By Mark Berman* – The Washington Post The footage has played multiple times inside the downtown Minneapolis courtroom where Derek Chauvin is on trial for murder, showing George Floyd, a Black man, gasping for air under the White police officer’s knee…
Opinion, Celso Amorim* – The Guardian As Covid deaths climb the president seems to be throwing the country into an abyss that will be difficult to escape from It is no exaggeration to say that Brazil is going through the most serious crisis in its history. With nearly…
Agora of the Inhabitants of the Earth Resolution of the World Assembly of 22 March 2021 Launching of the Campaign Water is a Global Public Good(*) Water continues to be a commodity, ransacked, subjected to devastating commercial and financial domination. Water…
By signatories Indicated at the end of the text* A story of rebelling water. A fantasy provocation in which rebelling rivers overflow to submerge finance exchange headquarters and free the water from the stock market It is 7 a.m. on December 7, 2021.
By Fernando Ayala* – Wall Street International Magazine The fight for equal rights continues The collective Las Tesis interprets the performance “A Rapist in Your Path” together with hundreds of women The present century must be the century of the definitive liberation of women…
By staff writers Nikkei Asia, Japan Martial law expanded to wider region of Yangon BANGKOK — Myanmar’s military has extended martial law to broader sections of Yangon after the deaths of dozens of protesters in the city’s garment production hub, where several Chinese…
By Thalif Deen * UNITED NATIONS, Mar 12 2021 (IPS) – The United Nations says the highest levels of political power remain the furthest from achieving gender parity in an increasingly male-dominated power structure worldwide. Women serve as Heads of State or Government in only 23…
By Anis Chowdhury and Jomo Kwame Sundaram (*) SYDNEY and KUALA LUMPUR, Mar 9 2021 (IPS) – Developing country governments are being wrongly advised to use their modest fiscal resources to pay down accumulated debt instead of strengthening pandemic relief and recovery. Thus…
Por Frank Rijsberman, Ingvild Solvang y Bertha Wakisa Chiudza (*) International Women’s Day, 2021 SEOUL, Republic of Korea, Mar 8 2021 (IPS) – As the global effort to address climate change has strengthened over the last few years, so has the realization that rising temperatures…
By Sonali Kolhatkar* – Independent Media Institute While a public desperate for protection against COVID-19 is quick to shame “vaccine hunters,” the real culprits are the companies refusing to share their publicly funded intellectual property and the governments allowing them to…
