August 5, 2020
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An Effective COVID Treatment the Media Continues to Besmirch
On Friday, July 31, in a column ostensibly dealing with health care “misinformation,” Washington Post media critic Margaret Sullivan opened by lambasting “fringe doctors spouting dangerous falsehoods about hydroxychloroquine as a COVID-19 wonder cure.” Continue reading
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New Documentary on Julian Assange is About ‘One of the Great Injustices of Our Time’, Director Says
Filmmaker and journalist Pablo Navarrete followed John Shipton, the father of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, over a number of months as he campaigns to prevent his son from being extradited to the United States and secure his release from Britain’s Belmarsh maximum-security prison. Continue reading
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UK PPE Fiasco
On Monday evening, Good Law Project is hosting a live panel discussion on our cases to challenge the award of huge PPE contracts to a number of companies, seemingly without any advertising or competitive tender process. Continue reading
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ATOMIC BOMBINGS AT 75: The Illegality of Nuclear Weapons
The human race stands on the verge of nuclear self-extinction as a species, and with it will die most, if not all, forms of intelligent life on the planet earth. Any attempt to dispel the ideology of nuclearism and its attendant myth propounding the legality of nuclear weapons and nuclear deterrence must directly come to… Continue reading
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China & US Power
Can China do much to fight back against the power wielded by the US in the world economy? At first sight, that looks unlikely. China is big, but world trade is conducted in dollars, and the US has economic, political and military influence across the globe. The usual result of a tally of US might… Continue reading
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‘Worst case’ emissions scenario is best match for reality
The RCP 8.5 CO2 emissions pathway, long considered a “worst case scenario” by climate scientists, is the most appropriate for conducting assessments of climate change impacts by 2050, according to a paper published this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Continue reading
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Are Face Masks Effective? The Evidence
So far, most studies found little to no evidence for the effectiveness of cloth face masks in the general population, neither as personal protective equipment nor as a source control. Continue reading
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COVID-19: We have a Treatment: Hydroxychloroquine (HCQ). We do Not Need a Vaccine!
We have a treatment in COVID-19 and it doesn’t have the support of Big Pharma and their experts! Continue reading
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The Atomic Bomb and the End of World War II
Washington, D.C., August 4, 2020 – To mark the 75th anniversary of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945, the National Security Archive is updating and reposting one of its most popular e-books of the past 25 years. Continue reading