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The Privatization of War: A New Challenge for the Women, Peace, and Security Agenda
With the approach of the twentieth anniversary of United Nations Security Council resolution 1325 on women, peace, and security (WPS), emerging global peace and security challenges are increasingly being recognized as part of this agenda.…
Britain’s Secret Saudi Military Support Program
By mistake, the U.K. recently revealed the budget size of a multibillion-pound program that it manages to support the royal family’s de facto protection force, which is also active in the devastating war in Yemen, report Matt Kennard and…
Census: Inequality Grew, Including in Heartland States
The gap between the haves and have-nots in the United States grew last year to its highest level in more than 50 years of tracking income inequality, according to Census Bureau figures.
Income inequality in the United States expanded from…
“Extinction Rebellion”, “Green New Deal” and the “Rebranding of Global Capitalism”
Who is supporting this Worldwide endeavour, who is funding it?
Is this a real rebellion?
Why I Don’t Speak of the Fake News of “9/11” Anymore
Tuesday, September 11, 2001, was a non-teaching day for me. I was home when the phone rang at 9 A.M. It was my daughter, who was on a week’s vacation with her future husband. “Turn on the TV,” she said. “Why?” I asked. “Haven’t you…
HOW VOICE OF AMERICA PERSIAN BECAME A TRUMP ADMINISTRATION PR MACHINE
AS AN IRANIAN AMERICAN journalist covering the Iran-U.S. relationship, Negar Mortazavi is accustomed to receiving vitriol on social media. Still, she found it unusual when she saw on Twitter that someone had called her a “treasonous…
There is no such thing as western civilisation
The values of liberty, tolerance and rational inquiry are not the birthright of a single culture. In fact, the very notion of something called ‘western culture’ is a modern invention
U.S. Economic Warfare and Likely Foreign Defenses
Today’s world is at war on many fronts. The rules of international law and order put in place toward the end of World War II are being broken by U.S. foreign policy escalating its confrontation with countries that refrain from giving its…
Israel spyware firm can mine data from social media
An Israeli spyware firm thought to have hacked WhatsApp in the past denied a report Friday that it had boasted to clients that it can scoop user data from servers run by technology titans.
The Financial Times wrote that NSO Group had "told…
‘I Don’t Feel Like a Human Being’: The Gazans Who Lost Everything in an Israeli Bombing
According to the United Nations, 327 residents of the Gaza Strip lost their homes in the wake of bombing by the Israel Air Force during the latest round of fighting, in May. In new testimony, compiled by Olfat al-Kurd, a field researcher…