Ever since the atomic bombings of Japanese cities in August 1945, the world has been living on borrowed time. To facilitate these nuclear war preparations, the major nuclear powers have withdrawn from key nuclear arms control and disarmament treaties
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Trump’s Congo-Rwanda deal is hailed as diplomatic triumph. But behind the photo ops lies a familiar exchange: African resources for Western power.
Ukanian-American poet Ilya Kaminsky examines the way complicity with an authoritarian regime can corrupt a whole society.
Are you willing to be killed for your own government’s sins? Are you willing to have your house destroyed, your child hit by shrapnel, because of the policies of the latest president? If that seems unfair, it is unfair to anyone, anywhere.
Interview with James M. Acton, the chair and co-director of the Nuclear Policy Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
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As the spiritual leader of the world’s 1.4 billion Catholics, Pope Francis unified people of different generations. He encouraged genuine love for humans—”Todo, todo, todo.” He spoke out against war, militarism, and the ravages of climate change.
Breach of Kakhovka Dam now threatens seasonal floods thick with toxic heavy metals, other pollutants
In 1960, Patrice Lumumba became the prime minister of newly independent Congo. His close ally Andrée Blouin describes how Belgium and the US conspired to oust Lumumba and impose Mobutu’s kleptocratic dictatorship on the Congolese people.
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