The president’s erratic behavior and his encouragement of the attack on the Capitol building and democracy last week scared Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi enough to make her worry publically about the fact that he has the legal sole authority to order the launch of nuclear weapons.
Objective evidence has been obtained of the murder and torture of Armenian prisoners of war and civilians held by the Azerbaijani armed forces, as well as cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment with them, the press service of the Armenian Prosecutor General’s Office reported.
Alice Slater, an attorney from NYC talks about her decades of work with the UN, the Lawyers Alliance Against Nuclear Weapons, and her numerous visits to Russia and China.
23-year-old Jasim Mohamed AlEskafi was working at Mondelez International’s Kraft Factory, in addition to freelance farming and sales work, when he was arbitrarily arrested by the Bahraini authorities on 23 January 2018. During his detention, he was subjected to several human rights violations.
On November 24, 2020, at 7 pm EST, a coalition of peace groups across Canada will hold a Zoom panel discussion to free Meng Wanzhou. The panel discussion, in turn, is to build for a Cross-Canada Day of Action to Free Meng Wanzhou on December 1, 2020.
Flash! Nuclear bombs and warheads have just joined landmines, germ and chemical bombs and fragmentation bombs as illegal weapons under international law, as on Oct. 24 a 50th nation, the Central American country of Honduras, ratified and signed a UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons.
On October 24, 2020, the UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons reached the required 50 states parties for its entry into force, after Honduras ratified just one day after Jamaica and Nauru submitted their ratifications. In 90 days, the treaty will enter into force, cementing a categorical ban on nuclear weapons, 75 years after their first use.
The 18th episode of the World BEYOND War podcast is a celebration of the life’s work of much-beloved activist Kevin Zeese, who died unexpectedly on September 6, 2020
he weather is getting more extreme by the year and conversations about climate change are growing along with it. So when Michael Moore made the movie ‘Planet of the Humans’, criticizing the corporate co-optation of the green movement, he came under attack from well-connected activists.
