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A 90 segundos del fin del mundo
August 24, 2024

Cada guerra nace de una crisis económica. Mediante la guerra se recluta a los desempleados y se reactiva la factura de bienes que, como los armamentos, sólo sirven para ser destruidos

Eight Contradictions of Imperialist ‘Rules-Based Order’
March 11, 2023

The neoliberal system is deteriorating under the weight of numerous internal contradictions, historical injustices and lack of economic viability, writes Vijay Prashad.

Eight Contradictions of Imperialist ‘Rules-Based Order’
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‘Doomsday clock’: 90 Seconds to Midnight
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‘Doomsday clock’: 90 Seconds to Midnight
January 29, 2023

The Clock had been set at 100 seconds since 2020. The Bulletin’s Science and Security Board and a group of sponsors – which includes 10 Nobel laureates – have focused on “Russia’s war on Ukraine” (their terminology) as the main reason.

Hardly Anyone Is Thinking Logically About the Risk of Nuclear War
January 25, 2023

The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists has moved its symbolic Doomsday Clock to ninety seconds to midnight, the closest it has ever been set since its founding after the second world war. Chief among their reasons for doing so is the increasingly dangerous war in Ukraine.

Hardly Anyone Is Thinking Logically About the Risk of Nuclear War
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Chernobyl Alert and The Doomsday Clock
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Chernobyl Alert and The Doomsday Clock
May 21, 2021

It is known that this significant renewal of fission activity is located in Sub-Reactor Room 305/2, which contains large amounts of fissile material from the initial meltdown.

Trump Didn’t End Endless Wars, He Extended the Carnage
December 9, 2020

President-elect Joe Biden is not vowing to end wars, but instead to “strengthen” U.S. global power and interventions. One can only shudder at the pernicious prospect of more American wars, mass killing and destruction.

Trump Didn’t End Endless Wars, He Extended the Carnage
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Less Than Two Minutes to Midnight – and Getting Closer
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Less Than Two Minutes to Midnight – and Getting Closer
September 17, 2020

But today, the leaders of the West have totally repressed the dangers of thermonuclear Armageddon.

One Minute to Midnight
February 14, 2019

The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists is wrong to keep the hands of the Doomsday Clock stuck at two minutes to midnight. The situation is far more grave than its assessed “new abnormal” would suggest. The world is on the edge of the nuclear abyss. It’s one minute before midnight, and we are acting as if we still have time. We don’t.

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