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Month: July 2020

Trump Can’t Delay the Election—So He’s Trying to Make It a Chaotic Mess

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 →

Corruption, Democracy, Neo-liberalism, Populism, Radical extremism

Why Bitcoin Is Not a Socialist’s Ally – Reply to Ben Arc

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 →

Economy / Finance, Globalization

Every Step the EU Takes Toward Financial Unity Sows New Seeds of Its Potential Collapse

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 →

Economy / Finance, Globalization, Health, International Cooperation

Covid-19 is shrinking horizons for our holidays – perhaps for our lives too

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 →

Health, Science

A New Social Class: The Voluntary Workers of Social Networks

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 →

Digital Age, Economy / Finance, Information & Communication, Neo-liberalism

Whether He’ll Leave Office If He Loses

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 →

Democracy, Human Rights, Populism, Radical extremism

Fight Pandemic, Not Windmills of the Mind

By Jomo Kwame Sundaram and Anis Chowdhury  (*) SYDNEY and KUALA LUMPUR, Jul 28 2020 (IPS) – With uneven progress in containing contagion, worsened by the breakdown in multilateral cooperation due to mounting US-China tensions, recovery from the Covid-19 recessions… Continue Reading →

Civil Society, Economy / Finance, Health

Trump Calls Portland Protesters ‘Deranged Anarchists’ as They Sue His Admin

By  Chantal Da Silva* – Newsweek  President Donald Trump lashed out at protesters in Portland on Monday, branding them “sick and deranged Anarchists & Agitators” after they launched a lawsuit against his administration, accusing the Department of Homeland Security (DHS)… Continue Reading →

Civil rights, Human Rights, Politics, Racism, Violence

In Portland, Questions Swirl Around Local Police’s Coordination With Federal Officers

By Arun Gupta* –  The Intercept Portland City Commissioner Jo Ann Hardesty agrees with other elected officials in Oregon who say federal police dispatched to the city by President Donald Trump are an “occupying army,” represent “a blatant abuse of power,”… Continue Reading →

militarization, Politics, Radical extremism, Violence

Will Anti-Semitism Undermine the Black Lives Matter Movement?

By Khaleda Rahman – Newsweek Black and Jewish activists say charges of anti-Semitism are being used to undermine the Black Lives Matter movement. Concerns about anti-Semitism in the Black community have been fueled by recent comments from Black celebrities, including… Continue Reading →

Civil rights, History, Inequality and Social Justice, Racism

DEVNET INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATES IN CAPACITY BUILDING PROGRAMME

by DEVNET JAPAN Devnet International is collaborating with private sector, other non-governmental organizations, and the Japanese Government in ensuring that the implementation of Japan’s Technical Intern Training Programme (TITP) fully incorporates the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights… Continue Reading →

English

The Great Migration Clash

By Joseph Chamie* NEW YORK, Jul  2020 (IPS) – The world is in the midst of the Great Migration Clash, a bitter struggle between those who “want out” of their countries and those who want others to “keep out” of… Continue Reading →

Human Rights, Immigration and Refugees, xenofobia

The covid-19 pandemic is forcing a rethink in macroeconomics

The Economist It is not yet clear where it will lead In the form it is known today, macroeconomics began in 1936 with the publication of John Maynard Keynes’s “The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money”. Its subsequent history can… Continue Reading →

Economy / Finance, Health

Trump’s occupation of American cities has begun

Michelle Goldberg’s opinion  – The New York Times The month after Donald Trump’s inauguration, Yale historian Timothy Snyder published the bestselling book “On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons From the Twentieth Century.” It was part of a small flood of titles meant… Continue Reading →

Human Rights, militarization, Populism, Radical extremism, Violence

Time Is Not on Our Side in Libya

By Vijay Prashad* – Independent Media Institute Ahmed, who lives in Tripoli, Libya, texts me that the city is quieter than before. The army of General Khalifa Haftar—who controls large parts of eastern Libya—has withdrawn from the southern part of the… Continue Reading →

Armed conflicts, Corruption, Economy / Finance, Immigration and Refugees, militarization, Radical extremism, Violence

When ‘Law and Order’ Means Maximum Chaos

By Sasha Abramsky* – The Nation As federal agents brutalize protesters in Portland, Trump threatens to unleash the same tactics across the country The election is barely 100 days away, and the Signal is that Trump—trailing Biden by large margins… Continue Reading →

Civil rights, Human Rights, Radical extremism, Violence

The Queen Elizabeth and the Prince of Wales

By George Friedman* – Geopolitical Futures The British recently finished building two new aircraft carriers, the Queen Elizabeth and the Prince of Wales. Last week, Britain announced that one of the carriers would be based in the Pacific. Obviously, the… Continue Reading →

Armed conflicts, History, Neo-liberalism, Populism

OtherNews-TheAnalysis partnership

Brand new partnership leads to podcast series on global issues. Last week’s first episode of a podcast series co-produced by Othernews and  TheAnalisys.News was a blast! Othernews officially started a partnership with TheAnalisys.News, a US/Canadian online magazine that aims “to carry on the… Continue Reading →

Development, Information & Communication

While EU leaders squabble, the Elephant in the Room remains unnoticed

By Yanis Varoufakis* While the media are reporting the news of the deadlocked EU Summit negotiations over the so-called ‘Recovery Fund’, an eerie silence prevails regarding the Elephant in the Room: The huge wave of austerity the Eurozone is sleepwalking… Continue Reading →

Economy / Finance, Health, Inequality and Social Justice, Neo-liberalism, Politics

Jared Kushner Gets Candid About Struggling Trump Campaign, Mideast Peace, More

By Bill Powell – Newsweek Why would somebody 37 years old, with no diplomatic experience, take on the job of making peace in the Mideast? “My father-in-law asked me to do it,” Jared Kushner says. Never mind that Henry Kissinger, James Baker… Continue Reading →

Human Rights, Immigration and Refugees, militarization, Politics, Populism, Radical extremism, Violence

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