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 Jan Zielonka* -Social Europe (London) While initial responses to the coronavirus crisis have favoured national sovereignty and public authority, effective solutions will only emerge from a complex network of multi-level governance. From Madrid to Paris, Berlin to Warsaw, the… Continue Reading
By Riccardo Petrella* Public water. Starting from the universal public security of water, the first world common good for life. It’s evening. Today more than 21,000 children under the age of five have died in the world (7.9 million every… Continue Reading
By Tyler Durden* – ZeroHedge* Authored by Jonathan Turley We recently discussed how an American University professor called for the impeachment of President Donald Trump over his handling of the coronavirus outbreak. Not to be outdone, MSNBC legal analyst Glenn Kirschner is… Continue Reading
Ahmet Insel* – for VoxEurop The human tragedy being played out on the Greek-Turkish border definitively buries one of the greatest achievements of international humanitarian law – and with the blessing of the European Union. The timing is good for… 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 John Scales Avery* A new freely downloadable book I would like to announce the publication of a book, which discusses the most serious dangers which the world faces today. The book may be freely downloaded and circulated from the… Continue Reading
The Economist Boris Johnson is busy accumulating power in Number 10 The emperor Nero was reportedly in the habit of dipping dissidents in tar and using them to light his dinner parties. Boris Johnson has not so far shown an inclination… 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 Corey Robin* – New York Review of Books It has been more than two weeks since the Iowa caucuses, and we still don’t know who won. That should give us pause. We don’t know in part because of a… Continue Reading
John Nichols*- The Nation Eight Republican senators join Democrats to declare that Trump has no authority to attack Iran without congressional approval. If senators took their oaths seriously, votes to assert Congress’s authority in matters of war and peace would… Continue Reading
Robin Kelly and David Hogg (*) – Newsweek About seven years ago, President Barack Obama issued an urgent plea while speaking with Sandy Hook Elementary School families in Newtown, Connecticut. He said America was failing to protect our nation’s most… Continue Reading
By Frank Bruni* – The New York Times Will the muddle of moderates sort itself out? The Democratic race was messy going into New Hampshire. It’s even messier as it moves on. Yes, Bernie Sanders won the state’s primary on… Continue Reading
By Michela Palese – TruePublica (*) 9th February 2020 / United Kingdom – A new report by the recently established Centre for the Future of Democracy at the University of Cambridge has found that dissatisfaction with democracy has reached an all-time global high.… Continue Reading
Aziz Huq, Tom Ginsburg, David Landau (*) – Boston Review How other countries’ constitutions protect against political free-for-alls. As dramas go, this one was devoid of suspense. The Senate trial of President Donald Trump always had a foregone conclusion. This… Continue Reading
By Joan Walsh* – The Nation And if they do that, Bolton must release his bombshell book immediately On Saturday morning, during what Donald Trump disdained as the “Death Valley” of television viewership, the president’s lawyers made an excellent case—on… Continue Reading
By AMY GOODMAN – Democracy Now! (*) Calls are growing for the Senate to call witnesses in President Trump’s impeachment trial, after The New York Times published details about former national security adviser John Bolton’s forthcoming book. In the book,… Continue Reading
By Vijay Prashad* / Independent Media Institute With her head bandaged and her arm in a sling, university student Aishe Ghosh went before the cameras to say that the students of the university she attends in New Delhi would move… Continue Reading
Allen White* – Great Transition Initiative Opening reflections for a GTI forum Transnational corporations, the engines of global capitalism, have become the target of efforts to create an economic system both socially just and environmentally sustainable. The unprecedented power and… Continue Reading
By Anis Chowdhury * and Jomo Kwame Sundaram** SYDNEY and KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 7 2020 (IPS) – The latest November 2019 UBS/PwC Billionaires Report counted 2,101 billionaires globally, or 589 more than five years before. Earlier, Farhad Manjoo had seriously… Continue Reading
