Alex Vitale, Scott Casleton (*) – Boston Review In this interview, sociologist Alex Vitale explains how the policing crisis in the United States begins with politics—the decision to embrace neoliberal austerity and to turn the social problems it creates over… Continue Reading
ECPD GLOBAL CRISES WITH IMPACTS FOR GENERATIONS: IT’S TIME FOR URGENT MULTILATERAL ACTION (1) (Belgrade City Hall, 23 October 2020) VIII ECPD Global Youth Forum YOUTH POWER FOR THE COMMON FUTURE With the main topic ACTING ON THE EARTH CHARTER… Continue Reading
By Wesley Lowery * – Newsweek HOUSTON — Congressman Al Green fidgeted in the front row of George “Perry” Floyd’s third and final memorial service, held here in the city where the slain man had spent much of his life, as he… Continue Reading
By Katherine Fung – Newsweek Protesters in Portland, Oregon, locked police inside their own precinct building early Wednesday morning, using the rope from a flagpole located outside the police station. A little after 11 p.m. on Tuesday, a small group… Continue Reading
By Amy Goodman – Democracy Now! (*) Guests : Angela Davis world-renowned abolitionist, author, activist and professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz. The uprising against police brutality and anti-Black racism continues to sweep across the United States and… Continue Reading
By Ben Smith* – The New York Times Staff members’ demands helped end the tenure of James Bennet as Opinion editor of The New York Times. And they are generating tension at The Washington Post. Part of the story starts… Continue Reading
By Amy Goodman – Democracy Now! (*) Guests : Nekima Levy Armstrong, civil rights attorney, activist, founder of the Racial Justice Network and former president of the Minneapolis chapter of the NAACP. After more than a week of nationwide protests,… Continue Reading
By Vijay Prashad* – Independent Media Institute There is no need to wonder why George Floyd (age 46) was murdered in broad daylight in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on May 25, 2020. The script of his death is written deep in the… Continue Reading
By Hall Gardner* – The National Interest China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea, have hoped to counter U.S. military pressures and economic sanctions in an effort to overstretch U.S. political-military and financial capabilities across the world through both symmetrical and… Continue Reading
Dr.Riccardo Petrella* Making free the world from the three empires of which the United States is the symbol and the most accomplished reality. Today’s societies are experiencing a phase of crumbling values and rules in all fields, dominated by warrior… Continue Reading
By Benjamin Wallace-Wells* – The New Yorker I lived in Baltimore during the Freddie Gray protests in April, 2015. My apartment was in a brownstone next to a small park in a pretty neighborhood called Bolton Hill, which sits on… Continue Reading
By Gregg Gonsalves* – The Nation Just because President Trump will do nothing doesn’t mean we won’t keep asking What’s going on in the United States? Across the country, all states have begun to reopen, some more quickly, some more… Continue Reading
By Democracy Now! Guests : Michael Baker, professor of public health at the University of Otago in Wellington, New Zealand. He is an epidemiologist and a member of the New Zealand Ministry of Health’s Technical Advisory Group. New Zealand implemented… Continue Reading
By Sonali Kolhatkar* – Independent Media Institute The protests are a form of white privilege in action as the virus disproportionately infects and kills African Americans and people of color. When the coronavirus pandemic was first declared, Americans dutifully stayed… Continue Reading
Fritjof Capra and Hazel Henderson (*) – ETHICAL MARKETS MEDIA Imagine, it is the year 2050 and we are looking back to the origin and evolution of the coronavirus pandemic over the last three decades. Extrapolating from recent events, we… Continue Reading
Hannah Friedman* -Newsweek Americans Want the Right to Be Safe Across the country, we’ve been bombarded with pictures and videos of extremists storming state capitols, cradling guns and badgering the rest of us about their idea of “freedom.” They claim… Continue Reading
K.P. Kannan* These are not normal times for any country in this world. In one swoop Covid-19 virus has proved how fast it can globalize and integrate all countries and people, but in a disastrous way. While the western countries… Continue Reading
Justin Spike – insighthungary 444 In the first weeks of March, as it became increasingly clear that Hungary would not be spared from the alarmingly rapid spread of the coronavirus pandemic, the Hungarian government under Viktor Orbán remained indecisive. Buoyed… Continue Reading
By Hazel Henderson* – Ethical Markets Media Now everyone and every organization on the planet is going virtual, we can observe some simple rules and etiquette in all our online communications, so as to preserve our internet and ensure priority access… Continue Reading
By Beatrix Hoffman* – Newsweek Even as they put their own lives on the line, health care workers are confronted with another, agonizing fear: that they will have to make choices about who lives and who dies. Rationing of masks… Continue Reading
