Mitsuhei Murata – Former Ambassador of Japan to the Swiss Confederation Today’s materialism is based on greed, which is now threatening the future of mankind and the globe. Mahatma Gandhi said, “The earth can provide for every one’s need, but not for every one’s greed.” This may…
By Karlos Zurutuza BARCELONA, Dec 2022 (IPS) – It was a hellish journey aboard a crammed boat amid three-meter waves. It had started on a Libyan beach, and at the gates of winter.
By Kevin Martin*- CounterPunch website Let’s end US complicity in the awful war in Yemen Last Thursday marked 42 years since John Lennon was killed. Many people, including me, lament his death and can recall where we were when we heard the heartbreaking news. This holiday…
By Nicholas Vinocur and Nicolas Camut – POLITICO Brussels wrestles with corruption scandal Some EU officials are adamant the Qatar corruption probe concerns ‘a few individuals.’ Others say the rot goes much deeper. As Belgian police launched a second wave of raids on the…
By Jacob Hornberger – CounterPunch website When the Pentagon used NATO to provoke Russia into invading Ukraine, it had to know that one of the great benefits to such an invasion would be that it would enrich U.S. weapons manufacturers, who, of course, are an important, integral…
By Lili Bayer – POLITICO Zoltán Varga, one of Hungary’s last independent media moguls, tells POLITICO Viktor Orbán has taken his tactics to a ‘new level.’ Viktor Orbán’s allies tried to buy his papers, he said. They pulled advertising, he added. His phone was on a Pegasus…
By Eric Lichtblau – The Guardian Biden faces a renewed push, domestically and internationally, to drop charges against Julian Assange, who is languishing in a UK jail Many of Julian Assange’s supporters believe his case has reached a turning point that could lead to his freedom…
Polychroniou* – TRUTHOUT The ground is well prepared for neofascism to fill the void left by class war wrought by neoliberalism, says Chomsky Neoliberalism has reigned supreme as an economic philosophy for nearly half a century. But neoliberal policies have wreaked havoc…
by Andrew Scruggs – Inkstick Street-level violence obscures the Caribbean country’s (true) complex political tangle. There is currently a heated debate raging in the United States and Haiti centering on the possibility of a US-backed military intervention into the country.
By Joshua Keating and Khaya Himmelman (*) – Grid Experts say unlike groups like al-Qaeda and ISIS, when it comes to QAnon, there’s no centralized structure or leadership that can be targeted. German special forces arrested 25 suspected members and supporters of a domestic…
