Trump incited his supporters to violently storm the Capitol Building in Washington DC in an attempt to revive his failed efforts to overturn the results of the election. Five people are dead as a direct result of the attack, including one police officer (ironically a...
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Trump’s Broken Promises to U.S. Factory Workers
Back in 2016, while campaigning for president, Donald Trump discovered a useful tactic for drawing the votes of disgruntled blue-collar workers: denouncing the loss of U.S. manufacturing jobs and promising to restore them. At a rally in hard-hit Ohio, he assailed the...
Review of Hensman’s ‘Indefensible’
Defense of the Easily Defensible By Dave Markland In 2018 Haymarket Books published Rohini Hensman’s Indefensible: Democracy, Counter-revolution and Anti-imperialist Rhetoric. Its focus is on left journalists and analysts like John Pilger and the late Edward S. Herman...
The Great Evasion
Two related events—the 75th anniversary of the January 24, 1946 UN General Assembly Resolution 1 (which established a commission to plan for the abolition of nuclear weapons) and the January 22, 2021 entry into force of the UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear...
Latest UN report on Venezuela is not remotely honest (Part 2)
On September 15, UN investigators ( the so called “Mission”) published a 411 page report about the human rights situation in Venezuela.[1] Part 1 of my analysis of the report focused on its gross dishonesty about opposition leader Leopoldo Lopez. The Mission...
Most Germans Want US Military to Leave the Country
Unlike their elected riulers, most Germans don’t want to be part of the nuclear ‘theater’ Trump, once again doing the right thing for the wrong reasons, wants to pull US troops out of Germany because Germany doesn’t spend enough on “defence”. The German population...
UN agencies not above playing politics with statistics
It’s clear that technical departments within the UN sometimes have their work corrupted by the US government and its allies. Consider recent reporting by the Grayzone on OPCW whistleblowers who exposed manipulation of an investigation into alleged chemical weapons use...
Difference, Free Speech and Universal Values
The proposed hate crime clauses of the Scottish Crime Bill are being redrawn because of claims they will criminalize ‘legitimate acts of expression’. Climbdown on the Scottish Hate Crime Bill: a small setback for those who believe that attacking freedom of speech is...
MEMORIA. Primo Levi. L’elogio del lavoro e della vita
I lettori di Primo Levi conoscono il valore che il raccontare ha avuto per lui, testimone senza il quale il mondo non avrebbe saputo «di che cosa l’uomo è stato capace, di che cosa è tuttora capace». Ma la lezione di Levi è, anche, quella del superamento dell’orrore,...
Francesco De Filippo e Maria Frega, Filosofia per i prossimi umani (Giunti, 2020)
Il libro segue a un precedente, scritto nel 2018 per indagare sulla nostra vita intorno al 2040 con domande ai più prestigiosi esperti italiani di domotica, robotica, astrofisica, fisica nucleare, … L'articolo Francesco De Filippo e Maria Frega, Filosofia per i...
Recovery Fund e debito pubblico: qualche osservazione controcorrente
L’enfasi sul Recovery Fund («i soldi che arriveranno dall’Europa») è francamente incomprensibile e, in ogni caso, ne dimentica le ricadute sul nostro debito pubblico. Di cui sarebbe opportuno preoccuparsi un po’ di più. Sapendo che è sterminato ma che può essere...
Tav. Il Procuratore generale e le Forze dell’ordine
La Corte d’appello di Torino ridimensiona le responsabilità dei No TAV negli scontri dell'estate 2011 alla Maddalena. Il Procuratore generale insiste e afferma che le Forze dell'ordine furono sempre «assolutamente prudenti, forse persino troppo». Ma le immagini dicono...