By Mark Blyth* – The Guardian Finance ministers finally seem willing to crack down on avoidance. But the rich may just slip through the loopholes Back in the 1980s there was a New York hotelier named Leona Helmsley. What made… Continue Reading
By Simone Galimberti* The international community commemorates World Day Against Child Labour on June 12 KATHMANDU, Nepal, Jun 11 2021 (IPS) – Among the many daunting issues leaders of the G7 will have to discuss in their upcoming summit in… Continue Reading
By Al Jazeera UN says people fleeing military’s ‘brutal, indiscriminate attacks’ in eastern Kayah are in dire need of food and water. A United Nations rights expert has warned of “mass deaths from starvation, disease and exposure” in eastern Myanmar… Continue Reading
By Amy Goodman* – Democracy Now! Amy Goodman interviews Jeffrey Sachs and Fatima Hassan, Part two Context and interview to Jeffrey Sachs, Director of the Center for Sustainable Development at Columbia University and president of the U.N. Sustainable Development Solutions… Continue Reading
By Kenny Stancil* – Common Dreams In an opinion piece, the Washington Post‘s publisher on Sunday accused President Joe Biden’s Justice Department of exacerbating the Trump administration’s assault on press freedom and called for a “full accounting” of the Biden DOJ’s recent… Continue Reading
By Amy Goodman* – Democracy Now! Amy Goodman interviews Jeffrey Sachs and Fatima Hassan, Part One Context and interview to Jeffrey Sachs, Director of the Center for Sustainable Development at Columbia University and president of the U.N. Sustainable Development Solutions… Continue Reading
By Rafael Behr* – The Guardian The US risks being superseded by China as the prime global power within decades. For Washington, the idea is appalling Joe Biden crosses the Atlantic this week on a tide of goodwill. After four… Continue Reading
By Anis Chowdhury and Jomo Kwame Sundaram (*) SYDNEY and KUALA LUMPUR, Jun 8 2021 (IPS) – With the pandemic setting back past, modest and uneven progress, huge disparities in containing COVID-19 and financing government efforts are widening the North-South… Continue Reading
by Nicolas J. S. Davies* A recent Yahoo News/YouGov poll found that worries about the COVID pandemic in the United States are at their lowest level since it began. Only half of Americans are either “very worried” (15%) or “somewhat… Continue Reading
By Hazel Henderson* – Wall Street International Magazine Revealed as driving positive human evolution! In Time to Dethrone Economics, I tracked the growing wake-up from the delusions of money-measured GDP growth and all the price-denominated, over-aggregated macroeconomic statistics that dominate our… Continue Reading
Editorial The ousting of Benjamin Netanyahu, if it occurs, will be an opportunity. But Naftali Bennett’s government will struggle to build the new politics the nation badly needs There were 38 minutes left when eight very disparate Israeli opposition parties… Continue Reading
By ReliefWeb* Download document (PDF | 785.39 KB) Summary The recent violent end of the ceasefire in Western Sahara means the EU and the UN should pay renewed attention to resolving the longstanding conflict between the native Sahrawis and Morocco.… Continue Reading
By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan(*) – Democracy Now! You know the United States is emerging from the COVID-19 pandemic when the pace of mass shootings gets back to “normal.” As of June 2nd, there were 244 mass shootings in… Continue Reading
By Anthony Idowu Ajayi * – The Conversation The number of girls who marry before their 15th birthday has remained unchanged for 20 years in most countries in sub-Saharan Africa. The region has the highest rate of child marriage, with… Continue Reading
By Dahlia Scheindlin* – The Guardian A government led by Naftali Bennett would not be progressive, but political paralysis has only deepened the occupation As Israel inches closer to ending two years of political stalemate and 12 consecutive years of… Continue Reading
By Mikhal Dekel* – Boston Review Not all research is at stake, however, only work that reveals the role of ethnic Poles in the persecution of Poland’s Jews. By This year, for the first time in history, an individual used… Continue Reading
By Journalists from The Guardian* Dozens of grassroots people’s defence forces have emerged to take on brutal military Myanmar is on the verge of a new civil war, a spokesperson for the country’s parallel government has warned, as communities increasingly… Continue Reading
By George Friedman* – Geopolitical Futures Russia and the European Union held a conference last week, during which Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said in a speech: “The situation remains rather alarming. Our common European continent is experiencing an unprecedented… Continue Reading
Editorial The rise to prominence of the Brothers of Italy party and its abrasive leader, Giorgia Meloni, is a disturbing development By the turbulent standards of Italian politics, it has been a relatively stable spring. The country’s new technocrat prime… Continue Reading
By Sonali Kolhatkar* – Independent Media Institute Native American communities living alongside the route of the Line 3 pipeline project in northern Minnesota are asking all activists to join them in solidarity this June A decades-old pipeline called Line 3,… Continue Reading
