Activists denounce AUKUS alliance as a possible new Cold War and other stories
Today we look at the military pact between Australia, the US, and the UK; sanctions imposed against Guinea’s military junta; and more
Activists, anti-war groups slam trilateral security alliance AUKUS as anti-China move and a return to Cold War
China too slammed the move calling it an “extremely irresponsible” act which may lead to an arms race. It also said that the move reflects “Cold war mentality and ideological biases”
French colonial crimes continue to affect lives in Polynesia
NewsClick’s Prabir Purkayastha talks about the recent analysis of declassified documents from the nuclear testing done by France on the islands of Polynesia
Why we can’t give up on the idea of a world free from nuclear weapons
The Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons came into effect on January 22 but none of the nuclear weapons states are signatories. In fact, the US, in October, asked those governments who signed the treaty to withdraw from it
Chomsky and Prashad: Three major threats to life on earth that we must address in 2021
Noam Chomsky and Vijay Prashad discuss the threats humanity and earth face today that require urgent attention
2020: Nuclear disarmament in limbo, arms race in space?
In the second part of a series of conversations about the geo-political situation, Newsclick’s Prabir Purkayastha analyzes the state of global disarmament and the possibility of the weaponization of space
Hopes rise of extension of New START arms control treaty as Russia offers to freeze arsenal
Russia on Tuesday offered to freeze its current arsenal, and proposed an extension of the treaty by one year. The treaty signed in 2010 capped the number of nuclear warheads by the two countries and its deployment
75 years after Hiroshima, where do we stand?
Newsclick’s Prabir Purkayastha talks about the state of the nuclear threat 75 years after the first atom bomb was dropped in Hiroshima.
Today marks 75 years since the world’s first nuclear bombing
After three quarters of a century of the nuclear bombings, the Japanese people continue to resist creeping militarism and right-ward tilt. The government of Shinzo Abe has been pushing for expanding military power
75 years after Hiroshima, the clock is ticking
This year marks the 75th anniversary of the dropping of the atom bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. To this day, we are under the threat of nuclear war.
75 years after first nuclear explosion, apocalypse still looms
Today is the 75th anniversary of the first nuclear test, the Trinity test which was the culmination of the Manhattan project.
The end of the INF treaty is a blow to global disarmament
On August 2, the withdrawal of the US from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty was formalized. The treaty signed in 1987 had led to the destruction of over 2,600 missiles by the US and Russia
- Belgian organizations protest spike in violence against women
- Anti-fascist sections in Germany protest spike in police brutality
- Occupation forces attack protesters opposing Israeli president’s visit to Ibrahimi mosque in Hebron
- Palestinian administrative detainee Loay al-Ashqar ends hunger strike after deal on release
- Israel approves illegal settlement plan for over 9,000 housing units in Jerusalem
