From the Coordinadora Feminista Punta Arenas, Elisa Giustinianovich, stated that there is a broad majority that has expressed its opposition to the so-called Agreement for Chile agreed by the traditional parties represented in Congress, which has led to a position of...
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Diplomatic Cables Prove Top U.S. Officials Knew They Were Crossing Russia’s Red Lines on NATO Expansion
Nearly a year in, the war in Ukraine has cost hundreds of thousands of lives and brought the world to the brink of, in President Joe Biden’s own words, “Armageddon.” Alongside the literal battlefield, there has been a similarly bitter intellectual battle over the...
Abortion is a right, not a failure, not a tragedy
Let us not respond to the neocon attack on abortion with moral or moralising arguments. It is a right, and there is no need to justify it. Just expand it and defend it. By Vanesa Jiménez/ctxt Abortion is a woman’s right. Control over our bodies – and our fertility and...
The U.S. Foreign Policy Establishment Proves in Ukraine That It Forgot the Lessons of Vietnam
Friday, January 27th, marks 50 years since the signing of the Paris Peace Accords by representatives from the United States, North and South Vietnam effectively ending American participation in the Vietnamese civil conflict. What the Georgetown University...
Davos, the great enemy of freedom
Annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos Published with permission of the author. Fernando del Pino Calvo-Sotelo The annual meeting of the World Economic Forum (WEF) is looking more and more like the red carpet at Cannes, but behind the appearance of a...
Gosar Addresses Biden’s Reckless Decision to Escalate War and Send Tanks to Ukraine
U.S. Representative Paul Gosar, D.D.S. (AZ-09) issued the following statement in response to the Biden administration’s decision to escalate our involvement in a war with Russia and send 31 M1 Abrams tanks to Ukraine. “Joe Biden’s decision to send American tanks to...
Cities are not targets
Author’s presentation on the occasion of the IPPNW European Forum meeting, Hamburg, Germany, 21 January 2023 I am honoured to speak on such a special occasion, in front of such a special audience, and overwhelmed to do so in such a special place. Here, the name of my...
An Ancient Recipe for Social Success
New evidence and understandings about the structure of successful early societies across Asia, Africa, and the Western Hemisphere are sweeping away the popular assumption that early societies tended toward autocracy and despotism. By Linda M. Nicholas and Gary M....
How Dare I Oppose War Together With Libertarians?
I’m getting a lot more criticism for planning to speak at an antiwar rally at which libertarians will speak than I do for sitting around doing nothing. In fact, I get exactly no criticism ever from anyone for sitting around doing nothing, even though that’s far more...
International Zero Waste Cities Conference 2023: Zero Waste to Zero Emission
One of the leading causes of climate change is unmanaged waste and at the recently held COP27 last November 2022, the continuing struggle to reach the Global Methane Pledge, which recognizes that reducing methane, a greenhouse gas over 80 times as potent as CO2, is...
What Can the United States Bring to the Peace Table for Ukraine?
The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists has just issued its 2023 Doomsday Clock statement, calling this “a time of unprecedented danger.” It has advanced the hands of the clock to 90 seconds to midnight, meaning that the world is closer to global catastrophe than ever...
Human rights violations denounced in eSwatini
On January 23rd the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk, condemned the brutal murder of Thulani Maseko, a prominent human rights lawyer from Eswatini, gunned down at his home two days earlier. “Thulani Maseko was a staunch human rights...