War

For more than 500 years, the Congo has been brutalized by the extraordinary violence inflicted by those who have treated the country as a resource – for slaves, rubber, timber, wildlife and minerals – to be exploited.

“The numbers continue to accelerate, not only because many wars continue to be waged, but also because wars don't end when soldiers come home.”

Amidst calls for peace, a night of retaliation heightens fears of an all-out war.

Dealing with stalemates between Russia and Ukraine, environmentalists and climate change, and COVID and humanity.

The former Prime Minister has no conscience at all and feels no guilt for all those maimed and lost in his wars of choice.

So there is more than a little poetic justice – or is it irony? – in General Abizaid’s proposed posting to Riyadh.

Alex de Waal says famine in Gaza is “inevitable” as those warnings have been ignored and Israel’s war on Gaza is poised to continue.

The International Criminal Court’s chief prosecutor applies for arrest warrants against Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu, Defense Minister Gallant, and top Hamas leaders, charging them with war crimes and crimes against humanity from the October 7 attacks and ensuing Gaza conflict.

Here we go again.

Military power no longer seems to act as it once did on Planet Earth. Under distinctly apocalyptic pressures, something seems to be breaking down, something seems to be fragmenting.