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Four Things To Know Before You Read On I do not nor have I ever supported Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. I have made this clear in almost all of my previous writings about the conflict and feel no need to go into it any further in this one. I am of the strong opinion...

When in 1985 Mikhail Gorbachev took over as General Secretary of the CPSU (Communist Party of the Soviet Union), which was de facto equivalent to a presidency of the USSR, succeeding three gerontes (Brezhnev, Andropov and Chernenko), few imagined that this change...

The last president of the Soviet Union, Mikhail Gorbachev, who died today in Moscow at the age of 92 after a serious and prolonged illness, was very close to Silo and the humanists, according to Russian state media. He maintained an open and constant dialogue with...

The origins of the humanist organisation “World without Wars and Violence” (MSGySV) were in Moscow after the dissolution of the USSR. Rafael de la Rubia, its founder, lived there in 1993. One of the first supporters of the organisation was Mikhail Gorbachev, whose...

Julian Assange, has now spent over 1,200 days in a maximum-security prison. If we consider the date of June 19, 2012, when he first sought Ecuador’s protection from the very charges he now faces, he has now been deprived of his liberty for over 10 years. With this in...

Former Brazilian President Luíz Inácio Lula da Silva (known as Lula) runs about on stage at the Latin America Memorial in São Paulo. He was there on August 22, 2022, speaking at a book launch featuring photographs by Ricardo Stuckert about Lula’s trips around the...

• Russian troops have “repeatedly shelled” the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant, said its Ukraine operator Energoatom. “As a result of periodic shelling, the infrastructure of the station has been damaged, there are risks of hydrogen leakage and sputtering of radioactive...

China had warned of “serious consequences” in the lead-up to the visit but has avoided any significant military escalation so far. By John P. Ruehl Following the chaotic U.S. departure from Afghanistan in August 2021 and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022,...

Hypocrisy & Outright Lying by Nuclear-armed States By Jackie Cabasso (IDN) — The 10th NPT Review Conference didn’t fail because it couldn’t produce a final document. It failed because the nuclear-armed states haven’t made good on their fundamental nuclear...

In the last five years, the Indian film industry has observed a resurgence of the alpha-male hero. One would have imagined change to happen following the successful #MeToo movement that started in Hollywood and trickled down to India as well in 2018. On the one side,...

On August 15th, 2022, a press briefing was held under the title “Global Famine after Nuclear War”. The event tackled issues related to the environmental impacts of nuclear war anywhere in the world. It was based on a research paper titled “Global food insecurity and...