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Frankfurt City Council Undermines Human Rights by Canceling a Concert by Roger Waters

After a highly acclaimed run in North America, Roger Waters will take his “This Is Not a Drill” tour across Europe. The long journey includes shows in Germany, with the final concert in the country originally planned to take place in Frankfurt…

Save Sinjajevina’s Nature and Local Communities!

EU Commissioner for Neighbourhood and Enlargement; the Prime Minister of Montenegro; and the Ministry of the Defense of Montenegro We will deliver this again if you keep signing it! Here’s a report on our delivery of it in July 2022. Urgent:…

The women who stood with Martin Luther King Jr. and sustained a movement for social change

Historian Vicki Crawford was one of the first scholars to focus on women’s roles in the civil rights movement. Her 1993 book, “Trailblazers and Torchbearers,” dives into the stories of female leaders whose legacies have often been overshadowed. By Vicki Crawford Today…

Inside the Doomsday Machine: The 2023 Deterrence Summit – Part 3

Part I: Articles of Faith Part II: Follow the Money Part III: The Nuclear Ban Treaty What does the nuclear weapons industry talk about when they’re together? I spent three days with 530 government officials, politicians, and corporate contractors in…

The Havana Syndrome Case Cracked

Even before the attack on the homeland of the weather balloons, the Havana Syndrome tested America’s mettle. The Havana Syndrome was first reported in Cuba in 2016. The mysterious malady initially afflicted US embassy staff in Havana, especially those attached…

Inside the Doomsday Machine: The 2023 Deterrence Summit – Part 2

What does the nuclear weapons industry talk about when they’re together? I spent three days with 530 government officials, politicians, and corporate contractors in a hotel basement to find out. Part I of this piece, “Articles of Faith,” described some…

New study: Corporate profits drive up inflation in Australia—not higher wages. Is the wage-price spiral a fairytale?

A recent Australia Institute report has shown that profiteering is the source of the country’s high inflation. This is in contrast to the Reserve Bank of Australia’s fearmongering claims that higher wages are the main threat to economic growth and…

Inside the Doomsday Machine: The 2023 Deterrence Summit – Part 1

What does the nuclear weapons industry talk about when they’re together? I spent three days with 530 government officials, politicians, and corporate contractors in a hotel basement to find out. The nutshell: They talk about “deterrence” as if there is…

Why Biden Snubbed China’s Ukraine Peace Plan

There’s something irrational about President Biden’s knee-jerk dismissal of China’s 12-point peace proposal titled “China’s Position on the Political Settlement of the Ukraine Crisis.” By Medea Benjamin, Marcy Winograd, Wei Yu “Not rational” is how Biden described the plan that…

Myanmar-Bangladesh railway connection provides benefits for the region.

To facilitate the travel of tourists from home and abroad to Cox’s Bazar, a rail communication network is supposed to develop along with air and road. The railway line from Dhaka to Chittagong is 320 kilometers long and 102 kilometers…

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