By Sonali Kolhatkar * – Independent Media Institute Even as openly socialist candidates are winning political power, the right is working hard to equate socialist governance with repressive regimes New York’s second-largest city, Buffalo, has essentially elected a…
By Sam Daley-Harris* The dire warnings of democracy’s demise can be heard in the U.S. and around the world. Headlines taunt us with their warnings. While many people believe democracies are in trouble, I’m not interested in bemoaning a collapse, but in pointing…
By Rosie Walters* – The Conversation At a time of so much focus on how women are held back and treated unfairly, corporations spend multiple millions telling us what they are doing to empower women and girls. When this makes them seem more women-friendly than they really are…
By Sonali Kolhatkar* – Independent Media Institute The horrors of slavery and the harms from subsequent racial injustices cannot be met with symbolic gestures like holidays. Real restitution must come in the form of reparations—which neither party seems interested in. After the…
By Marton Dunai – Euronews BUDAPEST – The largest broadcasters in Hungary criticised a new law banning the “display and promotion of homosexuality” among under-18s as a threat to freedom of expression, and one said it could impact showings of some Harry Potter films and classic…
Davies* A recent Yahoo News/YouGov poll found that worries about the COVID pandemic in the United States are at their lowest level since it began. Only half of Americans are either “very worried” (15%) or “somewhat worried” (35%) about the virus, while the other half are “not…
By Sonali Kolhatkar* – Independent Media Institute Native American communities living alongside the route of the Line 3 pipeline project in northern Minnesota are asking all activists to join them in solidarity this June A decades-old pipeline called Line 3, run by the…
By Prabir Purkayastha* – Globetrotter / Independent Media Institute A virus that mutates forever is a perpetual money-making machine for Big Pharma. Everybody else wants the world’s population to be vaccinated to control the spread of the pandemic.
By Amy Goodman * – Democracy Now! Guest: Elizabeth Hinton, associate professor of history and African American studies at Yale University and professor of law at Yale Law School.
By Riccardo Petrella, Roberto Morea and Roberto Musacchio(*) A mixture of hypocrisy, cynicism and indecency We did not expect innovative proposals, but we did expect a little more breath of change. Well…. there was no breath.
