By George Friedman* – Geopolitical Futures Belarus, whose recent elections are making waves throughout the media, has been a pending flashpoint in Europe for some time. The reasons for this are history and geography. Since the 18th century, Russia’s national… Continue Reading
By Sonali Kolhatkar* – Independent Media Institute The fact that the president and his supporters want us to tolerate hundreds of thousands of preventable deaths from the pandemic reveals their true nature When President Donald Trump was challenged by Axios national political… Continue Reading
By Ayesha Sharma – The Guardian Voter disenfranchisement is an American tradition – we look at the historical roots of civil death Civil death is a form of punishment that extinguishes someone’s civil rights. It’s a concept that has been reshaped… Continue Reading
By Ishaan Tharoor, with Ruby Mellen* – The Washington Post A hundred years ago, French, British and Italian officials convened in a famous porcelain factory southwest of Paris to carve up the Ottoman Empire. The Treaty of Sèvres, signed Aug.… Continue Reading
The Economist Far better to spend far too much Consider the following thought experiment. If you fail to eat a pizza within an hour, you will die from hunger. What do you do? Most people would immediately order a pizza—and not… Continue Reading
By Eric Alterman* – The Nation The newspaper’s own reporters are challenging the Trumpian opinion section In 1981, Ben Bagdikian, a veteran journalist and former dean of the University of California, Berkeley, journalism school, tried to explain why The Wall… Continue Reading
By BBC News Facebook and Twitter have penalised Donald Trump and his campaign for posts in which the president claimed children were “almost immune” to coronavirus. Facebook deleted the post – a clip from an interview Mr Trump gave to… Continue Reading
Story by Ed Yong, Staff writer at The Atlantic A virus has brought the most powerful country in the world to its knees. How did it come to this? A virus a thousand times smaller than a dust mote has humbled… Continue Reading
By George Friedman*- Geopolitical Futures It’s been roughly five months since COVID-19 lockdown measures were first put in place. That means that come September, we will have gone two quarters like this with no end in sight. Masks and social… Continue Reading
The Latin American Reflection Roundtable (*) The Latin American Reflection Roundtable, echoing and in support of the statements of Latin American former Presidents, former Foreign Ministers and former Ministers of State, has convened a large and diverse group of personalities… Continue Reading
“GLOBAL SURVEY FINDS MOST PREFER EXPANDING GDP WITH HEALTH, EDUCATION, AND ENVIRONMENTAL DATA” The 2020 GlobeScan-Ethical Markets “Beyond GDP” survey repeats questions asked in 2007, 2009, and 2013 polls in Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, France, Germany, India, Kenya, Russia, the… Continue Reading
FROM AN OPEN SPACE TO A SPACE FOR ACTION Is the World Social Forum, which celebrates its 20th anniversary in 2021, just an open space or can it (should it) also be a space for action? This question has been discussed… Continue Reading
By David H. Freedman – Newsweek Jamaal Bowman, a progressive, scored an upset victory over incumbent Eliot Engel in New York’s 16th Congressional District. The primary took place on June 23rd, but the contest wasn’t officially decided until more than… Continue Reading
By Sonia Awale and Ramesh Kumar – The Nepali Times(*) KATHMANDU, Aug 3 2020 – The coronavirus pandemic was a respite for nature everywhere. The air was cleaner, trekking trails were pristine, the summit of Mt Everest was deserted, and… Continue Reading
By John Nichols*- The Nation Trump is losing. So he’s lying. The way to counter his lies is with facts and an action plan for easy, safe, and fair voting on November 3. On the morning of July 30, 96… Continue Reading
By Yanis Varoufakis* On 15th July, Ben Arc published in Bitcoin Magazine an open letter addressed to me in a bid to convince me that I should re-assess my rejection of Bitcoin as a force for good; as a bulwark… Continue Reading
By Marshall Auerback* – Independent Media Institute Another “landmark” agreement in reality makes incremental progress, but at a cost of ignoring a ticking time bomb in France. Samuel Beckett’s “Waiting for Godot” is a play featuring two characters waiting for… Continue Reading
Gaby Hinsliff* – The Guardian What if sticking more closely to home than usual is not a bug but a deliberate feature of life in Britain after coronavirus? We swam with seals in a cold, green sea, hiked to waterfalls… Continue Reading
By Glauco Benigni* The hierarchical and exploitative structure of the feudal era seems to have reappeared today on the Internet of the digital era. Regardless of any constitution and workers’ statute, neither politics nor trade unions are intervening. It is… Continue Reading
By Democracy Now! World-renowned political dissident Noam Chomsky , linguist and author, is a laureate professor in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Arizona and professor emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he taught for more… Continue Reading
