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6 days ago | slguardian.org | Fyodor Lukyanov

Eighty years is a long time. Over such a span, the world changes almost beyond recognition, and events that once felt close fade into legend. Yet while history may become distant, its imprint remains. The Second World War created a political order that shaped global affairs for decades – an order many assumed was permanent. But today, the world is shifting rapidly and irreversibly.

1 week ago | slguardian.org | Eric Margolis

One of the world’s, oldest and most dangerous conflicts went critical this past week as nuclear armed India and Pakistan traded threats of war. The Kashmir conflict is the oldest one before the UN. In my book `War at the Top of the World’ I warned that the confrontation over Kashmir, the beautiful mountain state claimed by both Islamabad and Delhi, could unleash a nuclear war that could kill millions and pollute the planet.

1 week ago | slguardian.org | Marjorie Hecht

The rapid growth of digital technologies in the last quarter-century has multiplied the number and types of possible influences on individual values and opinions. Has the digital era changed the level of social conformity in the population? And how can this be measured? A 2023 meta-analysis of research on conformity suggests that the level of social conformity from January 2004 to December 2022 has remained the same, despite the explosion of social media.

1 week ago | slguardian.org

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1 week ago | slguardian.org | Vijay Prashad

No country should go through what Venezuela has been going through since 2017. The FACTS graphic above shows that US-led sanctions (more aptly referred to as Unilateral Coercive Measures, or UCMs) caused Venezuela to lose oil revenue equivalent to 213% of its GDP between January 2017 and December 2024. In total, the country suffered an estimated $226 billion in losses – around $77 million per day – during this period.