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Global inequality is on the rise – but at vastly different rates across the world
Antonio Savoia, University of Manchester Inequality is rising almost everywhere across the world – that’s the clear finding of the first ever World Inequality Report. In particular, it has grown fastest in Russia, India and China – places where this…
Bitcoin Frenzy: The Fever Chart Of A Deepening Crisis
By Nick Beams According to the official scenario, the world economy is enjoying its best period of growth since the global financial crisis of 2008-2009, which ushered in the worst recession since the Great Depression of the 1930s. According to…
To save Internet they helped create, Web pioneers demand FCC cancel Net Neutrality vote
More than 20 internet founders and industry leaders wrote an open letter warning Ajit Pai’s plan to kill net neutrality poses “imminent threat” to the web by Jake Johnson, staff writer for Common Dreams Joining the revolt taking place in…
Thousands of Militants Mark International Human Rights Day with Rallies and Protests
“Human rights do not have the universal application that would be desirable because they do not flow from the universal power of the human being, but only from the power that one part now exercises over the whole. If even…
John Scales Avery, The Climate Emergency: Two time scales
Pressenza has recently been contacted by John Scales Avery from the Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs to ask for publication of the below text which we gladly do. I am working on a book with the title “THE…
Global arms industry: First rise in arms sales since 2010
We reproduce here the latest press release from the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI). Sales of arms and military services by the world’s largest arms-producing and military services companies—the SIPRI Top 100—totalled $374.8 billion in 2016, according to new…
#MeToo, say Sleeping Beauty and Snow White
The deluge of reports of sexual harassment taking place in just about every aspect of society, following the Harvey Weinstein revelations is an opportunity to produce profound changes. This will not happen unless the deep roots of abusive behaviour are…
Jeremy Corbyn and Noam Chomsky win peace prize amid media silence
UK Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has been awarded the Sean MacBride Peace Prize along with Noam Chomsky and Japanese anti-military base activists, yet the award received scant coverage in the British media. The International Peace Bureau presents the Sean MacBride…
Nobel lecture: Nuclear weapons signify not a country’s elevation to greatness, but its descent to the darkest depths of depravity
Today, Sunday, 10th of December, 2017, ICAN received the Nobel Peace Prize for their work in securing a treaty on the prohibition of nuclear weapons. Setsuko Thurlow, survivor of the Hiroshima bomb on the 6th of August 1945 gave half…
Nobel Lecture: We must reclaim the freedom to not live our lives as hostages to imminent annihilation
Today, Sunday, 10th of December, 2017, ICAN received the Nobel Peace Prize for their work in securing a treaty on the prohibition of nuclear weapons. Beatrice Fihn, executive director of the network gave half of the Nobel Lecture. Your Majesties,…
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