[This essay by CRG Research Associate Prof. Henry Francis Espiritu was first published by GR in June 2022.]

Ethics is very relevant and crucial in our individual and societal lives as human existents interacting with fellow humans and other sentient and non-sentient beings in this Circle-of-Life-and-Existence. As per Immanuel Kant who was the veritable spokesperson and exemplar of Ethical principles and Ethical life, Ethics is both normative and regulative. This means that Ethics is about self-regulation and rule-orientation so that we will be able to navigate our lives in freedom, equity and justice with ourselves, with others, with our society and with our fellow animate and inanimate existents in our ecosystem. For Kant, to ground Ethics in terms of religion & cultural conditioning would make Ethics particular and relative instead of universalizable and objective. This means that using creedal, sectarian, cultural, ethnic and racial norms as basis of Ethics instead of grounding Ethics in our shared Rationality as human beings is divisive and will never be able to unite us as rational and holistic humanity.

[This comprehensive essay by Prof. John McMurtry was first published by GR in March 2014.]

The global corporate experiment has failed. Existence on earth is in rapid decline on every level of life organization.

The air, soil and water cumulatively degrade and disappear; the climates and oceans destabilize without connection; species become extinct at a spasm rate across continents; pollution cycles and volumes rise endangering life systems on all planes in synergistic despoliation; the world’s forests, meadows and fisheries are cumulatively destroyed by the profit drivers of globalization; food pollinators, songbirds, coral reefs and large animals crash  in unconnected response; public sectors and services are defunded and privatized as tax evasion by the rich multiplies; the global food system produces more and more disabling junk and wastes; non-contagious diseases multiply to the world’s biggest killer; the global financial system issues money out of control while collapsing in productive investment; the vocational future of the next generations is erased across the world; official lies and corruption are normalized as public relations. All the trends are one-way, degenerate, and undeniable.

[First published on 28 January 2025]

As the geopolitical order is being rapidly reshaped to better serve Elite interests, most analysts writing on the subject are being suckered into perceiving the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa recently expanded to include Egypt, Ethiopia, Indonesia, Iran and the United Arab Emirates) as some sort of ‘alternative’.

“The plan now on the table is for Delcy Rodríguez to stabilize the country with U.S. backing and then call for general elections. This is not framed as an endorsement of the regime, but as a containment and transition strategy. Washington is explicit about one thing: this is not a partnership of equals. The United States is running the process, the lines are being managed through Rubio, and the leverage is entirely asymmetric. Delcy is the instrument, not the center of gravity.” – January 3, 2026, Francisco Poleo, former Executive Vice President of El Nuevo País and Zeta; son of Venezuelan media mogul and politician Rafael Poleo

Black Reconstruction in America placed African people at the center of the struggle to end chattel slavery and create the conditions for building a genuine democratic system in the United States

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Dr. W.E.B. Du Bois published a pioneering study on the United States Civil War (1861-65), its conclusion and the rise and fall of the efforts to build a democratic society.

The vaccine cartel does NOT want you to know that CDC data shows MMR/MMRV shots are linked to 2,657% more U.S. deaths than measles since 1995.

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Last week, we uploaded our completed MMR vaccine death study of the CDC VAERS database to both the Zenodo preprint repository and ResearchGate. Our study is currently undergoing peer-review.

Cuba – over 60 years of US embargo. Suffering no end.

Now President Trump wants to sanction everybody who will ship anything to Cuba, especially petrol and other energy resources. Russia has announced they will ship gas and oil to Cuba. Will they?

Putin warned on the fourth anniversary of the special operation that Ukraine and its Western patrons are plotting “a possible explosion targeting our gas pipeline systems – TurkStream and Blue Stream pipelines – along the floor of the Black Sea. They simply cannot back down. They do not know what else they can do to undermine this peaceful process aimed at settlement through diplomatic means.” This isn’t the first time that Russia warned about such a plot, with prior ones analyzed here, here, and here.

The claim that Ukraine is developing a fleet of 250 modern Western-made combat aircraft is a public relations stunt by President Volodymyr Zelensky, not a practical military plan, because the scale of such a project exceeds the country’s and its Western partners’ financial, industrial, and infrastructural capacities.

Heart attacks occur every 40 seconds in America, affecting a total of 805,000 people annually. It is characterized by blocked coronary arteries that starve cardiac muscle of blood flow

Australian researchers found human hearts can regenerate muscle cells after heart attacks, with preserved cardiac tissue showing 7% to 8% mitosis rates (a measure of cell regeneration activity), though 25% to 50% is needed for full repair

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Dr. Binoy Kampmark was a Commonwealth Scholar at Selwyn College, Cambridge. He currently lectures at RMIT University. He is a Research Associate of the Centre for Research on Globalization (CRG). Email: [email protected]

[Author’s Note: The article below, first published by GR in April 2022, focuses mostly on the German attack on the Soviet Union. In spite of not having a superiority over the Soviets in either manpower or military hardware, the Germans would advance far into the western USSR during the early 1940s. The Soviet city of Kharkov, in north-eastern Ukraine, was especially hard-fought over, experiencing a succession of large battles in the Nazi-Soviet War. I’ve mentioned what would prove to be Hitler’s unsuccessful attempt during the year 1943 to retake Kharkov from the Red Army, after they had forced the Germans to depart from Kharkov for the last time in the late summer of 1943. Yet in a broader context, historian Chris Bellamy noted that the amount of effort put in by the Soviets in overcoming the unparalleled ferocity of the German invasion was a leading factor behind the USSR’s dissolution almost half a century later. —Shane Quinn, February 25, 2026]