By Marjorie Cohn* – Truthout Human Rights and Global Wrongs Ever since U.K. Home Secretary Priti Patel formally ordered the extradition of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to the U.S. last week, press freedom advocates around the world have been mobilizing. Assange…
Ruehl* – Globetrotter / Independent Media Institute The effects of the war in Ukraine have brought much of the world’s attention to energy prices. But food insecurity is also rising and will likely get worse With some of the world’s most fertile land, Ukraine’s nickname as…
AGORÀ WAR IS A CRIME. PEACE WITH BARE HANDS On Sunday 19 June we gathered in Sezano (VR) at the Monastery of the Common Good to affirm the need and urgency to ban war, all wars, and build peace without yes or no buts.
By John Rees* – Analysis, Counterfire There is still an opportunity to overturn Priti ‘authoritarian’ Patel’s decision to extradite Julian Assange, but it will take mass resistance If you have been living on one of the remoter planets of the known…
By Stuart Streichler* – Boston Review Amidst the January 6 hearings, the fiftieth anniversary of Nixon’s scandal reminds us that it has only gotten harder to hold presidents accountable As the House January 6 committee lays out its case against Donald Trump for his part in an…
By Branko Marcetic* – Jacobin If Russia were persecuting a whistleblower like Julian Assange, the US would rightly condemn it as authoritarian abuse. But because that persecution is backed by the US, the mainstream media and American politicians are fine with it LONDON…
By Diane Bahati* – Al Jazeera According to a recent UN report, the number of people forced to flee conflict, violence, and persecution has now crossed a staggering milestone -more than 100 million Most refugees do not want to leave their homes. As a former refugee, I want safety…
By David Barsamian and Noam Chomsky(*) – TomDispatch How George Orwell’s Doublethink Became the Way of the World David Barsamian: Let’s head into the most obvious nightmare of this moment, the war in Ukraine and its effects globally. But first a little background.
By Sania Farooqui* NEW DELHI, India, Jun 17 2022 (IPS) – Gynophobia is defined as an intense and irrational fear of women or hatred of women, it may be characterized as a form of specific phobias, which involves a fear that is centered on a specific trigger or situation, which…
Dear Readers, Please add the signatures of former European Commission President and former Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi and former Spanish Foreign Minister Miguel Angel Moratinos to the document “Achieving a Just and Lasting Peace in Ukraine”, distributed by Other News on…
