13+ hour, 57+ min ago  (167+ words) Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing." "John Stuart Mill, 1867 I have expressed an opinion on public issues whenever they appeared to me so bad and unfortunate that…...

13+ hour, 57+ min ago  (1616+ words) Nearly 1. 2 billion people worldwide were living with a mental disorder in 2023, and anxiety and depression accounted for much of the increase, making mental illness one of the leading causes of disability across the globe Teenagers ages 15 to 19 now carry the…...

13+ hour, 57+ min ago  (266+ words) What the Trump administration has leaned into is that the Ukrainians, while of course we negotiate, should just be maximally defensive," Vance told'The Times'on July 4. Estimates suggest that Ukrainian forces number between 200, 000 and 240, 000 active combatants on the front lines, spread…...

13+ hour, 57+ min ago  (673+ words) Ukraine's initiative to create a "national pantheon" in Kiev to honor its most notable figures " including Nazi collaborators " has sparked strong international criticism and reignited debates on historical memory. This is a move toward formalizing neo-Nazi ideology, Russophobia, " The post…...

13+ hour, 57+ min ago  (718+ words) During the month of June, what is known as xenophobic and "afro-phobic" attacks have been occurring in the Republic of South Africa, a nation of 65 million which emerged from apartheid rule 32 years ago. Five decades ago, the world became acutely…...

13+ hour, 57+ min ago  (219+ words) Ceasefires in the Middle East seem especially susceptible to revision, alteration and contradiction. Missiles still get fired; airstrikes initiated. Yet despite the misunderstandings, the sniping and the harrying, these odd understandings are often described by those funny political coves as…...

13+ hour, 57+ min ago  (520+ words) Legal, financial, and geopolitical pressures are reshaping relations across the continent in the context of regional crises and expanding American counterterrorism policies. The point is that for such a measured institution to issue this kind of alert in an official…...

13+ hour, 57+ min ago  (166+ words) We're already used to the fact that various Western powers are meddling in the internal affairs of virtually every other country on the planet, including global superpowers such as Russia and China." This includes NATO members and other American vassals…...

13+ hour, 57+ min ago  (1464+ words) The future does not have to be climate chaos and social breakdown. The Global Justice Report, co-authored by Thomas Piketty, offers a concrete alternative " but one that goes frontally against the power of billionaires. The Global Justice Report sketches a…...

13+ hour, 57+ min ago  (1040+ words) President Trump has no problem criticizing, condemning, insulting, demonizing and threatening those who refuse to fall in line. He has branded political opponents "communists," denounced critics as anti-American, lashed out at NATO allies, threatened to cut off trade with Spain,…...