capacity to cause distress and destruction has been increasing in…
North Korea’s Transformation on Peaceful Reunification Marks Paradigm Shift in Asia
Abandoning peaceful reunification could escalate into a major conflict, or signify that the window for reunification is presently closed, prompting Pyongyang to explore alternative approaches. Late 2023 marked a notable…
Anti-Far-Right Rallies in Germany
It appears as if Germany’s somewhat sleepy and largely depoliticized middle-class has woken up. Mass rallies against the far-right suddenly broke out as a secret meeting was uncovered; and, the…
Throwing Out the Constitution: Donald Trump vs. the 14th Amendment
When the Civil War ended in 1865, the 76-year-old Constitution needed an upgrading and those leading the country did indeed dramatically transform it with the passage of the 13th, 14th,…
Banning What Matters: Public Libraries Under MAGA Threat
When my mother died in 2000, I inherited all her books. Sadly, after several moves and downsizings over the decades, her collection had shrunk. Still, it remains considerable and impressive…
Fundamentalists Have the Upper Hand in the Upcoming Parliamentary Elections in Iran
Iran's Parliamentary elections is scheduled to be held on March 1, 2024. The elections will be for the twelfth term of the 290 seats of the Islamic Consultative Majles (House…
Recent Study Compares Reality and Rhetoric of Chinese Development Projects in Developing Countries
There has been a lot of debate about the impacts of the highly ambitious development interventions and projects of China in other developing countries. In this context a recent analysis…
When Times Were Better: Victoria’s Ties with Israel’s Defence Industry
Times were supposedly better in 2022. That is, if you were a lawmaker in the Australian state of Victoria, a busy Israeli arms manufacturer, or cash counting corporate middleman keen…
Tanzanian farmers and pastoralists hit by double whammy of corporate farming and tourism projects
At a time of increasingly adverse weather conditions related to climate change, there is growing urgency of adopting protective policies towards small farmers and pastoralists. Unfortunately, it is in these…
Full Speed Ahead on the Global Titanic, Going Along with the Utter Madness of Nuclear Weapons
Yes, the Doomsday Clock keeps ticking — it’s now at 90 seconds to midnight, according to the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists — but the ultimate time bomb never gets the attention that it…
Mobilizing Against Germany’s Far-Right – Three Key Insights
Since the Wannsee 2.0 scandal broke in Germany in early 2024, roughly 1½ million people have been rallying against the far-right, right-wing extremists, and the neo-fascist AfD. At the recent…
How Long Has Humanity Been at War With Itself?
Is large-scale intra-specific warfare Homo sapiens’ condition or can our species strive to achieve global peace? The famous American astronomer Carl Sagan once said, “You have to know the past to understand…
Real Risks On The Prowl
When the world was ushering in 2024 cautiously amid rife speculative analysis of the global security ahead in a relatively pessimistic mood, the foiled attempt of purported “colour revolution” in…
The ‘Good Old Days’ ( Compared to This)
Baby boomers like this writer usually reminisce about past days, replete with the great music ,sports and styles we enjoyed. Yes, growing up in ' The garden spot of the…
The Last Superpower?
I was born on July 20, 1944, almost two years after Joe Biden arrived on this planet and almost a year before You Know Who, like me, landed in New…
Right to Information Reveals New Facts That Re-emphasize Urgency of Improving Bio-Safety
Recently a health advocacy group called US Right to Know has used the freedom of information legislation in the USA to obtain several documents which are being widely quoted in…
US escalation against Iran threatens all-out war in the Middle East
On Friday, the United States carried out airstrikes on seven locations throughout Iraq and Syria, in what US officials said were the beginning of weeks or even months of attacks…
Half Of Americans In New Poll Say Israel Has Gone Too Far In Gaza War
Exactly half of Americans say Israel has “gone too far” in its military response in Gaza, according to a new survey. The Associated Press and NORC Center for Public Affairs…
Current European Farmer’s agitations share similar issues with Indian Farmers
For the last two weeks farmers are agitating all across the Europe. Their major demand being is primarily against denial of an assured and rightful price for their produce.…
Unaccountable Hackers: The CIA, Vengeance and Joshua Schulte
The release of the Vault 7 files in the spring of 2017 in a series of 26 disclosures, detailing the hacking tools of the US Central Intelligence Agency, was one…
“The ‘Reality’ Around Us Is Constructed By Liars “Journalists are war criminals” Julian Assange Explains
Albert Einstein argued that “private capital tends to become concentrated in few hands”, resulting in “an oligarchy of private capital the enormous power of which cannot be effectively checked even by a…
Cleaning Out the Basement of My Life, And Grappling with Nuclear Dangers at 90 Seconds to Midnight
What’s in your basement? Mine is full of things I’ve mostly forgotten about — tools I bought for projects I never completed, long abandoned sports equipment, furniture I planned on…
Forget The Kids: Social Media, Congress and Child Safety
It was a struggle to see how a child’s welfare was relevant in the latest, shrill debates about technology taking place on The Hill. The Senate Judiciary Committee and the…
The Concept of Just War and Outlines of the Just War Theory in IR
As a matter of historical fact, since human beings have been living in settled communities (villages, towns, cities), they have sought to protect themselves against different types of military threats…
US unleashes military strikes in Iraq and Syria, targeting Iran
The United States launched on Friday night what officials billed as a weeks- or months-long campaign in the Middle East targeting Iran. US President Joe Biden sent nuclear-capable B-1B bombers…
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