By Rebecca Gordon* – TomDispatch Fruits of the Twin Roots of Evil: Slavery and Imperial Expansion On the Thursday of the second week of the House Intelligence Committee’s impeachment hearings, former U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara had a special guest on… Continue Reading
By Fareed Zakaria* Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday. It’s a secular celebration of America, and as an immigrant, I feel I have much to be grateful for. I am an optimist who tends to see the story of this country as… Continue Reading
By Thalif Deen* UNITED NATIONS, Nov 2019 (IPS) – The 15-member UN Security Council (UNSC) stands virtually paralyzed in the face of genocide charges against the government of Myanmar where over 730,000 to one million Rohingya Muslims have been forced… Continue Reading
Al Jazeera and news agencies Violent confrontations, highway blockades cause supply shortages as Anez moves to revise Morales-era policies. A Bolivian official said a United Nations envoy is urging the government of the Andean country’s interim president and supporters of… Continue Reading
The crisis in Bolivia fits no easy political narrative By Ishaan Tharoor* – The Washington Post The dramatic resignation of Bolivia’s former president Evo Morales and his flight to asylum in Mexico have turned into something of a Rorschach test… Continue Reading
By Ankita Rao, Pat Dillon, Kim Kelly and Zak Bennett (*) – The Guardian Voter suppression as a tactic – from strict ID laws to closing polling places to purging voter rolls – is deliberately making it hard for minority… Continue Reading
By Stuart Schrader* – Boston Review During the Cold War, the “police apparatus” was held up as a prime example of Soviet repression. Yet in its efforts to fight subversives, the United States ended up with its own carceral state. Imagine an… Continue Reading
By Boaventura de Sousa Santos* As its very name suggests, Ecuador is geographically located in the middle of the world. And now, from all appearances, neoliberalism has decided to carry out its end-ofthe-world maneuvers in this country. That is perhaps… Continue Reading
Democracy Now! (Released by Pressenza) Tens of thousands of people, led by indigenous leaders, are expected to again bring Ecuador to a standstill today in massive ongoing anti-government protests. Demonstrators flooded the streets of Quito Tuesday to decry government-imposed austerity… Continue Reading
By Francesco Martone* “Power inferno”, this is the title Jean Baudrillard gave to one of his essays in the aftermath of the attack at the Twin Towers , paraphrasing the title of a catastrophic film that hit the billboards years earlier , A… Continue Reading
Kyaw Hla Aung* – Newsweek I remember a time without discrimination. I remember a time where the Rohingya people could vote, go to school, travel freely between cities and form political parties. That was before. Today, our identity has been… Continue Reading
By JOSE RAMOS-HORTA* On August 30 East Timor will celebrate the 20th anniversary of the 1999 UN-managed referendum when our people voted overwhelmingly to separate from Indonesia. Between 150,000 and 200,000 people out of a population of 700,000 died during the… Continue Reading
By Lakshi De Vass Gunawardena UNITED NATIONS, Aug 2019 (IPS) – Being fluent in a world language is a desirable skill in modern day society. However, some languages are suffering and in danger of extinction — namely those of the… Continue Reading
Jacob L. Shapiro –Geopolitical Futures China’s complacency is a sign of confidence, not weakness After three months, the Hong Kong extradition protests of 2019 have become quotidian. The Monday morning question for China-watchers has not been whether a protest took… Continue Reading
By Amy Harder* – Axios Over the last nine months, calls to address climate change have become a powerful new social movement. Driving the news: Climate change has traditionally not spawned intense, organized and continued protest. That’s been gradually changing, and since November with… Continue Reading
By Daniel Aldana Cohen* – The Nation The climate crisis is converging with a housing crisis. We need to tackle both with a Green New Deal for Housing. The heat is on. A heat wave is breaking records across much… Continue Reading
By Thalif Deen* UNITED NATIONS, Jul 26 2019 (IPS) – The United States is no exception to the practice of modern day slavery—a crime for which it is rarely held accountable at the United Nations. A rash of hidden crimes… Continue Reading
Roberto Savio* When all is said and done, it appears that Thomas Hobbes, the 17th century English philosopher who had a dire vision of man, was not totally wrong. From the frivolous to the serious, in just a week we have… Continue Reading
By John Washington – The Nation Emiliano Monge’s novel Among the Lost leads a reader through the hellish migrant trail from the perspective of its most amoral agents. Sometimes a national conversation, no matter its constant news coverage, remains—at least for… Continue Reading
Alberto Nardelli* – BuzzFeed News A close aide to Italy’s deputy prime minister Matteo Salvini held covert talks to pump Russian oil money to his far-right party. BuzzFeed News has the tape Six men sat down for a business meeting on… Continue Reading
