By Raja Shehadeh – The Guardian Israel has twisted its laws and contorted its politics to protect the occupation. The UAE and Bahrain deals won’t create peace More than a quarter of a century after Yitzhak Rabin and Yasser Arafat… Continue Reading
!!444!!! InsightHungary!!! (*) David Cornstein announces resignation “It was with a deep sense of pride, as well as some sadness, that I informed President Trump and Foreign Minister Szijjártó that I will be stepping down as U.S. Ambassador to Hungary… Continue Reading
Walden Bello* In response to the cataclysm occasioned by the coronavirus, three lines of thinking are emerging, corresponding to three GTI scenarios: Market Forces, Policy Reform, and Great Transition. One line of thinking holds that, although the emergency necessitates extraordinary… Continue Reading
The National Security Archive – George Washington University Edited by Peter Kornbluh —————————- Nixon’s “Make the Economy Scream” Order issued 50 years ago Genesis of Nixon’s Infamous Regime Change Directive on Chile Recorded in Declassified Documentation Washington, D.C., September 15, 2020… Continue Reading
By Mary Robinson*, Exclusive to IPS DUBLIN, Sep 16 2020 (IPS) – The impacts of crises are never gender-neutral and COVID-19 is no exception. The pandemic has resulted in increased rates of violence against women and has exacerbated challenges in… Continue Reading
By Hazel Henderson* – Ethical Markets Media Revelations on the abject failure of the USA of the Trump administration, including the verbatim tapes of Robert Woodward‘s interviews in “RAGE” (2020), show the necessity for coordinated government policy, leadership and collective… Continue Reading
By Elizabeth Crisp* – Newsweek President Donald Trump continued to deny the impact of climate change as he traveled to California on Monday for an update on devastating wildfires that have spread along the West Coast. “It will start getting… Continue Reading
By Marie E. Berry, Milli Lake (*) – Boston Review Some gender equality initiatives help to reinforce exclusion rather than dismantle it. Much has been written about the benefits of electing women to office. Scholars note links between women’s political… Continue Reading
Editorial – The Observer The tragedy on Moria should shame Europe into action Scenes of devastation and desperation at the burnt-out refugee camp at Moria, on the Greek island of Lesbos, are powerful reminders that Europe’s migrant crisis never really… Continue Reading
By Kathryn Ledebur, Linda Farthing and Thomas Grisaffi (*) – The Conversation Bolivia has seen widespread public protests in recent months against the interim government, led by Jeanine Añez, which has twice postponed elections due to coronavirus. Her government has repeatedly violated… Continue Reading
*Jean Paul Fitoussi and Khalid Malik (*) -The opening sentence of the first UN global human development report in 1990 states ‘people are the real wealth of nations.´ While the sentiment remains profoundly true and the focus of every annual… Continue Reading
By Sonali Kolhatkar* – Independent Media Institute Under Trump, the collaboration of armed white supremacist Trump supporters and police is an explosive mix of violence aimed at communities of color. Police in America, whose mottos claim to “protect and serve”… Continue Reading
By Daniel Carpenter* – Boston Review U.S. democracy and the U.S. postal service share a long, entangled history. An attack against one signals an attack against the other In 2004 Muriel Ponder joined the U.S. Postal Service as a mechanic; she… Continue Reading
By AGORA OF THE INHABITANTS OF THE EARTH On Covid-19, Health and Global Public Goods Mr. Secretary General, The UN Economic and Social Council has alerted the international community to growing inequalities in health between the world’s populations, particularly when… Continue Reading
By Roy Morrison* – EcoCivilization In the midst of the covid-19 pandemic a new economic global market tool, Sustainability Credits (SCs), promises to help kick start both national and global renewable economic development. Globally, the sale of oil has dropped… Continue Reading
By Boaventura de Sousa Santos* Consult any modern written language dictionary and you will come away with the conclusion that the vernacular and the utopian are opposing concepts. While the vernacular (from the Latin word vernaculus) means that which is… Continue Reading
By George Friedman* In 2016, the British government called for a referendum on whether the United Kingdom should remain a member of the European Union. The British people voted to leave. Since then, there has been a struggle in Britain… Continue Reading
By Thalif Deen* UNITED NATIONS, Sep 7 2020 (IPS) – The COVID-19 pandemic has upended the lives of millions of people worldwide, accounted for over 869,000 deaths, destabilised the global economy and triggered a marked rise in poverty and hunger… Continue Reading
By Medea Benjamin and Leonardo Flores (*) Election season is a difficult time to develop good policies towards Latin America, since both Democrats and Republicans cater to the small, but organized, conservative factions of the Latinx community in Florida, vying… Continue Reading
By Giles Tremlett* – The Guardian During the 1970s and 80s, eight US-backed military dictatorships jointly plotted the cross-border kidnap, torture, rape and murder of hundreds of their political opponents. Now some of the perpetrators are finally facing justice The… Continue Reading
