By Kevin P. Gallagher and Jorge Heine (*) – The Hill Latin America has become the epicenter of the current global health, economic and social crises. The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), which has been the main source of development funding… Continue Reading
By !!444!!! InsightHungary!!! (*) Marking the 44th anniversary of the founding of the European People’s Party, three European leaders including Prime Minister Viktor Orbán took part in a video conference on Wednesday where they laid out their visions for the future of… Continue Reading
By Jomo Kwame Sundaram and Anis Chowdhury (*) SYDNEY and KUALA LUMPUR, Jul 2020 (IPS) – In his early February annual State of the Union address, US President Donald Trump typically hailed his own policies for increasing wages and jobs to… Continue Reading
By Makani Themba* – The Nation Jackson, Miss.—Before Covid-19, I would travel around the country, listening to people’s stories as we walked their block, or plotted the “beautiful next” in some center or meeting room. Now we are all in… Continue Reading
Prabir Purkayastha* – Independent Media Institute After his disastrous handling of the COVID-19 epidemic, Trump is trying to improve his waning electoral chances by reserving all of Gilead’s stock of remdesivir The U.S. has bought up almost all of the… Continue Reading
Paolo Lembo, Khalid Malik, Arsenio Rodriguez – WE THE PEOPLES Recently, at one of his daily addresses on Covid-19, the New York Governor Mario Cuomo posited that ‘government is essential to humanity’. Arguably, one can claim, so is global cooperation,… Continue Reading
The Economist –-The way we live now –The world is not experiencing a second wave: it never got over the first It is astonishing how rapidly the pandemic has spread, despite all the efforts to stop it. On February 1st, the… Continue Reading
Alex Vitale, Scott Casleton (*) – Boston Review In this interview, sociologist Alex Vitale explains how the policing crisis in the United States begins with politics—the decision to embrace neoliberal austerity and to turn the social problems it creates over… Continue Reading
By Alastair Crooke* – The Strategic Culture Foundation It was always a paradox: John Stuart Mill, in his seminal (1859), On Liberty, never doubted that a universal civilisation, grounded in liberal values, was the eventual destination of all of humankind. He… Continue Reading
By Samira Sadeque UNITED NATIONS, Jul 3 2020 (IPS) – An additional 5.6 million child marriages can be expected because of the coronavirus pandemic, which resulted in a short-term increase in poverty and the shutdown of schools. The current pandemic… Continue Reading
Editorial Benjamin Netanyahu’s plans will compound the suffering of Palestinians. International condemnation should be accompanied by consequences Annexation looks like the executioner of the two-state solution. Israel has changed the facts on the ground, with the rapid growth of settlements… Continue Reading
Opinion by Brad Parscale*, in The Washington Post “Bush’s Rating Falls To Its Lowest Point, New Survey Finds,” read a bold headline on the front page of the New York Times on June 29, 2004. The Times described a fraught atmosphere among the… Continue Reading
By Thalif Deen* UNITED NATIONS, Jul 1 2020 (IPS) – The ongoing battle between China and the United States is threatening to paralyze the most powerful body at the United Nations – the 15-member Security Council (UNSC)—which has virtually gone… Continue Reading
By Jason Murdock * – Newsweek The Facebook advertising boycott has expanded to include more big-brands this week, with carmaker Ford, clothing giant Adidas, tech firm HP and U.S. retailer Best Buy each temporarily pausing spending on the social network. While social… Continue Reading
Editorial Europe’s largest and most powerful nation can provide necessary leadership amid daunting challenges As Europe emerges from the worst of the coronavirus pandemic, it faces challenges on an epic scale. In Italy and Spain, the spectre of spiralling, unsustainable… Continue Reading
By Tyler Durden – Zero Hedge (*) Roughly half a million Chinese living in Hebei Province (not Hubei, Hebei), a province in northern China that surrounds Beijing (which operates as an independent ‘national city’) are under lockdown, but in an… Continue Reading
Analysis by Alessio Dell’Anna* & Alice Tidey -Euronews Poland’s outgoing president Andrzej Duda failed to win an outright majority in Sunday’s presidential election and is set to face Warsaw mayor Rafal Trzaskowski in a July 12 run-off. According to an… Continue Reading
By José Ignacio Torreblanca* – European Council on Foreign Relations From Putin to Trump, to Viktor Orban and Xi Jinping, several world leaders accuse the Hungarian magnate of wanting to bring them down. In Spain, his main enemy is Vox.… Continue Reading
by DEVNET JAPAN Project of SDGs realization on the 17 Sustainable Development Goals. No.5: GENDER EQUALITY, No.8: DECENT WORK AND ECONOMIC GROWTH DEVNET International (DEVNET), NGO of United Nations ECOSOC, aims for SDGs realization. In particular, Mr. Fumiyasu Akegawa, Chairman… Continue Reading
Amy Goodman – Democracy Now! (*) As coronavirus infections worldwide approach 10 million, nearly half can be found in the two largest countries in the Americas: the United States and Brazil, which now has the worst infection rate in the… Continue Reading
