Green Planet Monitor

05/01/2025

https://www.greenplanetmonitor.net/human-civil-rights/children/obscure-commitee/ On the margins of the 23rd session of State Parties to the Rome Statute of the International Court, in The Hague, a stairway conversation about international law, and its fate, with South African Ambassador to the Kingdom of the Netherlands, Vusi Madonsela. And, the obscure UN committee charged with eliminating "all forms of racial discrimination" labours for five years on scrupulously detailed apartheid charges by Palestine against Israel, and comes up with ... no comment. The GPM speaks with Irish legal scholar and CERD committee commentator David Keane.

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22/12/2024

https://www.greenplanetmonitor.net/conflict/no-reason-to-cheer/

A conversation about the downfall of Bashar al-Assad with Columbia University professor Jeffrey Sachs, and about the global nuclear menace with Columbia chemist and nuclear arms analyst Ivana Nikolic Hughes

11/12/2024

https://www.greenplanetmonitor.net/podcast/crime-accountability-punishment/

Voices & stories from the 23rd session of the Assembly of State Parties to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, in The Hague.

01/12/2024

https://www.greenplanetmonitor.net/conflict-and-environment/nuking-paradise/

Eighty years after the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the real reasons for America’s hideous assault have been unearthed by a small army of scholars. Among these – a guy named Glenn Alcalay, Associate Professor of Anthropology at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, at City University of Ne...

10/11/2024

https://www.greenplanetmonitor.net/podcast/justice-the-taxman/

Canadian rights groups call on the Canada Revenue Agency to suspend the charitable status of Canadian organizations funding Israel's unlawful occupation and colonization of Palestinian territories, and to carry out audits and criminal investigations of their activities.

10/11/2024

In a report released this past Friday, in Toronto, Canadian rights groups Just Peace Advocates/Mouvement Pour Une Paix Juste and Independent Jewish Voices Canada document millions of dollars in charitable donations funneled by ostensibly charitable Canadian groups to a handful of Israeli organizations engaged in colonizing the West Bank, and soldier-settler violence against Palestinians. The two groups are calling on the Canadian government to suspend the charitable status of these organizations, and to carry out audits and criminal investigations of their activities.

Canadian rights groups call on the Canada Revenue Agency to suspend the charitable status of Canadian organizations funding Israel's unlawful occupation and colonization of Palestinian territories, and to carry out audits and criminal investigations of their activities.

01/11/2024

Scholasticide: bombing schools, libraries and cultural centers. Killing students and teachers. Sound like genocide? It is. The GPM speaks about Israeli scholasticide in Gaza with the UN Special Rapporteur on the right to education, and with a Palestinian academic doing top-drawer scientific research in the West Bank, against all odds. And, we play back voices at the International Court of Justice, in The Hague, talking about Israel's attempt to pulverize the foundation of Palestinian society, its learning institutions and its children.

Scholasticide: bombing schools, libraries and cultural centers. Killing students and teachers. Sound like genocide? It is. The GPM speaks about Israeli scholasticide in Gaza with the UN Special Rapporteur on the right to education, and with a Palestinian academic doing top-drawer scientific research...

29/09/2024

Fermented foods -- very nutritious, very magic. The GPM speaks with a microbe magician. Taking stock of biological diversity, using DNA barcodes. The GPM speaks with several DNA barcoders. And, a frightening vision of a warming planet: Hothouse Earth. A conversation with Earth systems pioneer, Will Steffen.

Fermented foods -- very nutritious, very magic. The GPM speaks with a microbe magician. Taking stock of biological diversity, using DNA barcodes. The GPM speaks with several DNA barcoders. And, a frightening vision of a warming planet: Hothouse Earth. A conversation with Earth systems pioneer, Will....

21/09/2024

Israel wants to eradicate the Palestinian people, and the UN agency that supports them. The GPM speaks with Chris Gunness about Israel's persecution of UNRWA -- the UN Relief & Works Agency. And, a Canadian Jewish group declares itself anti-Zionist. The GPM speaks with Sid Shniad, founding member of Independent Jewish Voices Canada.

Israel wants to eradicate the Palestinian people, and the UN agency that supports them. The GPM speaks with Chris Gunness about Israel's persecution of UNRWA -- the UN Relief & Works Agency. And, a Canadian Jewish group declares itself anti-Zionist. The GPM speaks with Sid Shniad, founding member of...

14/09/2024

Powerful new antibiotics discovered using artificial intelligence. Sitting in a restaurant, staring at a piece of fish. Is it really that expensive kind? Pull out your DNA barcode reader, and find out. And, s*x and the brain; women’s and men’s are wired differently; men’s brains are s*xualized before they’re born.

Powerful new antibiotics discovered using artificial intelligence. Sitting in a restaurant, staring at a piece of fish. Is it really that expensive kind? Pull out your DNA barcode reader, and find out. And, s*x and the brain; women’s and men’s are wired differently; men’s brains are s*xualized...

07/09/2024

Tapping Earth’s largest source of clean energy -- its oceans. Ocean waves, tides and heat. A massive resource. Then, there’s salt gradient energy. Wherever fresh river water flows into salty seas, electricity can be generated, with zero carbon emissions.

01/09/2024

A conversation about Palestine-Israel with Dutch-Palestinian commentator Mouin Rabbani. The GPM met up with Rabbani in The Hague for an extended discussion about Israel's genocidal war on Gaza, the Palestinian people's depleted, divided and leaderless 'national liberation movement', the much-touted 'Axis of Resistance', and about what the future holds – for the Palestinian people, Israel and the wider Middle East.

A conversation about Palestine-Israel with Dutch-Palestinian commentator Mouin Rabbani. The GPM met up with Rabbani in The Hague for an extended discussion about Israel's genocidal war on Gaza, the Palestinian people's depleted, divided and leaderless 'national liberation movement', the much-touted....