At the end of last year, at the height of the Omicron variant spread, an important battle was being fought for clean water and a healthy environment, the value of which has only become clearer during the last couple of years. At one of the many frontiers of mineral extraction in the Patagonian province of […]
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Robert Pallitto: Supreme Court Expands Government Secrecy Powers in Torture-Related Case
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled recently on the government’s use of the state secrets doctrine in an opinion that will make it easier for intelligence agencies to evade accountability in future individual rights cases. In U.S. v. Zubaydah, government torture policy and state secrets converge. A torture victim requested information related to his treatment at a […]
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Walden Bello: America Has Entered the Weimar Era
January 7, 2020 – By mid-February 2021, American deaths from COVID-19 may well surpass the country’s 405,400 deaths during the Second World War. By around mid-May, more Americans will have died from the virus than during the Civil War, which killed 655,000, and the Spanish flu pandemic of 1918, when 675,000 are estimated to have […]
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John Feffer: Why Spend $54 Billion More on the Pentagon? To Start a War, Obviously.
March 27, 2017 – So, let me see if I’ve got this right. North Korea has been pushing its ally China to rein in the United States. Pyongyang is worried that Washington is about to launch a preemptive attack, so it has tried to use whatever minimal amount of influence it has to persuade China […]