The runaway fire of inflation
Weapons manufacture means that investment is being turned away from socially beneficial goods toward death and destruction.
News Digest
Critical Mass brings you some of the important and often overlooked recent events and considers the impact of the 1832 Reform Act.
Is there hope for Yemen?
The war in Yemen, “the forgotten war”, has almost never been news. The desperate suffering of the people in Yemen, the brutality of the Saudi Arabian airstrikes and the complicity…
Stop the War in Yemen
Peace talks aiming to stop the war in Yemen are planned between 29th March and 7th April. The war, which began in 2014 when Houthi rebels ousted the government, is…
Yemenis die, Saudi Arabia holds arms fair
While Russia invaded Ukraine, Saudi Arabia was once again carrying out airstrikes on Yemen, one of the poorest and most war-torn countries on Earth. Saudi Arabia, leading a coalition of…
Film review: The Perfect Candidate
A WOMAN in Saudi Arabia cannot travel without permission from her male guardian. That is the lived reality for women in a state in which patriarchy is not just something…
Yemen – The Forgotten War
Not long ago I shared someone’s post on Twitter about the untold suffering in Yemen showing a picture of a starving child. I asked why we seem to turn our…
The Noble Game and the Nobel Prize
The noble game could learn from the Nobel Prize about the real nobility of courage in the defence of truth and justice. The Noble Game For the noble game of…