The proxy war in Ukraine is heading to a denouement with the US and Russia dividing the spoils while the European powers stand bewildered by events they have been wilfully blind to, says KEVIN OVENDEN
Collapsing male fertility: not enough seed to spill?
Is the future of the human race in danger from lack of sperm? PETER FROST reads a worrying new report
One can only imagine what would happen if 2.2 million Palestinian refugees were pushed into Jordan, Egypt and other Arab countries, per Trump’s proposal, writes RAMZY BAROUD
This is the most anti-migrant government in decades, argues RAVISHAAN RAHEL MUTHIAH
VICTOR GROSSMAN reports, with a little chuckle, on how US readiness to work with Russia, not just on peace for Ukraine, has thrown a spanner into the German electoral machine
SOLOMON HUGHES probes the finances of a phoney ‘charity’ pushing the free schools and academies agenda
Freedom now for former PM Mir-Hossein Mousavi and other political prisoners
VIJAY PRASHAD examines why in 2018 Washington started to take an increasingly belligerent stance towards ‘near peer rivals’ – Russa and China – with far-reaching geopolitical effects
IS it men who are to be the harbingers of the end of humanity as we know it? Before any readers hurry to email me saying I should have started that question “is it women and men who...” sorry you are premature (a word for reasons that will become clear I shall try to avoid in the rest of this article).
It is men only who are causing a potential disaster for the whole of the human species, although women and particularly babies — some as yet unborn — are certainly going to suffer too.
Quite simply, all across the world human male testicular equipment is falling down on the job and failing to produce enough live, fast swimming, go-for-it-lad sperm.
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