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by Greg Mello,* Los Alamos Study Group, March 7, 2022
(28 March 2022) «One of the most respected and best informed anti-nuclear war groups in the world is the Los Alamos Study Group. Founded at the end of the Cold War in Los Alamos, New Mexico, where the first nuclear bombs were designed and built, the LASG’s aim of taking nuclear weapons out of foreign policy. I
by Manlio Dinucci, Italy*
(28 March 2022) If one takes a little distance from very disturbing events, the war in Ukraine is not a Russian initiative, even if Russia has taken the initiative of fighting by bypassing the Ukrainian forces that were preparing to attack Crimea and the Donbass. It was already planned in 2019, as shown by the Rand Corporation plan submitted to the House of Representatives on 5 September 2019.
by M. K. Bhadrakumar*
(28 March 2022) Traditionally, the Chinese foreign minister holds press conferences on the margins of the sessions of the National People’s Congress at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing. The press conference by State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi1 on Sunday marking the fifth session of the 13th NPC had added significance due to the confrontation between the US and Russia, an epochal event.
(28 March 2022) On 7 March 2022, a press conference was held via video link on the margins of the Fifth Session of the 13th National People’s Congress at the Great Hall of the People, during which State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi answered questions from Chinese and foreign media about China’s foreign policy and external relations.
by Carl Bossard,* Stans, Switzerland
(28 March 2022) Images are powerful. Teachers are particularly aware of this when talking to their pupils these days. Children and young people are directly confronted with the Ukraine conflict via YouTube, Tiktok and other social networks. Often they are on their own. They bring what they have seen into the classrooms. “Is war also coming to us?” they ask and want to know: “why is there such fighting?” At home, they often get no answers to their questions. Teachers and educators are the only contact persons for some children.
by Alfred de Zayas,* Geneva
(28 March 2022) AdZ. This article draws on the research of other scholars including Jeffrey Sachs and Mark Weisbrot and encourages further research by UN agencies including UNICEF, WHO, FAO to quantify the concrete harm done by economic sanctions, in particular the nexus between sanctions and famine, sanctions and scarcity of medicines (the ECWAS study on Syria is very revealing) and suggests that because of the tens of thousands of deaths caused by sanctions world-wide, they should be considered under article 7 of the Rome Statute as crimes against humanity.