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Month: February 2020

Migrants aren’t spreading coronavirus – but nationalists are blaming them anyway

By Daniel Trilling* – The Guardian Politicians across Europe have been quick to exploit the outbreak by heaping suspicion on the most marginalised When I give talks on Europe’s “refugee crisis” I often start by showing a photograph of a… Continue Reading →

Health, Human Rights, Populism, Racism, Violence

Indigenous Rights Are Trudeau’s Last Priority

By Robert Jago* – The Nation When pipeline protesters shut down Canada’s railways, the prime minister stopped pretending to care about reconciliation. As we speak, Canadian paramilitary and police forces are occupying parts of the sovereign territories of the indigenous… Continue Reading →

Economy / Finance, Environment, Human Rights, Neo-liberalism, Racism, Violence

Britain’s imperial prime minister

The Economist Boris Johnson is busy accumulating power in Number 10 The emperor Nero was reportedly in the habit of dipping dissidents in tar and using them to light his dinner parties. Boris Johnson has not so far shown an inclination… Continue Reading →

Democracy, Economy / Finance, History, Inequality and Social Justice, Politics, Populism

Witnessing the Hell That a Migrant Can Face

By  Vijay Prashad*  – Independent Media Institute At Obock, Djibouti, 2,000 migrants gather each day along the waters of the Gulf of Aden; they look for boats to get them to Yemen. Over the past two years, more migrants from Africa… Continue Reading →

Human Rights, Immigration and Refugees, Neo-liberalism, Racism, Violence

Anti-Muslim violence in Delhi serves Modi well

By Mukul Kesavan* – The Guardian The riots have been driven by a ruling party intent on painting its largely peaceful opponents as seditious sectarians Since Sunday violent mobs in north-east Delhi have killed 21 people including a police constable,… Continue Reading →

Civil rights, Human Rights, Immigration and Refugees, Neo-liberalism, Populism, Racism, Religion, Violence

Lucky Trump Looking Smug

By Anis Chowdhury and Jomo Kwame Sundaram* SYDNEY and KUALA LUMPUR, Feb  2020 (IPS) – Meeting the President of the Republic of Korea in September 2019, President Donald J Trump bragged that the “US economy is the envy of the… Continue Reading →

Economy / Finance, Globalization, Inequality and Social Justice, Neo-liberalism

For Trump and Modi, ethnic purity is the purpose of power

By Jason Stanley* – The Guardian The two strongmen favour immigration and citizenship policies designed to demonise minority groups The US president, Donald Trump, has delighted a stadium of 125,000 cheering Indians in Gujarat by declaring: “America loves India. America… Continue Reading →

Human Rights, Immigration and Refugees, Neo-liberalism, Politics, Populism, Racism, Religion, Violence

Shock therapy

The Economist Covid-19 presents economic policymakers with a new sort of threat It mixes demand and supply effects The only thing we have to fear is fear itself, or so reckoned Franklin Roosevelt. In many an economic downturn that is true—an… Continue Reading →

Commerce, Economy / Finance, Health, Turism

Sanders & Socialism: Debate Between Nobel Laureate Paul Krugman & Socialist Economist Richard Wolff

By AMY GOODMAN – Democracy Now! As Bernie Sanders’s runaway win in Nevada cements his position as the front-runner for the Democratic nomination, the Democratic Party establishment and much of the mainstream media are openly expressing concern about a self-described… Continue Reading →

Civil rights, Democracy, Elections, Politics

The Tyranny of the Minority, from Iowa Caucus to Electoral College

By  Corey Robin* – New York Review of Books It has been more than two weeks since the Iowa caucuses, and we still don’t know who won. That should give us pause. We don’t know in part because of a… Continue Reading →

Books, Democracy, Elections, History

UN Accused of “Hypocrisy” Launching Equal Pay Day While Condoning Wage Discrimination

By Thalif Deen*               UNITED NATIONS, Feb 21 2020 (IPS) – The United Nations, which has long preached the irrefutable concept of income equality to the outside world, is now accused of condoning wage discrimination in its own backyard. The message… Continue Reading →

Civil rights, Economy / Finance, Inequality and Social Justice

For Whom the Markets Toll

Reed Hundt* – Boston Review Ben Bernanke, Timothy Geithner, and Henry Paulson still have not reckoned with the failures of neoliberal planning in the wake of the financial crisis More than a decade after the financial crises of 2008, the… Continue Reading →

Economy / Finance, Globalization, Neo-liberalism

The Guardian view on a new immigration policy: make it more than tabloid fodder

Editorial Boris Johnson saw immigration as the driver of Brexit, and has produced a policy that taps into questions about the nature of work The government’s proposed immigration reforms represent perhaps the biggest change to British life since the Maastricht… Continue Reading →

Human Rights, Immigration and Refugees, Neo-liberalism, Populism

The EU wants to set the rules for the world of technology

The Economist After data protection, artificial intelligence, competition and more. The Brussels effect, cont BERLIN AND SAN FRANCISCO – MARK ZUCKERBERG might not have liked everything he heard, but Facebook’s boss got the timing right for a recent visit to… Continue Reading →

Commerce, Digital Age, Economy / Finance, Information & Communication

The American Cowboy – Iranian Mullah Showdown

By Hall Gardner* –  Wall Street International Magazine Countdown to World War Trump IV I. Now that he possesses only a small kitchen cabinet full of “yes men” to advise him, it should not have been surprising that President Trump… Continue Reading →

Intelligence, Neo-liberalism, Politics, Violence

How Nigeria’s Police used Telecom Surveillance to Lure & Arrest Journalists

By Jonathan Rozen*      NEW YORK, Feb 19 2020 (IPS) – As reporters for Nigeria’s Premium Times newspaper, Samuel Ogundipe and Azeezat Adedigba told CPJ they spoke often over the phone. They had no idea that their regular conversations about work… Continue Reading →

Civil rights, Human Rights, Information & Communication

Trump Is Unleashing Militarized Goon Squads Against Immigrants in Sanctuary Cities

By Sasha Abramsky* – The Nation First, they came for the immigrants… By the time you read this column, elite US Border Patrol Tactical (BORTAC) units might be battering down the doors of immigrant families in sanctuary cities in California,… Continue Reading →

Human Rights, Immigration and Refugees, militarization, Violence

Global Economy Still Slowing, Dangerously Vulnerable

By Anis Chowdhury and Jomo Kwame Sundaram (*)   SYDNEY and KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 18 2020 (IPS) – In an annual ritual early in the year, most major economic organizations have released forecasts for the global economy in 2020. Incredibly,… Continue Reading →

Commerce, Economy / Finance, Globalization, Neo-liberalism

Stephen Miller Brought White Supremacy Into Our Immigration Policy

By Debbie Wasserman Schultz and Sheila Katz (*) – Newsweek  Senate Must Hold Him Accountable History tells us that we cannot ignore the insidious cruelty of white supremacist ideology. It grows from whispers to proud proclamations, then is distilled into… Continue Reading →

Human Rights, Immigration and Refugees, Racism, Violence

A Multi-Billion Dollar US Mideast Arms Market May be in Jeopardy

By Thalif Deen* UNITED NATIONS, Feb 17 2020 (IPS) – When President Saddam Hussein ran one of the world’s most authoritarian regimes in the militarily-volatile Middle East during 1979-2003, US newspapers routinely described him as “the strongman of Iraq” —… Continue Reading →

Commerce, Economy / Finance, Intelligence, militarization, Politics

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