by Scott Ritter * - Special to Consortium News, OtherNews
The origins of Israel’s intelligence failure on the Hamas attacks can be traced to the decision to rely on AI instead of the contrarian analysis born of the earlier intelligence...
by Ambra Visentin
Wars and armies are accelerating the climate crisis. And as the major powers gather in Egypt for COP27 on climate, their political representatives are reluctant to talk about the elephant in the room: the decisive impact of...
By Amy Westerwelt for the Intercept
Back in late 2021, as Russian President Vladimir Putin began mobilizing troops at the Ukraine border, the fossil fuel industry got its foot soldiers ready too. With the threat of Russian aggression and subsequent...
By Anna Bisignano
Chad is a country rich in oil and raw materials, but it is also rich in renewable energy (read our country file here). The country has in fact on average a level of solar irradiation between 2,000...
By Francesca Romana
Social media for peace: this is the name of the UNESCO project involving Bosnia and Herzegvina among three pilot countries for its trial run until 2023. As can be seen from the project's web page, its objectives...
"The first victim of conflicts is always the truth"
- Ivo Andrič
By Emanuele Giordana*
The wars of the 21st century have more eyes upon them than they did in the 20th. Perhaps, therefore, able to mitigate Ivo Andrič's famous aphorism that...
The war in Ukraine has raised concerns about the possible use of nuclear weapons by Russia and a possible subsequent US response. With these infographics - curated by Valentina Ochner - we try to give an overview of Russian...
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...
By Maurizio Sacchi
As Ottawa's new police chief prepares to remove the blockade of no-vax truckers that is paralysing Canada's capital city, the clash between supporters and opponents of the so-called Freedom Convoy is shifting to the web. And, from...
