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Prosecution of military rulers

mardi 1 février 2022 à 23:49

A Burmese dissident calls for prosecution of the military rulers in the International Criminal Court, and a cut-off of arms sales.

Does anyone know which countries still sell arms to the Burmese military government?

Celebrating world instability

mardi 1 février 2022 à 23:49

The CEOs of Lockheed and Raytheon -- two major US military contractors -- celebrated increasing world instability as good for their business.

Oil spill

mardi 1 février 2022 à 23:49

An oil spill from a broken pipeline in the Ecuadorian Amazon has polluted a river that provides drinking water to almost 30,000 people.

State on fire

mardi 1 février 2022 à 23:49

*Where to build in a state on fire? California housing projects face growing challenges.*

Urgent: Dominant tech platforms and payment

mardi 1 février 2022 à 23:49

US citizens: call on regulators to ban ownership of payment systems by the dominant tech platforms.

The main digital payment systems are unjust for two reasons: they require users to run nonfree Javascript code to use them, and they require users to identify themselves. If they were owned by megacompanies, that would be an additional injustice. Preventing that would be good, but would not make them acceptable to use.