Gabrielle Canon It will perhaps come as no surprise that 2024 will be crowned the hottest year on record. Marked by a cascade of devastating weather events, missed climate goals and the ravenous consumption of fossil fuels that broke records in its own right, the world continued its grim march up the thermometer, toppling theContinue reading “Last year broke heat records across the world – is 2025 destined to be more of the same?”
Tag Archives: Afghanistan
The fall of Assad is a defeat for Russia — and no ‘win’ for the US
By Anatol Lieven. We should note that for every bad outcome for Moscow here, Washington faces an equally unstable path, too The fall of the Baath state in Syria is a serious defeat for Russia (and a disaster for Iran). It would however be a grave mistake to assume that this by necessity makes itContinue reading “The fall of Assad is a defeat for Russia — and no ‘win’ for the US”
America and Britain’s dual role and Syria going to have to be able to make themselves less dependent on past meddlers
Throughout the last 3 decades, we could see how America and Britain had two faces, not shy of providing resources against certain regimes they saw an obstacle to their own interests. From 1979 to 1989, the United States (along with Saudi Arabia and Pakistan) armed and financed the Afghan Islamist fighters known as the mujahideenContinue reading “America and Britain’s dual role and Syria going to have to be able to make themselves less dependent on past meddlers”
Sloth fever, mpox, bird flu, lead exposure and polio vaccinations
On the restaurant terraces of one of Mombasa’s most exclusive hotels, armed watchmen await the approaching marauders. But the guards posted at strategic points around the Voyager Hotel, or patrolling its restaurants and grounds, are armed not with rifles, but with catapults. Their mission is to protect guests from the flocks of audacious Indian houseContinue reading “Sloth fever, mpox, bird flu, lead exposure and polio vaccinations”
Health issues for the last week of November 2023
Asian neighbours ‘put guard up’ amid fears China’s wave of disease will spread India, Nepal, Taiwan and Thailand ramp up surveillance and tell doctors to be on alert for pneumonia cases. Chinese paediatric hospital wards have been overwhelmed in recent weeks, as respiratory viruses and the bacteria mycoplasma pneumoniae surge following years of suppressed transmissionContinue reading “Health issues for the last week of November 2023”
Israel’s 9/11 versus US 9/11
The Hamas incursion from Gaza into Israel and the subsequent attack on Israel’s Southern District that began on October 7, 2023, led to the death of more than 1,500 Israelis and foreigners. The atrocities, widely reported as Israel’s 9/11, have been met with international condemnation, along with support for Israel, especially from the United States.Continue reading “Israel’s 9/11 versus US 9/11”
Smog in New Delhi, elimination of hepatitis C, global tuberculosis rates & Gaza’s hospitals
Top stories for the 2nd week of November 2023
A locust timebomb
Hundreds of thousands of locusts have descended on crops in northern Afghanistan Credit: WAKIL KOHSAR/AFP via Getty Images Afghanistan is facing a locust timebomb after billions of eggs were laid by the grasshoppers in the country’s breadbasket, raising fears that a plague of insects will devastate food supplies next year. For the first time inContinue reading “A locust timebomb”
Peter Mertens in gesprek met Stella Assange
De Australische journalist, programmeur (voormalige hacker) en internetactivist Julian Assange legde met zijn mediaplatform WikiLeaks de oorlogsmisdaden van Amerikaanse en Europese legers in Irak en Afghanistan bloot. Doordat het uit kwam wie er achter WikiLeaks zat, werd hij persona non grata, en had hij geen vaste woon- of verblijfplaats meer; hij sliep op luchthavens enContinue reading “Peter Mertens in gesprek met Stella Assange”
Where do the women stand
Last month there was International Women’s Day, and organisations around the world came highlighting the need to address ongoing issues such as gender inequality, reproductive rights, and violence and abuse against women. So where does the world stand in 2023? Sophie Zeldin-O’Neill, Deputy Editor, Reader Revenues The first week of March, UN secretary general AntónioContinue reading “Where do the women stand”
Some View on the World 