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
Opinion, Doug Gordon* – Newsweek “The system was blinking red.” That is what an intelligence official reportedly said about briefings President Donald Trump and congressional leaders received in January about the spread of coronavirus and its potential to become a… Continue Reading
By Democracy Now! * Author, activist and journalist Naomi Klein says the coronavirus crisis, like earlier ones, could be a catalyst to shower aid on the wealthiest interests in society, including those most responsible for our current vulnerabilities, while offering… Continue Reading
By Antonio Martins* – Outras Palavras, Brasil Panic in the markets: the global crisis shows a tendency to be prolonged and deep. The “Davos Class” will respond with more inequality and less democracy. But a path has opened for the… Continue Reading
By Farhana Haque Rahman* ROME, Mar 5 2020 (IPS) – The narrative surrounding women’s rights in 2020 carries much hope and possibility. A new decade is ushering in important anniversaries and milestones: 25 years since the Beijing Platform for Action, 110… Continue Reading
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
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
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
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
