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Issue No. 360 (2024/3)
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COVER:
The nuclear non-option
Negating
the nuclear threat
By Lean Ka-Min
As the terrifying prospect of nuclear conflict looms over the horizon,
it is time to put an end to these supremely destructive weapons before
they put an end to us.
Reflections
on the atomic destruction of Hiroshima and the present nuclear resurgence
By Arjun Makhijani
The history of the development of the nuclear bomb is rife with
delusion upon deadly delusion, right up to the present day.
Honour
the victims of the nuclear age by bringing it to an end
By Ivana Nikolić Hughes
Speaking at the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Preparatory Committee
at the UN in Geneva on 23 July, Ivana Nikolić Hughes called
for righting the wrongs caused by past nuclear arms use and testing
while looking to a future free of these weapons. Below is the text of
her speech.
Expendable
lands and colonial legacies: Nuclear testing in the Marshall Islands
By Alicia Berube
The US’s testing of nuclear weapons in the Marshall Islands, which
has wrought ruinous health and environmental impacts down the years,
reflects a colonialist attitude of exploitation and disregard.
Suffer
the children
A nuclear
strike or test will inflict great and terrible harm all round, but to
children most of all. The following extract from a report by the International
Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) explains why the smallest
victims of these weapons are the biggest casualties.
The
triad is not the trinity
Or, ending
my thermonuclear odyssey
By William J. Astore
US military veteran William J. Astore ponders the madness
of his country’s nuclear force, much of which is redundant and obsolete
and all of it deserving of dismantlement.
ECOLOGY
Resisting
the new green colonialism
By Saber Ammar
A drive to produce green hydrogen in Tunisia prioritises European
energy needs over local sovereignty.
US
corporations pump aquifers dry as police kill water defenders in rural
Mexico
By David Bacon
Farmers are risking their lives to fight back against the US-owned
factory farms that are destroying Mexico’s water.
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HEALTH
& SAFETY
The
20-year battle against a silent disease
By
Nils Sabin
The
fight against Chagas disease in Bolivia has also been a fight against
stigmatisation, misconcep-tions and lack of funding.
ECONOMICS
The
coming tax-the-rich rumble in Rio
By Sam Pizzigati
Amid sky-high inequality, the world’s major economies are considering,
for the first time, a global deal to tax the ultra-rich.
WORLD
AFFAIRS
The
UN’s settler-colonial bloc
By Craig Mokhiber
Introducing WEOG, the white world’s grouping which wields disproportionate
power in the United Nations and pursues an agenda rooted in colonial
logic.
HUMAN
RIGHTS
‘We
are going to turn our pain into rights’
By Daniela Díaz Rangel
The women searching for victims of forced disappearance in Colombia
seek justice for their loved ones and protection for their work as
peacebuilders.
WOMEN
Chilean
fisherwomen seek visibility and escape from vulnerability
By Orlando Milesi
Orlando Milesi highlights the struggle for rights and recognition
waged by fisherwomen in one of the world’s leading fishing countries.
ACTIONS
& ALTERNATIVES
Nurturing
seeds of freedom in Palestine
By Marta Vidal
To the agroecological farmers in the West Bank working in the
shadow of Israeli occupation, ‘agriculture is resistance’.
CULTURE
Goodbye
Julia
brings Sudan front and centre
By Yassmin Abdel-Magied
Director Mohamed Kordofani speaks with Yassmin Abdel-Magied
about how the film became a powerful exploration of injustice and
reconciliation.
VIEWPOINT
The
last days of mankind
By Pankaj Mishra
Even as their long-held guiding intellectual assumptions now lie
shattered, Western policymakers and journalists have been unable to
come to terms with the reality of decolonisation in all its political,
economic and cultural manifestations. Pankaj Mishra examined
this failure in a 16 September lecture in Toronto, Canada, on the
occasion of his acceptance of the 2024 Weston International Award.
The text of the speech is reproduced below.
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World Resurgence Page
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