Crises afflict the world at a rapid velocity. It is hard to keep up with these developments, let alone develop a historical and critical perspective regarding them. Our Red Alert series provides a brief two page assessment of key crises.
Crises afflict the world at a rapid velocity. It is hard to keep up with these developments, let alone develop a historical and critical perspective regarding them. Our Red Alert series provides a brief two page assessment of key crises.
Julian Assange, journalist and co-founder of Wikileaks, helped bring to light the torture and atrocities committed by the United States during its so-called War on Terror. Now the United States wants to imprison Assange for 175 years for obtaining and publishing this classified information. Red Alert no. 13 explains why we must stand up against this attack on journalism and fight to free Julian Assange.
There is nothing more obscene than the existence of hunger, the terrible indignity of working hard but being without the means for sustenance. While 1 in 8 people in the world go hungry, one third of all food produced is either lost during processing and transportation or it is wasted. As we approach World Food Day on 16 October, Red Alert no. 12 explores why hunger persists, explains the campaign to end hunger, and sets forward a path towards creating a just food and distribution system that could finally eliminate world hunger.
As the earth’s triple environmental emergencies of climate change, biodiversity loss, and pollution worsen, drastic measures need to be taken that place greater responsibility on those who generate the crisis, from the US military to the G20. Themed ‘Ecosystem Restoration’ to emphasise how the capitalist system has eroded the earth’s capacity to sustain life, World Environment Day on 5 June is an alarm bell demanding an end to cannibalising the planet, in defence of life over profit.
What began as a trade dispute in the 1990s has now escalated into the United States making an existential challenge against China. The threat against China is made for perfectly rational reasons: the US correctly sees that the Chinese economy is slowly going to be the largest in the world, and that the United States understands that China will soon produce the most advanced technology. Various hybrid war techniques to weaken or overthrow the government are simply not available.
