By Stephen Bryen* – Asia Times Ukraine has likely lost 100,000 soldiers who won’t readily be replaced while US arms deliveries are depleting stocks and exposing security holes in Asia In a shocking statement that has now been withdrawn, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen wrote that Ukraine has...

By Francine Mestrum* November 2022 will be remembered for both COP27 and the Qatar World Cup. Will both be evenly disappointing? It is good news that more and more people and organisations are now promoting a new eco-social contract, as is Jayathi Ghosh. It means that necessarily all social justice...

By Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies (*) – CODEPINK As the war in Ukraine has dragged on for nine months and a cold winter is setting in, people all over the world are calling for a Christmas truce, harkening back to the inspirational Christmas Truce of 1914. In...

By Frank Bracho* On a Public Open Universal Plead, they call on the Montreal Summit to fully deliver on what the earlier UN Summits in Glasgow and Sharm El Sheik have utterly fallen short! … More responsible and audacious substantial actions -and no more empty acrobatic technical accords, is what...

Editorial – The Guardian Huge subsidies for US-based low-carbon manufacturers are posing big problems for EU leaders In a slick General Motors advert aired during last year’s Super Bowl, the actor and comedian Will Ferrell took patriotic umbrage at Norway’s ability to sell more electric vehicles per capita than the...