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“Nearly half of Twitter accounts pushing to reopen America may be bots. There has been a huge upswell of Twitter bot activity since the start of the coronavirus pandemic, amplifying medical disinformation and the push to reopen America.” MIT Technology Review, May 21, by Karen Hao * Kathleen M. Carley and her team at … Read more COVID-19 Update 13, May 29
Science for Peace is heartened by Public Safety Minister Bill Blair’s statement that Canada’s intelligence agencies will not “help track COVID-19’s spread within the country’s border”, thankfully indicating that our government will not allow intervention into this public health emergency by Canada’s intelligence agencies. The CSIS warning of “an increased risk of foreign interference and espionage”, however, suggests … Read more Covid-19 Research and Canada’s Intelligence Agencies
The Canadian Network to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (CNANW*) joins nations and civil society representatives around the world in condemning the Trump administration announcement on Thursday May 21st that it intends to withdraw from the Open Skies Treaty. Continue reading..Media Release re US Withdrawal from Open Skies Treaty – 22 May 2020 (et)
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Prime Minister of Poland, Mateusz Moraviecki Foreign Minister of Poland, Jacek Czaputowicz Defence Minister of Poland, Antoni Macierewicz Dear Prime Minister, Foreign Minister and Defence Minister of Poland, Dear Polish Parliamentarians to whom this letter is copied, First of all forgive me for writing in English. English is my native language, but I … Read more PEOPLE FOR NUCLEAR DISARMAMENT HUMAN SURVIVAL PROJECT: US – B-61 TACTICAL NUCLEAR WEAPONS IN POLAND
PEOPLE FOR NUCLEAR DISARMAMENT HUMAN SURVIVAL PROJECT US – B-61 TACTICAL NUCLEAR WEAPONS IN POLAND: – A REALLY REALLY BAD IDEA Prime Minister of Poland, Mateusz Moraviecki Foreign Minister of Poland, Jacek Czaputowicz Defence Minister of Poland, Antoni Macierewicz Dear Prime Minister, Foreign Minister and Defence Minister of Poland, Dear Polish Parliamentarians to … Read more PEOPLE FOR NUCLEAR DISARMAMENT HUMAN SURVIVAL PROJECT: US – B-61 TACTICAL NUCLEAR WEAPONS IN POLAND
From the UK’s University of Exeter, Professor Tim Lenton explains the climate niche where most of humanity lives. But that zone is shifting, and billions of humans will migrate away from uninhabitable countries, mostly northward toward the Poles – not centuries but mere decades from now. Dr. Radley Horton from Columbia University warns killer heat and humidity are already … Read more Lethal Heat Warning
Here are some thoughts as I look at some of the available information in pursuit of some usable understanding of the COVID-19-causing novel coronavirus SARS CoV-2, and what we can and must do about it. Open access to research has been a blessing and a curse, as preprints which have yet to be peer reviewed … Read more The Coronavirus Pandemic: Evidence from Virology and Immunology
By Sorpong Peou 2019 Peou on Smart sanctions & HS
By Sorpong Peou 2019 Peou on Human Security after 25 years