World’s first Atlas of Impunity

Munich(PRWEB) February 17, 2023:

The Eurasia Group and the Chicago Council on Global Affairs today publish the world’s first Atlas of Impunity at the Munich Security Conference, a comprehensive index which tracks the abuse of power across five key societal dimensions – unaccountable governance, abuse of human rights, conflict, economic exploitation. and environmental degradation.

The US is closer to the median than top performers and ranks higher on impunity than both Hungary and Singapore. The US result reflects a weaker performance on the conflict and violence and human rights indicators. More broadly, none of the “great” powers do great.

The legacies of colonialism and the slave trade are correlated with higher impunity scores. Nearly all the 20 countries with the highest levels of impunity according to the Atlas are former colonies or affected by colonialism. Similarly, about one-third of the 30 worst-ranked countries were affected by the slave trade. But some countries that have suffered from the historical legacy of slavery and colonization, such as Ghana and Senegal, score well on the Atlas. This indicates that impunity scores are informed by circumstance but dictated by policy choices. In fact, on the abuse of human rights dimension, Senegal ranks better than the US.

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Lietuvos Nepriklausomybės Aktas

16.02.1918, Vilnius:

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Clare Daly on Seymour Hersh Nord Stream article

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Seymour Hersh Berliner Zeitung interview about Nord Stream

Seymour Hersh in Berliner Zeitung interview:

Ich glaube nicht, dass Außenminister Blinken und einige andere in der Regierung tiefgründige Denker sind.

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Guardian:

Jeremy Corbyn led the Labour party for nearly five years. Photograph: Kirsty O’Connor/PA

Jeremy Corbyn will not stand as a Labour MP at the next election, Keir Starmer has said, as he vowed to paint his party as one that has changed under his leadership.

Starmer had previously publicly indicated that Corbyn would not be able to stand as a Labour candidate, but had not gone as far as confirming the barring of the Islington North MP.

“Let me be very clear, Jeremy Corbyn will not stand at the next general election as a Labour party candidate,” Starmer said on Wednesday while answering questions after a speech in east London. “What I said about the party changing, I meant, and we are not going back, and that is why Jeremy Corbyn will not stand as a Labour candidate at the next general election.”

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Three objects shot down after Chinese spy balloon may be benign, White House says

Guardian:

Three unidentified objects shot down by US fighter jets since Friday may turn out to be balloons connected to “benign” commercial or research efforts, a White House official said on Tuesday.

The US has not found any evidence to connect the objects to China’s balloon surveillance program nor to any other country’s spy program, national security council spokesperson, John Kirby, told reporters.

“We haven’t seen any indication or anything that points specifically to the idea that these three objects were part of the [People’s Republic of China’s] spying program, or that they were definitively involved in external intelligence collection efforts,” he said.

Instead, a “leading explanation” may be that the objects were operated privately for commercial or research purposes, Kirby said, though no one has stepped forward to claim ownership.

The unidentified object shot down by a US fighter jet over northern Canada on Saturday was a “small, metallic balloon with a tethered payload below it”, according to a Pentagon memo to US lawmakers obtained by CNN.

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Sevim Dağdelen on Hersh Nord Stream article

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Ray McGovern on Seymour Hersh’s Nord Stream article

Transcription of Ray’s Feb 11 Comments on Sy Hersh – Ray McGovern
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Göring-Eckardt: Aufruf „naiv“ und „unehrlich“

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„Die Ukraine verteidigt nicht nur ihr eigenes Land, sondern auch unsere Freiheit und vor allem die europäische Sicherheit“, argumentierte Göring-Eckardt, die in Ehrenämtern in der evangelischen Kirche engagiert ist.

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Eine irrationale Angst vor dem Dritten Weltkrieg

Joachim Krause, FAZ:

Eskalationsphobie – eine deutsche Krankheit?

Anderswo wird darüber debattiert, wie man das ukrainische Volk angemessen ausstatten kann, damit dieses sein Land befreien kann. Hierzulande herrscht eine irrationale Angst vor dem Dritten Weltkrieg. Da muss der Kanzler eingreifen.

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