Life on Earth is under siege. A chain of tipping points with catastrophic consequences for everyone are being unleashed. Yet governments worldwide remain indifferent to the danger. Indeed, many continue avidly to stoke the very furnaces that will consume our civilisation. The first two statements above are from two new scientific reports, issued this week Continue reading »
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The senator’s proposal would require Biden to withdraw forces from the West African nation within 30 days.
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Women are not natural pacifists, but feminism is a movement against violence and domination.
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The firing by the German media giant follows a smear campaign against Arab and Palestinian journalists in Germany in recent years.
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Echoing George W. Bush on 9/11, a Misgav Institute report shows how political leaders find a chilling silver lining in the suffering of their own.
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Sultan Al Jaber, CEO of the UAE’s national oil company, secured the COP28 presidency despite questions over his green credentials.
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Billions in security aid to Lebanon, along with off-the-books commandos, could embroil the U.S. in a regional conflagration.
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Prime Minister: You may wish to draw on the following in your meetings with President Biden, Vice-President Harris, Secretary of State Blinken, and Secretary of Defence Austin. Remind the President of your name, and how to pronounce it, and remind him again before the State Dinner. Find out if the US remains committed to AUKUS, Continue reading »
Our human world is becoming an increasingly dangerous place. Quite apart from what is happening between Gaza and Israel, and in the war between Russia and Ukraine, we are currently living with a series of human-made catastrophic threats that are coming together to threaten the very existence of our own human species. All of these Continue reading »
No attempt to “explain”, rationalise, find some counter-“equivalence” for, nor any attempt to see matters through the eyes and the experiences of the murderers rather than the immediate victims can justify or forgive the barbaric massacre of Israeli children, women and men by Hamas warriors after they broke out of Gaza. It does not forgive Continue reading »