Calls for assassination of UN head in Sudan by ousted President Bashir backers worries world leaders
The United Nations expressed concern on Tuesday about a request for a fatwa seeking the assassination of its head in Sudan, as loyalists of ousted leader Omar al-Bashir stepped up opposition to a draft deal for a new civilian government. In a video on social media, a man calling himself...
Canadian bank censured for investing in Israeli company whose weapons have caused countless civilian deaths
Scotiabank’s gigantic stake in Elbit Systems, estimated to be about $500 million, dwarfs that of its two larger domestic competitors, TD Bank and Royal Bank of Canada. The two other banks hold around $3 million in shares, combined, in the company.
War is how Americans learn geography: How new nuclear age, climate change are shaping geopolitics
By 2015, Russia and the US had both announced new spending to “modernise” their nuclear arsenals and, in climate terms, it was the hottest year on record. The Bulletin ominously moved the hands of the clock to three minutes to midnight for the first time since the Cold War year of 1984.
Doomsday Clock: How human error in 1995 led to resetting of nuclear clock, deadly nukes fear
By 1949, as the Cold War heated up and the Soviet Union got the bomb, the hands on that clock were moved to three minutes to midnight, code for distinctly too close! As the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists wrote after Russia exploded its first nuclear device, “We think that Americans have reason to be deeply alarmed and prepare for grave decisions.”
In times marked by mass extinction, global pandemics and climate change, the future isn’t what it used to be
Between 2019 and 2028, the United States is on track to spend at least $494 billion or about $50 billion a year on its nuclear forces, according to a Congressional Budget Office assessment
Trump is back with supercharged battery as his sleazy financial and political past rock America
Whatever attributes Donald Trump may have, a reputation for keeping calm is not something he carries with him. This week, hours after he made a new entry in the book of firsts for an American president when he was charged with 34 felony counts, he returned to the arms of...
Stranded African migrants draw world attention to rising xenophobia in Tunisia after president’s incendiary speech
Six weeks after an incendiary speech by Tunisian President Kais Saied triggered a surge in racist violence against sub-Saharan migrants, hundreds of its victims are still camped on a cobblestone lane outside the headquarters of the UN’s migration agency, IOM, asking for emergency evacuation. “Our lives are under threat,” said...
Human rights activist and scion of the Kennedy family Robert F. Kennedy plots to succeed Biden
Human rights activists and a member of a prominent family in American politics Robert F Kennedy Jr is on course to seeking Democratic Party nomination to succeed President Joe Biden in 1924 elections. Kennedy, founder of Children’s Health Defense (CHD), on Wednesday moved a step closer to seeking the Democratic...
Hush money: Voter rating of ex-US President Trump soar as son admits he signed cheque for porn star
Donald Trump has pleaded not guilty to 34 counts of falsifying business records in a Manhattan court – and looked “vulnerable”, a former ambassador has said. But a pollster says the case is “helping” him electorally, and it is now “almost inevitable” he will win the Republican nomination. Donald Trump...
UN report accuse Republican lawmakers of fuelling ‘tyranny’ of world growing hotter, emerging ‘climate divorce’
That so many states in the US have been passing legislation to curb climate change is anything but a fluke. Like other retrograde measures enacted in Republican-controlled states, those bills are based on “model legislation” drafted for legislators by an outfit called the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC). One of...
