ALAI this week - 28/1/2022
All of us remain hostages to the military-industrial complex
As long as tensions are maintained; as long as there is a threat of war, the military-industrial complex gets the money for which it lusts, and the politicians and journalists get their blood money.
John Scales Avery
Xiomara Castro to be sworn in amid political turmoil in Honduras
Tensions have been growing ahead of Castro’s swearing in following signs of attempts by conservative sections to undermine her proposals for transformation.
Zoe Alexandra
Climate inaction, injustice worsened by finance fiasco
Many factors frustrate the international cooperation needed to address the looming global warming catastrophe. As most rich nations have largely abdicated responsibility, developing countries need to think and act innovatively and cooperatively to better advance the South.
Jomo Kwame Sundaram
New enemy wanted
After the new political and military fiasco in Afghanistan, and after such a fortune invested by Washington in the war companies, in the merchants of death, it is urgent to find a new enemy and a new conflict.
Jorge Majfud
Outrage in Peru following devastating Repsol oil spill
The spill has polluted 1.7 million square meters of soil and 1.2 million square meters of ocean, tarred 21 beaches on Peru’s Pacific coast, and killed a vast variety of marine wildlife.
Tanya Wadhwa
Davos 2022 and the Fourth Industrial Revolution
We live in times where antagonisms are most pronounced, and inequalities are stark. What is needed, then, is a genuine engagement from an equal footing and a negotiation of ideas that can institute an equitable and just global order based on a transformed, people-led, multilateralism.
Amay Korjan, Avantika Tewari
UN, Europe and the war in the Ukraine
It is imperative that the UN make itself heard and felt, if the drift toward a third world war is to be stopped.
Boaventura de Sousa Santos
British Court rules Assange can appeal US extradition
Assange has been imprisoned at a high-security London jail since 2019, under conditions that experts and rights groups have denounced as torturous and a violation of international law.
Jake Johnson
The U.S. makes a mockery of treaties and international law
The United States claims it is operating under a “rules-based order”—but the term is not the same international law recognized by the rest of the world. Rather, it is camouflage behind which American exceptionalism flourishes.
K.J. Noh