In the Human Interest

Battle Over Cobalt In DRC

Will Battle Over Cobalt In DRC Lead To Exploitation, Bloody Conflict?

Photos: YouTube Blood Cobalt? Cobalt is a valuable mineral that is the subject of intense international competition. Not a new subject: In past times ...

Vladimir Putin is trying to accomplish two very dangerous tasks at once

Putin’s Anti-Democratic Assault On Russian Civil Society And Ukraine

Photos: Twitter\YouTube Vladimir Putin is trying to accomplish two very dangerous tasks at once: the destruction of civil society in Russia, and the withering ...

President Biden told President Xi Jinping in their November 16 virtual summit

Biden Must Look For Common Ground To Bridge The US-China Divide

Photos: YouTube\Twitter “It seems clear to me we need to establish some common-sense guardrails,” President Biden told President Xi Jinping in their November 16 ...

annual increases in military spending and the latest lethal weapons.

The Military Spending Gravy Train And Permanent War Economy Robs America While Enriching Corporations, Congress

Photos: YouTube A long time ago, Gordon Adams introduced the term “iron triangle” to characterize the interlocked relationship of the Pentagon’s military services, the ...

North Korea is carrying out one missile test after another lately

North Korea Missile Tests: Sign Of Aggression Or Bargaining Chip?

Photos: YouTube\Twitter North Korea is carrying out one missile test after another lately, at the same time indicating (or is it?) interest in talks ...

Biden Continuing Flawed Dysfunctional China Initiative Policy

Biden Continuing Flawed Dysfunctional China Initiative Policy

Photos: YouTube President Biden is continuing the disengagement policy toward China that began under Donald Trump, with strong bipartisan support. Many people may not ...

US-backed Saudi intervention over the last six years, which has rained destruction on Yemen’s civilian population

The US Disreputable Policy Involvement With Saudi Arabia In Yemen War

Photos: YouTube\Twitter In Yemen, Saudi and Iranian interests collide, a civil war involving multiple parties has devastated the country, a humanitarian crisis has been ...

Bolsonaro is hardly the first Brazilian leader to put extraction of the Amazon’s resource wealth ahead of either the region’s in

Brazil: Carbon Criminal Bolsonaro’s Extortion And Exploitation Of Amazon Strangling “Lungs Of Earth”

Photos: Twitter\YouTube The UN-appointed Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has issued a new report, based on the latest scientific findings, that once again ...

a nearly 20-year period, the war in Afghanistan is estimated to have cost about $2.2 trillion and resulted in more than 240,000

The Taliban Takeover And Afghanistan Debacle: American Hubris In Foreign Policy Wars

Photos: YouTube Over a nearly 20-year period, the war in Afghanistan is estimated to have cost about $2.2 trillion and resulted in more than ...

powerful spyware known as Pegasus, manufactured and leased by the Israeli company NSO Group

The Pegasus Project And The Global Surveillance Spy Business

Photos: YouTube\Twitter We have just learned about a powerful spyware known as Pegasus, manufactured and leased by the Israeli company NSO Group and capable ...