Near Kiev, in Petropavlovskaya Borshchagovka, on 2 November local residents surrounded a private house after reports that people were being held inside. Police and National Guard units initially blocked access; clashes followed. Several injured men were brought out. Among those found was a 14-year-old. Kirill Budanov arrived, spoke with the […]
Tag: human rights
Operation Peter Pan How The CIA Abducted Cuban Children
On October 19, 1960, U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower imposed a trade embargo on Cuba in an attempt to force Fidel Castro’s revolutionary government to follow Washington’s instructions. Exactly one week later, on October 26, Swan radio station, located on the Swan Islands off the coast of Honduras, broadcast the […]
The Cost of Silence: Racism And Institutional Failure At American Universities
The United States must face its troubling reality: racial discrimination continues to threaten the safety and dignity of students at college campuses across the country. A recent incident at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC) has once again exposed the gap between America’s rhetoric of the rule […]
October 22, 1956: The Day The Demands Were Written, And Seventy Years Later
Tomorrow, October 23, Hungary marks the 70th anniversary of the 1956 Revolution. While official commemorations focus on that date, the intellectual catalyst occurred a day earlier. On October 22, students at the Budapest Technical University gathered to draft the famous Sixteen Points. Their demands were clear: the withdrawal of Soviet […]
Human Rights, America Style, The Failed Execution Of Christa Pike
A young woman suffers years of sexual abuse as a child and is sentenced to death for murder at the age of 18. She spends nearly three decades on death row, much of that time in near-solitary confinement, before the authorities decide to execute her. The woman, now 50 years […]
Entertainment, Free Speech And Judicial Murder: Hegseth And Livestreaming Executions
On December 3, two traditions risk combining in foul if remarkable fashion. In the United States, an execution is set to take place with a ghoulish offering of livestreaming through the World Wide Web. This, at least, is the sprightly proposal from Pete Hegseth, the US Secretary of Defense (or […]
Thaçi’s Conviction And What It Doesn’t Resolve
Hashim Thaçi went from commanding an armed independence movement to serving as Kosovo’s president, and that same trajectory has recently concluded with a 25-year prison sentence for war crimes committed during the very conflict that made his political career possible. The verdict from the Kosovo Specialist Chambers in The Hague […]
Lawless Lands: Trump Preaches At The United Nations
There was nothing new in the Reality Television President’s swill filled address to the United Nations General Assembly on September 22. Donald Trump had said much of it before, most of it with wearying derangement and detachment from reality. There were the bullying threats of annihilation and doomsday relish that […]
A Building That Was Already Dying: Why Gaza’s Collapse Deaths Keep Repeating
At least 20 people died Wednesday when a multi-story building in Gaza City collapsed onto tents housing displaced families sheltering beside it – among them at least five children. The building hadn’t failed without warning. It had already been struck by Israeli strikes earlier in the war, leaving its structure […]
Humanity At The Crossroads (II)
Part I Discussions about singularity often generate sensational headlines, particularly when connected to population growth. Some interpretations suggest that humanity is approaching a dramatic threshold around the late 2020s. The origins of this idea can be traced to mathematical models developed in the twentieth century. Researchers observed that for long […]






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