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Davos: Alive or Dead?
By Enrico Verga* Is neoliberalism, as classically incarnated at Davos, dead? Two major establishment organs give opposing answers.
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World Social Forum: open space or organization?
By Chico Whitaker, Jorge Abrahão, José Correia Leite, Mauri José Vieira Cruz, Moema Miranda, Oded Grajew, Salete Valesan, Sergio Haddad. Some ideas about the discussions on the future of the WSF In February 2000, representatives of eight social movements, trade unions and…
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The robot, unemployment, and immigrants
By Roberto Savio* ROME, Feb 19 2018 -Since a few days, Amazon has started Amazon Go. The idea is simple: a shop where you go in, take whatever you want from the shelves, and the cost goes automatically to a magnetic card that you carry.
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Makedonia Not a Rose by Any Other Name
by Nadia Batok* Since 1991, when the former Yugoslavia collapsed, Makedonia – or Macedonia as it is generally known – and Greece have been engaged in a dispute over what the former should be called. Makedonia is a historical and geographical region in the Balkans…
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Oxfam’s Sexual Abuse Episode Must Inspire a Culture Shift
By Siddharth Chatterjee* NAIROBI, Kenya, Feb 16 2018 (IPS) – Sexual abuse allegations against Oxfam staff, and failings in the charity’s response to them, delivered a body blow to an organisation renowned for years of humanitarian and development work. At the very least the…
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The Costs of US Wars Are Staggering, but Most Americans Continue to Ignore Them
By Stephanie Savell* – TomDispatch I’m in my mid-thirties, which means that, after the 9/11 attacks, when this country went to war in Afghanistan and Iraq in what President George W. Bush called the “Global War on Terror,” I was still in college.
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Zuma is not enough. The ANC itself must be cleansed of corruption
Sisonke Msimang* – The Guardian South Africa’s unpopular leader is gone. But if the once mighty ANC is to have a future, this is what Cyril Ramaphosa must do Jacob Zuma, South Africa’s unpopular president, has finally been removed. Yet the terms of his departure were deeply…
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Amazon Doesn’t Just Want to Dominate the Market—It Wants to Become the Market
By Stacy Mitchell * – The Nation The company is a radically new kind of monopoly with ambitions that dwarf those of earlier empires. Chris Lampen-Crowell started to feel the undertow four years ago.
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Netanyahu’s shamelessness is corrupting Israel
Peter Beaumont – The Guardian Like Trump and Berlusconi, the Israeli leader knows our imperfect democracy is no match for his brazen and disingenuous politics A few weeks ago in Tel Aviv a noisy demonstration gathered on Rothschild Boulevard to protest at the slow pace of the…
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‘Causes of Rohingya Refugee Crisis Originate in Myanmar; Solutions Must Be Found There’
By Human Wrongs Watch* Nearly six months after an outbreak of violence drove almost 700,000 minority Rohingyas from Myanmar to seek safety in Bangladesh, senior United Nations officials on 13 February 2018 said it is time to address the root causes – including decades of…