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It’s Time to Call Economic Sanctions What They Are: War Crimes
It’s Time to Call Economic Sanctions What They Are: War Crimes Photo by John Pavelka | CC BY 2.0 The first pathetic pieces of wreckage from North Korean fishing boats known as “ghost ships” to be found this year are washing up on the coast of northern Japan. These are the storm-battered remains of fragile […]
Could/Should Jubilee Debt Cancellations be Reintroduced Today?
Could/Should Jubilee Debt Cancellations be Reintroduced Today? Introduction The idea of annulling debts nowadays seems so unthinkable that most economists and many theologians doubt whether the Jubilee Year could have been applied in practice, and indeed on a regular basis. A widespread impression is that the Mosaic debt jubilee was a utopian ideal. However, Assyriologists […]
Prevention is the Only Solution: a Hiroshima Native’s View of Nuclear Weapons
Prevention is the Only Solution: a Hiroshima Native’s View of Nuclear Weapons Photo by Gerry Lauzon | CC BY 2.0 At 8:07 on Saturday morning, Hawaii residents woke up to an emergency alert on their cellphones: BALLISTIC MISSILE THREAT INBOUND TO HAWAII. SEEK IMMEDIATE SHELTER. THIS IS NOT A DRILL. Until a second message called […]
Global Warming Stirs the Methane Monster
Global Warming Stirs the Methane Monster Photo by Jeremy Buckingham | CC BY 2.0 It’s January, yet methane hydrates in the Arctic are growling like an incensed monster on a scorching hot mid-summer day. But, it is January; it’s winter, not July! On January 1st Arctic methane at 2,764 ppb spiked upwards into the atmosphere, […]
Wormwood and a Shocking Secret of War: How Errol Morris Vindicated My Father, Wilfred Burchett
Wormwood and a Shocking Secret of War: How Errol Morris Vindicated My Father, Wilfred Burchett Still from “Wormwood.” We see a wall with murky brown floral wallpaper and a door with a peephole and the number 1018A. A man is talking on the phone. He says: “See you tomorrow. I love you, Alice.” The camera […]
Fabricating a War on Iran
Fabricating a War on Iran Photo by futureatlas.com | CC BY 2.0 Secretary of State Colin Powell brandished a vial he claimed contained anthrax at the UN Security Council on 5 February 2003, and showed satellite photos of secret sites where chemical weapons were supposed to be manufactured. He later admitted the story was fabricated, […]
North Korea: The Deafening Silence around the Moon-Putin Plan
North Korea: The Deafening Silence around the Moon-Putin Plan Photo by thierry ehrmann | CC BY 2.0 “In the heart of appeasement there’s the fear of rejection, and in acts of fear there are mirrors of oppression.” —Chris Jami As the world hurtles ever closer to war in Asia, there is an Alice-in-Wonderland media narrative […]
GMOs, Global Agribusiness and the Destruction of Choice
GMOs, Global Agribusiness and the Destruction of Choice One of the myths perpetuated by the pro-GMO (genetically modified organisms) lobby is that critics of GMOs in agriculture are denying choice to farmers and have an ideological agenda. The narrative is that farmers should have access to a range of tools and technologies, including GM crops. […]
Rational Insanity: the Mad Logic of America’s Nuclear ‘Doomsday Machine’
Rational Insanity: the Mad Logic of America’s Nuclear ‘Doomsday Machine’ Photo by The Official CTBTO Photo | CC BY 2.0 I want to say – and this is very important – in the end, we lucked out! It was luck that prevented nuclear war. Khrushchev was rational. Kennedy was rational. Castro was rational. [Holding up his thumb and […]
Corporate Coercion and the Drive to Eliminate Buying with Cash
Corporate Coercion and the Drive to Eliminate Buying with Cash “Sorry we’re not taking cash or checks,” said the clerk at the Fed Ex counter over a decade ago to an intern. “Only credit cards.” Since then, the relentless intensification of coercive commercialism has been moving toward a cashless economy, when all consumers are incarcerated […]
Ghosts in the Propaganda Machine
Ghosts in the Propaganda Machine S. Mangal’s social media profile and author photo. “When I use a word,” Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, “it means just what I choose it to mean—neither more nor less.” “The question is,” said Alice, “whether you can make words mean so many different things.” “The question […]
The WannaCry Cyberattack: What the Evidence Says and Why the Trump Administration Blames North Korea
The WannaCry Cyberattack: What the Evidence Says and Why the Trump Administration Blames North Korea Photo by Blogtrepreneur | CC BY 2.0 On December 19, in a Wall Street Journal editorial that drew much attention, Homeland Security Advisor Tom Bossert asserted that North Korea was “directly responsible” for the WannaCry cyberattack that struck more […]
