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The Anti-System

By Boaventura de Sousa Santos* The global rise of the far right has given new relevance to the concept of anti-system in the context of politics. In order to understand what is happening, we need to go back a few decades.… Continue Reading →

Civil Society, Economy / Finance, Human Rights, Inequality and Social Justice, Neo-liberalism, Radical extremism, Violence

A Beacon of Hope from A Buddhist Leader in the Face of Crises

Viewpoint by Ramesh Jaura* – IDN-InDepthNews BERLIN | TOKYO (IDN) — Like the United Nations, the global community-based Buddhist organisation Soka Gakkai International (SGI) is a beacon of hope to a world shrouded by dark clouds of unprecedented crises. An… Continue Reading →

Civil Society, Health, Peace, Religion

Where stands Europe in a changing world?

By Michael von der Schulenburg* – Wall Street International Magazine An open letter to Mark Leonard Europe faces fundamental geopolitical changes caused by a decline in US global power, the rise of China and Asia, a re-assertive Russia, the emergence… Continue Reading →

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Italy and the dubious honor of chairing the G20

By Roberto Savio* People, planet and prosperity Italy has been given, for 2021, the Chairmanship of the Group of 20, which gather the 20 most important countries of the world. They represent, on paper, 60% of the world population, and… Continue Reading →

Civil Society, Economy / Finance, Environment, History, International Cooperation, Multilateralism & Unilateralism, Politics

Modern Monetary Theory Could Save System

By Tihomir Domazet* Fall of the Berlin Wall, the End of the Cold War, the Collapse of communism, all symbols of the victory of Western ideology, led by the United States, were to bring new economic prosperity to the West.… Continue Reading →

Civil Society, Economy / Finance

The False Promise of Obama’s ‘Promised Land’

By Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins* – Boston Review In his new memoir the former president makes clear he had no intention of being a savior. In October 2008, a month before the historical election that would make him the first Black president… Continue Reading →

Books, Civil Society, Democracy, Economy / Finance, Populism

2020: A Yet More Devastating Year Closes With at Least Some Signs of Hope

By Farhana Haque Rahman* ROME, Dec 23 2020 (IPS) – Despite its grim record of multiple natural disasters and a deepening climate crisis, one could be forgiven for looking back on 2019 with a degree of nostalgia. There is no… Continue Reading →

Civil Society, Democracy, Environment, Globalization, Information & Communication, International Cooperation

How covid-19 and Brexit combined to isolate Britain

The Economist Christmas chaos Border closure in the Channel: continent cut off THE TWO big stories in Britain in 2020, Brexit and covid-19, have developed in parallel, without having much impact on each other. But as the end of the… Continue Reading →

Civil Society, Economy / Finance, Health

EVOLVING MARKETS IN METAPHYSICAL RECONSTRUCTION

By Hazel Henderson* – Ethical Markets Media The earliest markets for metaphysical reconstruction evolved continually from changing belief systems, religions, creation stories, cultural fashions, and later from science fiction, futures forecasting scenarios.  These changing styles of being and behaving are… Continue Reading →

Civil Society, Economy / Finance, Environment, Health

The Biden Presidency: A New Era, or a Fragile Interregnum?

By Walden Bello* –  Foreign Policy In Focus Hewing to its centrist instincts will be a disaster for the Biden administration. The left must seize the initiative. Donald Trump embarked on an unorthodox course in economic policy that combined tax cuts… Continue Reading →

Civil Society, Democracy, Economy / Finance, Environment, Human Rights

Global health : Will it become the first “res publica” of the humanity?

By Riccardo Petrella* – Wall Street International The UN General Assembly has convened a Special Session on the Covid-19 pandemic at the level of Heads of State and Government on 3 and 4 December next. It took more than a… Continue Reading →

Civil rights, Civil Society, Health, Human Rights

Vaccine hesitancy is not new – history tells us we should listen, not condemn

By Caitjan Gainty / Agnes Arnold-Forster (*) – The Conversation Following the good news from three separate COVID-19 vaccine trials, optimism that life might be “back to normal by spring” is running high. There are many reasons to temper this… Continue Reading →

Civil Society, Democracy, Health

Millions of new poor are on the way – Who cares?

By Roberto Savio* The recent meeting of the G20 – scheduled to take place in Riyadh but held virtually due to the Coronavirus pandemic – has been an eloquent example of how the world is drifting, in a crisis of… Continue Reading →

Civil rights, Civil Society, Economy / Finance, Environment, Human Rights, Immigration and Refugees, Neo-liberalism, Racism

World Bank Urges Governments to Guarantee Private Profits

By Jomo Kwame Sundaram and Anis Chowdhury (*)     KUALA LUMPUR and SYDNEY, Nov 24 2020 (IPS) – The World Bank has been leading other multilateral development banks (MDBs) and international financial institutions to press developing country governments to ‘de-risk’… Continue Reading →

Civil Society, Economy / Finance, Inequality and Social Justice

Repeating the appeal: A common global public policy against the Covid-19

Agora of the Inhabitants of the Earth Dear Reader of Othernews, As the founder and Publisher of Othernews, I  very rarely use ON for my ideas or ideals. I made an exception when I sent you the appeal to underwrite… Continue Reading →

Civil Society, Health

Big Data. A World in the Hands of Mathematicians

By Glauco Benigni* Mathematicians, managers of the immense computing powers that command algorithms and point towards transhumanism, will lead us – or probably have already led us – into “another dimension”: a “digital environment”, that is, a “numerical” dimension in… Continue Reading →

Civil Society, Digital Age, Information & Communication, Science

A common global public policy against the Covid-19

Agora of the Inhabitants of the Earth Dear Madam, Dear Sir, We hereby take the liberty of drawing your attention and solicit your support – a signature – to the initiative of our international citizens’ association the Agora of the… Continue Reading →

Civil rights, Civil Society, Health

Chile – Traps to the real Constitution Change

Chile constitutional Convention protests

by Cecilia Capanna Tomás Hirsch, independent Chilean parliamentarian, founder of Acción Humanista and two-times candidate for the Presidency of the Republic of Chile, explains how the Yes to the referendum on 25 October could run into traps that could affect… Continue Reading →

Civil rights, Civil Society, Democracy, Elections, Human Rights, Politics, Women chile, Constitution

The Guardian view on the Covid vaccine breakthrough: making it work

Editorial At last, there is hope of an end to this pandemic. Scientists appear to have performed an amazing feat, the rest of us must do our best too Medicine is only partly a matter of science; it is, very… Continue Reading →

Civil Society, Health, Science and technology

This election isn’t about the next four years. It’s about the next four millennia

By Bill McKibben * – The Guardian Time is running out to act on global heating. Electing Donald Trump the first time cost us dearly; a second term would be catastrophic All American elections determine the character of the country… Continue Reading →

Civil Society, Democracy, Digital Age, Elections, Radical extremism

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