WAR in the 21st Century: Mercenaries, Private Military Companies, Private Armies
In 2022, 407 billion US dollars of the Pentagon budget – representing half of that year’s funding – were obligated to private contractors of which a significant number were Private Military Companies (PMCs) involved in combat operations. According to the Congressional Research Service, the forever wars generated by...
The Panama Papers: Rogue Capitalism Robbing Your Wallet
On April 03, 2016, the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists [ICIJ] started publishing almost twelve million files of leaked documents revealing the details of tax havens sheltering more than one trillion dollars from legitimate governing taxing authorities. On April 05, 2016, Sigmundur Davíð...
67th Session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women
This year the 67th session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women has as its special focus the digital world and how it is affecting women. We all are aware that the internet has had a tremendous impact, both positively and negatively. In PEN the internet permits us to reach new people and to work much...
On A Scale of 1 to 10 : Sex, Religion, Power, Politics a Public Meditation
QUESTION: “On a scale of one to 10, how faithful would you say you are, in terms of religion?” US Senator Lindsey Graham (R), South Carolina. RESPONSE: “… there’s no religious test in the Constitution under Article VI.” Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, nominee, US Supreme Court . QUESTION: “Can you provide a definition...
Two Reports on 66th Session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women
66th Session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women, March 2022
When the 66th Session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) started, I could still not tell what was actually going to happen. They said the meetings would be “hybrid.” I had received a message that there would be no temporary passes for the CSW and the contradictory information that I could pick up my...
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