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Will The Weather Eventually Provoke Radical Action On Climate?| Countercurrents
With two world summits on the global environment at the end of last year – COP27 and COP15 – there should have been the prospect of an immediate impact on the → Read More
Will the weather eventually provoke radical action on climate?
To be blunt, climate forecasters have for years pointed to increased frequency and intensity of extreme weather events and that is now happening, repeatedly and across the world. → Read More
Why a winter end to the war in Ukraine is unlikely
Are there prospects for peace in Ukraine amid Russian missile attacks and a winter battlefield stalemate? → Read More
Can Tories’ neoliberalism survive the UK’s darkening mood?
Growing anger over rising inequality makes the UK a testing ground for late-stage capitalist economic model → Read More
OPINION: Ukraine stand-off increases nuclear risk from Putin
As NATO-backed pressure mounts on Russia’s troops, so too does the risk from weapons of mass destruction → Read More
Russia’s attack on Ukraine is likely to continue for weeks – if not months
Any major concessions from Putin would risk not only his vision of a Greater Russia, but his future too → Read More
To Vladimir Putin’s mind, chemical weapons might just seem a good idea
Knowing that he cannot afford to fail, the Russian leader may be willing to use the most grotesque means to break Ukrainian resistance, says academic Paul Rogers → Read More
How the Ukraine invasion ends may depend on China and Russian mothers
While everything suggests Russia may now be in serious trouble, there are still reasons for caution → Read More
UK activists keep being acquitted by juries. What does that mean for protest?
Johnson’s government is therefore left with a huge problem, and one response is to bring in much tougher legislation against public protest → Read More
COP26 focused on long-term climate goals. But what does this decade hold?
Change must happen before 2030 to avoid disaster. Despite the disappointment around Glasgow, climate science and activism offer hope of progress → Read More
Why are ultra-rich allowed to gain from crises that hit poorest the worst?
A wealth tax would bring fairness to the rising pandemic and climate costs. Yet the UK’s neoliberal brainwashing means it’s not even on the table → Read More
Sunak hides behind rose-tinted glasses as COVID and climate threats rise
Budget ignores need for emission cuts, while government’s consistent incompetence puts Britons at greater risk from looming variants → Read More
Reflecting on 1,000 columns over 20 years: the predictions that came true
On an openDemocracy milestone for Paul Rogers, he gives an insight into the late 20th-century landscape that shaped his accurate war analysis → Read More
The 9/11 advice that Tony Blair didn’t take
Before the invasion of Afghanistan, openDemocracy’s security expert briefed the UK government on what could happen. Here’s what he wrote → Read More
US has no intention of a global military retreat despite Biden’s promise
The military-industrial complex that feeds the US economy will lead to more remote warfare as a myriad of risks diminish worldwide security → Read More
Afghan ISIS offshoot ISKP takes on Taliban and US with deadly Kabul bombing
Airport attack that killed 90, including 13 American soldiers, is a warning shot of dissent among extremist Islamists that could spark air war → Read More
With or without the Taliban, COVID and climate will inspire terrorism
For the Islamists at least, their role in Afghanistan will be just a minor part of a much more relevant world scene → Read More
Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, the Islamic State: western intervention is a catalogue of failure
This week’s victory by the Taliban in Afghanistan now stands as an inspiration to militants around the world, says professor of peace studies Paul Rogers → Read More
Afghanistan’s future path to be determined by a corridor of power
The expanding Taliban’s new bond with China across a narrow border is set to greatly impact the region, and further diminish human rights → Read More
Boris Johnson is leading the UK into an even greater COVID catastrophe
Insistence on reopening despite Delta is not only ‘epidemiological stupidity’ but only one part of an abject failure to support global vaccination → Read More