CADTM International Many countries and their populations currently face a critical situation because of the rising prices of food or the impossibility of getting access to food in sufficient quantity. As the main cause is not the war in Ukraine, as repeated by several media, the global food crisis we are facing is actually a… Read More Press Release: 2022: Let us end the food crisis
Yorgos Mitralias At least during the interwar period, when there was a confrontation between the left and the fascists, it was always the fascists who won. And unfortunately, most of the time without meeting a real resistance. However, there has been one important exception. That of the Italian revolutionary Guido Picelli, who, the first and… Read More 100 years ago, in early August 1922, the barricades of Parma repelled Mussolini’s hordes…
First posted on October 27, 2012 The decision not to start world war three was not taken in the Kremlin or the White House, but in the sweltering control room of a submarine. The launch of the B-59’s nuclear torpedo required the consent of all three senior officers aboard. Arkhipov was alone in refusing permission.. … Read More Vasili Arkhipov (1926-1998), the man who prevented nuclear war
Alexander Larman When Hitler rose to power in the early 1930s, public reaction in Britain was not that of unalloyed horror. Instead, it lay somewhere between disinterest, snobbish, if inaccurate, contempt (“the man’s a house painter!”), and, in some circles, quiet satisfaction that a vigorous reformer had shaken up his country in an apparently effective and… Read More Book review: Coffee With Hitler by Charles Spicer – polite society v the Nazis
Hundreds of thousands of homes are under water in Sindh province. Locals have no food and say the state has abandoned them by Shah Meer Baloch in Dadu After several attempts, Zameer Ali, his son and his brother were finally heaved on to the deck of a wooden boat. Early that morning, the exhausted 48-year-old had waded… Read More ‘There is nothing for us’: Pakistan’s flood homeless start to despair
By Kojo Koram Mr. Koram is the author of “Uncommon Wealth: Britain and the Aftermath of Empire.” LONDON — “Do we confront this moment with honesty,” asked Rishi Sunak, one of the two candidates running to replace Boris Johnson as prime minister of Britain, “or do we tell ourselves comforting fairy tales?” The answer, from the Conservative… Read More Britain’s New Prime Minister Is Still in Thrall to the Empire
Greta Thunberg and others Next week the future of many of the world’s forests will be decided when members of the European parliament vote on a revised EU renewable energy directive. If the parliament fails to change the EU’s discredited and harmful renewables policy, European citizens’ tax money will continue to pay for forests around the globe to… Read More Burning forests for energy isn’t ‘renewable’ – now the EU must admit it
Morgan Godfery In 1948, when my Koro (grandfather) was born, the town of Kawerau was little more than a strip of old homesteads on the road between Rotorua and Whakatane. It had a Presbyterian church and a marae, but the nearest school and store were in the next town over – a 10-minute drive through… Read More Brutal lockout in New Zealand mill town a stark portrait of capitalism’s failed hopes and broken promises
Eva Corlett It is regarded as the “loneliest tree in the world” but the Sitka spruce on uninhabited Campbell Island has been keeping good company of late – with a team of New Zealand researchers who believe it could help unlock climate change secrets. The nine-metre tall spruce holds the Guinness World Record title for the “remotest… Read More Scientists hope ‘world’s loneliest tree’ will help answer climate questions
After the truth-shower 