Articles by: Roger McKenzie

The Global South Is Done Waiting for the UN to Solve Humanity’s Challenges

The Global South Is Done Waiting for the UN to Solve Humanity’s Challenges

Dag Hammarskjöld, the tragic second United Nations secretary general, once said the organization “was created not to lead mankind to heaven but to save humanity from hell.” Of course, this depends very much on what kind of hell you had in mind. The fallout from Adolf Hitler’s extermination camps must have dominated Hammarskjöld’s world during his tenure from 1953 until[Read More…]

by 15/04/2023 Comments are Disabled World
The Simple Reason Why the U.S. Wants ‘Full Spectrum Dominance’ of the Earth

The Simple Reason Why the U.S. Wants ‘Full Spectrum Dominance’ of the Earth

Imagine the uproar if China or Russia—or any other country for that matter—said it aimed to exercise military control over land, sea, air, and space to protect its interests and investments. This amazingly has been the stated United States policy since 1997. Full spectrum dominance, as the doctrine is known, is the reason the United States behaves the way that[Read More…]

by 01/04/2023 Comments are Disabled World
Half a million tons of methane rise from the sabotaged Nord Stream pipeline. Photo: Swedish Coast Guard

There’s an International Media War for the Truth About Who Sabotaged the Nord Stream Pipeline

News reports emerging from Germany and the United States claim that a pro-Ukrainian group was behind the blowing up of the Nord Stream gas pipelines in the Baltic Sea in September 2022. German daily newspaper Die Zeit, public broadcasters ARD and SWR, and the ARD political magazine Kontraste reported in March 2023 that investigators were able to reconstruct how the pipelines[Read More…]

by 11/03/2023 Comments are Disabled World
Now Is the Time for Nonalignment and Peace

Now Is the Time for Nonalignment and Peace

by Roger McKenzie and Vijay Prashad War is an ugly part of the human experience. Everything about it is hideous. War is most obviously the act of invasion and the brutality that goes along with its operations. No war is precise; every war hurts civilians. Each act of bombardment sends a neurological shudder through a society. World War II demonstrated[Read More…]

by 19/04/2022 Comments are Disabled World