Jeffrey D. Sachs* – Project SyndicateAs a powerful complement to the United Nations, the G20 has acquitted itself well by representing most of the world’s population and economic output with a limited membership. By expanding to include the African Union, it would overcome its biggest limitation without any loss of agility.NEW...

By  Anis Chowdhury and Jomo Kwame Sundaram (*) SYDNEY and KUALA LUMPUR, Aug  2021 (IPS) – Hopes for an inclusive global economic recovery are fast fading. As rich countries have done little to ensure poor countries’ access to vaccines and fiscal resources, North-South “fault lines” will certainly widen. Enhancing relief,...

Editorial- The Guardian The increasingly draconian approach to irregular migration betrays the spirit of the 1951 refugee convention Seventy years ago, the 1951 UN refugee convention established the rights of refugees to seek sanctuary, and the obligations of states to protect them. Increasingly, it seems that much of Europe is...

By Justin Podur* –  Globetrotter, Independent Media Institute  After mass graves full of Indigenous children have been found, how can Canada justify ongoing land theft? Canada is developing a new image: one of burning churches, toppling statues, and mass graves. There are thousands more unmarked graves, thousands more Indigenous children killed at residential...

B James W. Carden* – Independent Media Institute “If there were a moral to be drawn from the Crimean War which might apply to the present it would be this: in a war between Russia and the West, it is the powers which keep out who will be the the...