By Sara Perria Jul 20 2021 (IPS) – The third wave of Covid-19 is sweeping through Myanmar, from the high narrow buildings of the commercial capital Yangon to bamboo houses in rural areas. Ma Ni, not her real name, caught the virus in Yangon, infected by her husband and son. But…
Radio Free Asia (RFA) * At least 15 bodies found in a remote jungle were brutally tortured and executed, villagers say. The murder of more than a dozen people whose bodies exhibited signs of torture and were left to rot in a forest in Myanmar’s remote Sagaing region this week…
By Tamim Ansary * – The Guardian The US and British withdrawal has set off panic, but the truth is they were exacerbating the problem they were trying to solve Friends keep asking me to sign petitions urging President Biden to change his mind about withdrawing troops from…
By Aisha Jumaan and Charles Pierson (*) – Common Dreams While he is a welcome change from the incompetence, venality, and cruelty of the Trump Administration, Biden has continued the Obama and Trump Administrations’ support for the Saudi-led war on Yemen In his first major…
By Natasha Lindstaedt* – The Conversation Afghanistan is falling apart. With US and Nato troops leaving the country earlier than planned, experts are warning that the Taliban could take control of the country within six months. Currently the insurgents control the strategically…
By Tom Engelhardt* – TomDispatch Three-Quarters of a Century of Nuclear Follies — And That’s Just Where to Begin Yes, once upon a time I regularly absorbed science fiction and imagined futures of wonder, but mainly of horror. What else could you think, if you read H.G.
By Jacek Bartosiak * -Geopolitical Futures A theory used to explain the Peloponnesian War can also be applied to the growing tensions between the U.S. and China Roughly 2,400 years ago, Thucydides, a Greek historian and author of “History of the Peloponnesian War,”…
By Amy Goodman* – Democracy Now! Andrew Bacevich, president and co-founder of the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft.
By John Washington* – The Nation A decade after the first shots were fired, cities are in ruins, over half a million Syrians have died, and more than ten million have been displaced “Bombing, bombing, bombing”—that’s how Ahmad Yassin Leila recently described the whirlwind…
By John Scales Avery* A new freely downloadable book I would like to announce the publication of a book, which discusses the reasons why the institution of war continues to threaten human civilization and the biosphere, and the steps that might be taken to rid the world of war…
