Genom att luta sig mot kravet på saklighet och opartiskhet kan biblioteken vara en del av totalförsvaret utan att det krockar med demokratiuppdraget. Det säger Erik Fichtelius som står bakom förslaget till nationell biblioteksstrategi.
Mads Gilbert och Erik Fosse till NRK före avresan från Kairo till Gaza: "Vi vil ta oss til Gaza by og stille oss til disposisjon for palestinske helsemyndigheter og ta fatt på det medisinske arbeidet med de skadde. Begge vi to er forberedt på å jobbe hard
"The average volume of worldwide arms transfers for 2005–2009 was 22 per cent higher than the period 2000–2004. [...] Greece remains among the top five largest recipient of major conventional weapons for 2005-2009, but has fallen from third place for 2000
JENNY CLEGG looks ahead at a year where an increasingly multipolar world will challenge US dominance
"The founding proclamation of the UN: “We the peoples … determine to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war” also reaffirmed faith in fundamental human rights, and committed to establish conditions of respect for international treaties and laws, and to promote social progress and better standards of life.
It is now time to reassert the role of the UN at the centre of world politics by reclaiming the “We the people” declaration from below in a grass-roots movement for international co-operation on climate change alongside the fundamental principles of peace and social justice.
How did the U.S. Air Force respond on 9/11? Could it have shot down United 93, as conspiracy theorists claim? Obtaining 30 hours of never-before-released tapes from the control room of NORAD's Northeast head-quarters, the author reconstructs the chaotic military history of that day—and the Pentagon's apparent attempt to cover it up.
It is the fog and friction of war live—the authentic military history of 9/11.
Dana Priest & William Arkin: "The top-secret world the government created in response to the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, has become so large, so unwieldy and so secretive that no one knows how much money it costs, how many people it employs, how
A near-disaster at a federal nuclear weapons laboratory takes a hidden toll on America's arsenal
Repeated safety lapses hobble Los Alamos National Laboratory’s work on the cores of U.S. nuclear warheads
Legality of the Threat or Use of Nuclear Weapons [1996] ICJ 2 is a landmark international law case, where the International Court of Justice gave an advisory opinion stating that there is no source of law, customary or treaty, that explicitly prohibits the possession or even use of nuclear weapons. The only requirement being that their use must be in conformity with the law on self-defence and principles of international humanitarian law.[1]
Paul Rogers in OpenDemocracy 11 Feb 2010. "The Kajaki power-plant experience [2008] has implications, direct and indirect, for Operation Moshtarak. First, it reveals the possibility of Nato using its huge firepower advantages to push Taliban paramilitarie
3.5.2012: General Electric och Hitachi vill anrika uran med laser. Nu väntar man bara på ett myndighetsbeslut om anläggningen för att den topphemliga metoden ska tillåtas. Kritikerna anser att risken för kärnvapenspridning ökar.