by Giovanni Mennillo
The condemnation of the Russian invasion of Ukraine must remain firm and unquestionable. The aggressor and the victim of invasion are blatantly obvious. However, this latest act cannot absolve us from attempting to understand the complex historical...
By UN NEWS
Shocking abuses against indigenous Papuans have been taking place in Indonesia, UN-appointed rights experts said on March 1st, citing child killings, disappearances, torture and enforced mass displacement. “Between April and November 2021, we have received allegations indicating...
By Ambra Visentin
While Russian and foreign newspapers and websites (such as the BBC and others) dealing with the Ukrainian war continue to be banned in Moscow, after Putin's decree on martial law prohibiting "the spread of misinformation on the...
By Maurizio Sacchi
In these months, following a trend lasting decades, we have witnessed how private armies have become an important actor in conflicts and wars all over the planet. These companies of fortune, with the huge amounts of capital...
by Raffaele Crocco
Emmanuel Macron, the French president who has constantly been attempting to mediate, says that Putin's objective is still to "take control of the whole of Ukraine". Something that seems less and less possible: the first ten days...
By Alice Pistolesi
One million people have crossed the Ukrainian border in one week. An enormous, overwhelming and extremely rapid exodus, as emphasised by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), Filippo Grandi, who said yesterday: "I have worked...
By Elia Gerola
For a detailed, visual explanation of the world's nuclear deterrence balances, check out our up-to-date infographic, which will soon be in the book Atlas of Wars and Conflicts in the World (first English edition).
European and global nuclear...
This infographic is the most up-to-date, as it appears in the first English edition of the Atlas of Wars and Conflicts in the World, out later this Spring. A graphic data visualization helps us answer timely questions, such as:
Which...
By Alfred W. McCoy* – from TomDispatch
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Consider us at the edge of the sort of epochal change not seen for centuries, even millennia. By the...
Crucial hours for the fate of Ukraine. Talks between Ukraine and Russia are expected to begin on Monday morning near the border with Belarus, reports the news agency TASS, while Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy told British Prime Minister Boris...
