This article appeared first on the Italian website of the Atlas of Wars on september 18, 2021. It was written by our Director, Italian journalist Raffaele Crocco.
The news we received in September 2021 are signals of one, greater message:...
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 Jeffrey D. Sachs* - Common Dreams, OtherNews
The cabinet of Israel’s Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu is filled with religious extremists who believe that Israel’s brutality in Gaza is at God’s command. According to the Book of Joshua in the...
By Emanuele Profumi from Santiago, Chile
"I feel at the edge of a precipice. I feel dizzy. The Chilean reality is going to be very hard now. We have been experiencing a very deep crisis for a long time: political,...
by Maurizio Sacchi
At an event in Bogota’s main square, Colombia’s Defence Minister Iván Velásquez apologised to the families of the victims of the so-called ‘false positives’. An investigation found that between 2002 and 2008, 6,402 civilians were killed by...
by Higerta Gjergji
Indigenous communities in Sarayaku, in the Ecuadorian Amazon, have been opposing oil exploration in their territory for decades. In 1996, the Argentine company Compañía General de Combustibles (CGC) obtained a contract with the state oil company Petroecuador....
by Ambra Visentin
Almost the entire metropolitan area of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, is in the hands of illegal armed gangs - estimated to number close to 300 groups comprising between 15 and 1,500 men - who have emptied the prisons and...
By Alessandro De Pascale
Half a century after the global war on drugs, launched and imposed on the entire world by the United States (then led by Richard Nixon) more and more nations are calling for a reversal of that...
by Maurizio Sacchi
Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador publicly attacked a Reuters investigation: “They’re cheats, liars,” he said at his press conference. On 18 August, the British news agency described how organised crime groups disguise drug profits: to bring...
By Azeezah Kanji* – Truthout
As the British government moves ever closer to extraditing WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to the United States, the pantomime of “justice” cloaking his persecution in the regalia of the “rule of law” continues to unfold:...
