By Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. 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.
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…
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…
By Vijay Prashad* / Globetrotter, Independent Media Institute On November 21, 2022, Mali’s interim Prime Minister Colonel Abdoulaye Maïga posted a statement on social media to say that Mali has decided “to ban, with immediate effect, all activities carried out by NGOs operating…
By Modern Diplomacy Newsroom “Zelensky comes out of the process smelling really bad as he has worked assiduously at blaming Russia, which clearly is not true,” – writes Philip Giraldi from Ron Paul Institute. One week ago, he reminds, the Ukrainian government may have…
By Carter Dillard* – Independent Media Institute Progress is being undone by growth, especially as the climate crisis deepens. In all of the news surrounding Vladimir Putin, it might have been easy to overlook that he had recently revived a Soviet-era policy called the “Mother…
By Laura Carlsen* – CounterPunch website The Conservative Political Action Conference, CPAC, staged its latest far right extravaganza in Mexico this weekend. The gathering provided a perversely mesmerizing glimpse into the strategies, illusions, lies and objectives of the global…
By Riccardo Petrella* On the European Parliament resolution of October 5, 2022 on water as a human right According to UNICEF and WHO, 1 in 3 people do not have access to safe water. Today, nearly 2.2 billion people do not have access to water and 3.6 billion people worldwide…
By Barbara Moens, Jakob Hanke Vela and Jacopo Barigazzi – POLITICO EU officials attack Joe Biden over sky-high gas prices, weapons sales and trade as Vladimir Putin’s war threatens to destroy Western unity Nine months after invading Ukraine, Vladimir Putin is beginning to…
By Frank Vogl* – The Globalist What sets democracy apart from autocracy is that no citizen is above the law A defining feature of a democracy that sets it sharply apart from autocracy is that no citizen is above the law. Donald Trump believes he enjoys unique impunity.
