by Gunter Pauli* On June 4 to 6, 1979 The Government of Salzburg and UNESCO hosted over 100 academics and pedagogues to debate the Report to the Club of Rome entitled “No Limits to Learning: Bridging the Human Gap”. It was my first Club of Rome meeting. As guest of Dr…
Published by NachDenkSeiten – a German alternative news platform Statement by Reiner Braun (*) in the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Bundestag Delivered on June 20, 2023 On June 19, there was an expert hearing in the Foreign Affairs Committee of the…
Editorial – The Guardian The contrast between the frantic hunt for a missing submersible and the failure to save migrants drowning in the Mediterranean is illuminating A massive operation is under way to find and save a stricken vessel and its passengers. As time passes, anxious…
by Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. Davies (*) – CODEPINK As Ukraine prepared to launch its much heralded but long delayed counteroffensive, the media published a photograph of a Ukrainian soldier with his finger on his lips, symbolizing the need for secrecy to retain some element…
By Norman Solomon* – CounterPunch On the first day of March 2022, visitors to the New York Times homepage saw a headline across the top of their screens in huge capital letters: ROCKET BARRAGE KILLS CIVILIANS It was the kind of breaking-news banner headline that could have…
Imadesc, Madrid Given the accusations of malpractice and abuse in an institution of great international prestige as the Center for Social Studies (CES) of Coimbra, which have circulated through social networks and transpired to the written press, following the publication of the…
By Jorge Heine* – Asia Times In the face of war in Ukraine and China-US tensions, ‘active non-alignment’ is gaining traction What does the Ukraine war have to do with Brazil? On the face of it, perhaps not much.
By Chris Hedges* – ScheerPost Julian Assange’s legal options have nearly run out. He could be extradited to the U.S. this week.
By Eliran Arazi* – The Conversation The discovery and rescue of four young Indigenous children, 40 days after the aircraft they were travelling in crashed in the remote Colombian rainforest, was hailed in the international press as a “miracle in the jungle”. But as an…
By Benjamin Abelow* – CounterPunch website Note: The following is a revised and expanded version of an interview with Benjamin Abelow, author of How the West Brought War to Ukraine: Understanding How U.S. and NATO Policies Led to Crisis, War, and the Risk of Nuclear Catastrophe…
