By David Walsh – Euronews The resignation of a scandal-embroiled politician is always going to make political waves and headline news. But what sets the case of Hungarian MEP József Szájer apart is not just the nature of the scandal he… Continue Reading
Editorial Clemency is a noble quality, but in Donald Trump’s hands it risks being a self-serving abuse of law and due process A US president’s power to pardon and commute sentences for federal offences seems to explode America’s claims as… Continue Reading
By Maria Ressa* (Brief intervention at the webinar “From Repression to Resistance: Combatting the Lawfare against Press Freedom,” Manila, Nov 21, 2020) On June 15, 2020, I sat in a decrepit, windowless courtroom and listened to Judge Rainelda Estacio-Montesa deliver… Continue Reading
By Tim Schwab* – The Nation Thanks to the Microsoft founder’s support, the IHME can make its own rules about how to track global health. That’s a problem. A perennial feature of the Covid-19 pandemic has been the guessing game… Continue Reading
Editorial The real issue is the Trump administration’s actions over the last four years, but the risks may be growing as it heads for the exit As any dramatist could tell you, when can be as important as what. The… Continue Reading
By Ellen Brown* – ScheerPost The Fed’s policy tools – interest rate manipulation, quantitative easing, and “Special Purpose Vehicles” – have all failed to revive local economies suffering from government-mandated shutdowns. . The Fed must rely on private banks to… Continue Reading
By Deutsche Welle (DW) The nationalist governments of Hungary, Poland and other EU members have lost a kindred spirit with Donald Trump’s defeat. Will they have to rethink their strategy? Will that make politics easier for the rest of the… Continue Reading
By Nadia Batok* – Wall Street International AI has gone from a science-fiction dream to a critical part of our everyday lives Artificial Intelligence has changed our world Success in creating effective AI, could be the biggest event in the… Continue Reading
By Riccardo Petrella* – Wall Street International The UN General Assembly has convened a Special Session on the Covid-19 pandemic at the level of Heads of State and Government on 3 and 4 December next. It took more than a… Continue Reading
OtherNews The use of Internet by the monopolist, like Facebook, Google, Twiter is becoming a threat to democracy and societies. I am giving two documents: One, some links from Prof, Rushkoff, to understand the danger which we face;and then a conference… Continue Reading
Al Jazeera Abiy rules out dialogue with TPLF during meeting with three AU envoys, a day after he announced ‘final phase’ of three-week conflict. Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has again ruled out dialogue with the leaders of the defiant… Continue Reading
By Diego Lopes da Silva* STOCKHOLM, Nov 27 2020 (IPS) – Autocracies are once again the global majority. The 2020 Democracy Report of the Varieties of Democracy Institute (V-DEM), ‘Autocratization surges, resistance grows’, raises the alarm that while the world… Continue Reading
By !!444!!! InsightHungary!!! (*) Prime Minister Viktor Orbán and Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki met in Budapest Thursday to discuss the European Union’s €1.8 trillion seven-year budget and coronavirus recovery package, which hit a roadblock after the two countries vetoed its adoption… Continue Reading
By Caitjan Gainty / Agnes Arnold-Forster (*) – The Conversation Following the good news from three separate COVID-19 vaccine trials, optimism that life might be “back to normal by spring” is running high. There are many reasons to temper this… Continue Reading
By Roberto Savio* The recent meeting of the G20 – scheduled to take place in Riyadh but held virtually due to the Coronavirus pandemic – has been an eloquent example of how the world is drifting, in a crisis of… Continue Reading
By Prof. Adam Tooze* With a slim majority in Congress, the president-elect lacks a solid base. The past teaches us what may happen President Trump’s efforts to overturn the outcome of the 3 November election, which appear to be over,… Continue Reading
By Simon Jenkins* – The Guardian The fact that the president cannot hold on to power shows the checks and balances are working Slowly, painfully, alarmingly, Donald Trump has been conceding the US presidency to Joe Biden. Over the weekend… Continue Reading
By Jomo Kwame Sundaram and Anis Chowdhury (*) KUALA LUMPUR and SYDNEY, Nov 24 2020 (IPS) – The World Bank has been leading other multilateral development banks (MDBs) and international financial institutions to press developing country governments to ‘de-risk’… Continue Reading
By Cornelia Meyer* As though dealing with a pandemic was not enough, there are more troubles ahead for the EU. The bifurcation was around Poland and Hungary vetoing the budget on account of making disbursement of funds conditional to the… Continue Reading
By Mikael Klintman * – The Conversation When was the last time you told a lie? If you can’t remember, I’ll give you a clue. Chances are it was sometime today – based on the fact research shows the average… Continue Reading
