Ukraina har dömts av Europadomstolen ( Europeiska domstolen för de mänskliga rättigheterna ) för mordbranden i Odessa 2014. Artikel av Risto Uljas i Naapuriseuran sanomat 16 mars 2025.
On Thursday, January 16, Belgian MPs will vote on a resolution proposing to remove US nuclear weapons stationed in the country, and join the UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. UPDATE 17/01: Despite a close-run vote, the resolution did not pass (74 against vs 66 in favour). The close margin indicates how controversial the presence of US nuclear weapons on Belgian territory is to both citizens and the 66 elected representatives that voted in favour of removing those weapons and joining the UN #nuclearban treaty.
1950 "The atom bomb and the bacterial bomb, wielded by the wicked communist or the wicked capitalist as the case may be, make Washington and the Kremlin tremble, and drive men further along the road toward the abyss. If matters are to improve, the first and essential step is to find a way of diminishing fear. The world at present is obsessed by the conflict of rival ideologies, and one of the apparent causes of conflict is the desire for the victory of our own ideology and the defeat of the other. I do not think that the fundamental motive here has much to do with ideologies. I think the ideologies are merely a way of grouping people, and that the passions involved are merely those which always arise between rival groups." .... "Perhaps the best hope for the future of mankind is that ways will be found of increasing the scope and intensity of sympathy."
Michael Roberts 5.2.25: "...war is the way out of economic stagnation... Germany’s Chancellor-to-be Friedrich Merz (after winning the recent election) has adopted the same story. In a complete about-face from his election campaign, when he opposed any extra fiscal spending in order to ‘balance’ the government books, he is now promoting a plan to inject hundreds of billions in extra funding into Germany’s military and infrastructure, designed to revive and re-arm Europe’s largest economy. "
FTs chefredaktör Martin Wolf har något att säga svenska politiker i en artikel från 11.7.2023, betitlad Väst måste erkänna sitt hyckleri:
”Vi befinner oss i en tävling mellan system. Jag hoppas att demokratin och den individuella friheten till slut vinner. På lång sikt har de en god chans att göra det. Men vi måste också komma ihåg de hot som vi nu står inför mot freden, välståndet och planeten. Att ta itu med dessa kommer att kräva ett djupgående engagemang med Kina. Men om västvärlden ska få det inflytande som man hoppas på måste man inse att dess anspråk på moralisk överlägsenhet varken är obestridliga eller obestridda. Många i vår värld betraktar västmakterna som själviska, självbelåtna och hycklande. De har inte helt fel. Vi måste göra mycket bättre ifrån oss.”
Wolf har varit framsynt förr, som när han ansåg sig bli påverkad av Erik Reinerts och Ha-Joong Changs globaliseringskritik och förordande av traditionell keynesiansk socialdemokrati.
by Michael Roberts 2.3.25, who worked in the City of London as an economist for over 40 years. "Trump sees the United States as just a big capitalist corporation of which he is chief executive. Just as he did when he was the boss in the TV show, the Apprentice, he thinks he is running a business and so can employ and fire people at his whim. He has a board of directors…"
Bulletin of the Atom.Sci Trump could renew Reagan's crowning achievement by negotiating with Russia and China to limit the growing numbers of new nuclear weapons.
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