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Britain’s military: costs of failure, symbols of vanity
By PAUL ROGERS 26 January 2018 for openDemocracy The real security threats to the United Kingdom come not from Russia but from climate change, inequality and marginalisation. A much publicised speech on 22 January by General Sir Nick Carter, chief of…
We’re climate researchers and our work was turned into fake news
Michael Grubb, UCL for The Conversation Science is slow. It rests on painstaking research with accumulating evidence. This makes for an inherently uneasy relationship with the modern media age, especially once issues are politicised. The interaction between politics and media…
It is now 2 minutes to midnight!
We republish the press statement, released on the 25th of January, 2018 from the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists. Citing growing nuclear risks and unchecked climate dangers, the iconic Doomsday Clock is now 30 seconds closer to midnight, the closest to…
WMD out of the Middle East: Achieving the Possible
A preparatory conference was held this week at the Edinburgh City Chambers in which diplomats, experts, academics and civil society representatives with understanding of the Middle East region considered the elements that would be required in order to start work…
‘I won’t fly refugees to their deaths’: The El Al pilots resisting deportation
At least three pilots for Israel’s flag carrier publish declarations publicly refusing to take part in the forced deportation of asylum seekers should they be asked to. The Israeli government is giving tens of thousands of Eritrean and Sudanese asylum…
A ‘Minister for Loneliness’ is a sticking plaster for the ills of neoliberalism
By PETER COVILLE 22 January 2018 for openDemocracy Is loneliness the price we pay for an ideology that privileges individual freedom and ‘choice’ above the collective and communal; that sees attachment to others as an obstacle to the pursuit of profit?…
Why Fear and Self-hatred Destroy Human Sharing and Solidarity
As our world spirals deeper into an abyss from which it is becoming increasingly difficult to extricate ourselves, some very prominent activists have lamented the lack of human solidarity in the face of the ongoing genocide of the Rohingya. See…
Worker Cooperatives Offer Real Alternatives to Trump’s Retrograde Economic Vision
By Sarah Aziza Announcing his presidency in 2016, Donald Trump promised the nation that he’d become “the greatest job president God ever created.” His plan to accomplish this rested on a retrograde economic vision that would “make America great again,”…
Eight Men Own Half The World’s Wealth, India Worst Hit
Eight men own the same wealth as the 3.6 billion people who make up the poorest half of humanity, according to a new report published by Oxfam to mark the annual meeting of political and business leaders in Davos. Oxfam’s…
The Democrats Caved. Now we Have to Act.
Popular support for immigrant justice measures like DACA is overwhelming, but the Democrats once again capitulated to Republican hostage-taking. By Danny Katch NOW WE know how long Democratic Party leaders are willing to fight against an unpopular racist president, in…
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