by Ann Wright | Jun 29, 2022 | Uncategorized, War & Peace
While the world’s attention is focused on the Russia-Ukraine conflict, halfway around the world in the Pacific Ocean, U.S. and NATO confrontation with China and North Korea is increasing dramatically. Ever since the Obama administration’s “Pivot to Asia,” which was...
by Kenneth Roth | Jun 28, 2022 | Democracy & Governance, Environment, Human Rights
President Joe Biden is bringing the Saudi crown prince in from the cold. Mohammed bin Salman’s human rights record remains abysmal, but Biden seems to have decided that — to lower fuel prices and strengthen the alliance against Russia’s invasion of Ukraine — he must...
by Giorgio Cafiero | Jun 22, 2022 | Democracy & Governance, War & Peace
“We just wanted to live in peace and freedom. But because we’re Muslim they tried to kill all of us.” Those were the words of a Bosniak woman who spoke to me this May at the Srebrenica Genocide Memorial in Potočari, a village in Eastern Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH)....
by Walden Bello | Jun 14, 2022 | Democracy & Governance, Labor, Trade, & Finance
The World Trade Organization holds its 12th Ministerial Meeting in Geneva from June 12 to 15. Yet little if anything is expected from the meeting except the usual exchanges of conflicting views between representatives of the global North and those of the global South....
by Donna Katzin, William Minter | Jun 7, 2022 | Energy, Environment, War & Peace
Media, politicians, and policymakers tend to focus on the most visible issues. The attention the war in Ukraine has received in the first half of 2022, for example, is unrivaled in the United States at least since the shock of 9/11 in 2001. The war has been highly...