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War crimes in Syria fueled by Danish company
How much jet fuel does it take to win a war? There is probably no precise answer to that, but it looks like a Danish bunkering* company has enabled the provision of a pivotal amount of it to the regime in Syria. So far, the Danish company DanBunkering, a subsidiary, and a CEO have been …
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Ecocide: Why killing nature should be a crime
The 6th mass extinction is upon us. It’s a man-made biodiversity crisis fueled by climate change and mass-scale exploitative destruction of nature. We all play a part, but while more and more of us try to alter our habits, eat less meat, fly less, use public transportation, sort our garbage, cut out single-use plastic, and …
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A murderless* genocide in China?
What does genocide look like? Do gas chambers, machetes, and mass graves come to mind? Images of piles of mutilated bodies? I haven’t conducted a survey, but I’ll take a bet and say that most of us think of genocide as the intentional, large-scale murder of entire groups of people. But murder is just one …
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