Does CIA nominee Gina Haspel agree with US convictions of Japanese for water torture?
A timely and groundbreaking book breaks the silence over a little-known UN agency operating between 1943 and 1948, the UNWCC – a key chapter in our war-time experience. Excerpts.
Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE As national security becomes increasingly understood as the advancement of military technologies, the concept of disarmament has become little more than a Cold War relic. We must save it.
This is drawn from remarks at a meeting in the House of Lords chaired by Lord Phillips of Sudbury on Shareholder Accountability and a Fair Society, as part of a SOAS project. Plesch first articulated the limited liability problem in his book, The Beauty Queen's Guide to World Peace.
Short and long term human, political and economic consequences of any war require innovative approaches to prevent the crisis becoming war: such a case clearly exists with Iran and her nuclear ambitions.
Senior military figures have called on the British Prime Minster to scrap proposals to increase Britain's overseas aid spending and enshrine it in law. But Britain should keep its promise and go further, restoring the wartime UN to the proper place in its political culture.
The so-called nuclear renaissance is irrational. Just look to Libya and Japan.
"Peace on Earth" is a seasonal wish at this time of year. It also one of the themes in Stanley Kubrick's excoriating satire of militaristic madness,
The owners and directors of corporations must be made accountable in law for their actions. Owner-shareholders and top executives exercise immense power, both globally and locally, but are not responsible
I was invited to attend an Institute of Public Policy Research (ippr)/ London School of Economics one-day conference on 15 July 2006 to discuss a new "progressive foreign policy&
The report published by a panel headed by Paul Volcker on the oil-for-food scandal at the United Nations is a serious indictment of the UNs management of a complex
