Civil SocietyDemocracyEnvironmentGlobalizationInformation & CommunicationInternational Cooperation 8 min read2020: A Yet More Devastating Year Closes With at Least Some Signs of Hope 23 December 20200By Farhana Haque Rahman* ROME, Dec 23 2020 (IPS) – Despite its grim record of multiple natural disasters and a... Read More
Civil SocietyEconomy / FinanceHealth 3 min readHow covid-19 and Brexit combined to isolate Britain 22 December 20200The Economist Christmas chaos Border closure in the Channel: continent cut off THE TWO big stories in Britain in 2020,... Read More
Civil SocietyEconomy / FinanceEnvironmentHealth 10 min readEVOLVING MARKETS IN METAPHYSICAL RECONSTRUCTION 9 December 20200By Hazel Henderson* – Ethical Markets Media The earliest markets for metaphysical reconstruction evolved continually from changing belief systems, religions,... Read More
Civil SocietyDemocracyEconomy / FinanceEnvironmentHuman Rights 4 min readThe Biden Presidency: A New Era, or a Fragile Interregnum? 7 December 20200By Walden Bello* – Foreign Policy In Focus Hewing to its centrist instincts will be a disaster for the Biden administration.... Read More
Civil rightsCivil SocietyHealthHuman Rights 8 min readGlobal health : Will it become the first “res publica” of the humanity? 30 November 20200By Riccardo Petrella* – Wall Street International The UN General Assembly has convened a Special Session on the Covid-19 pandemic... Read More
Civil SocietyDemocracyHealth 4 min readVaccine hesitancy is not new – history tells us we should listen, not condemn 26 November 20200By Caitjan Gainty / Agnes Arnold-Forster (*) – The Conversation Following the good news from three separate COVID-19 vaccine trials,... Read More
Civil rightsCivil SocietyEconomy / FinanceEnvironmentHuman RightsImmigration and RefugeesNeo-liberalismRacism 8 min readMillions of new poor are on the way – Who cares? 25 November 20200By Roberto Savio* The recent meeting of the G20 – scheduled to take place in Riyadh but held virtually due... Read More
Civil SocietyEconomy / FinanceInequality and Social Justice 5 min readWorld Bank Urges Governments to Guarantee Private Profits 24 November 20200By Jomo Kwame Sundaram and Anis Chowdhury (*) KUALA LUMPUR and SYDNEY, Nov 24 2020 (IPS) – The World... Read More
Civil SocietyHealth 5 min readRepeating the appeal: A common global public policy against the Covid-19 20 November 20200Agora of the Inhabitants of the Earth Dear Reader of Othernews, As the founder and Publisher of Othernews, I very... Read More
Civil SocietyDigital AgeInformation & CommunicationScience 6 min readBig Data. A World in the Hands of Mathematicians 18 November 20200By Glauco Benigni* Mathematicians, managers of the immense computing powers that command algorithms and point towards transhumanism, will lead us... Read More