Timothy Garton Ash* – The Guardian A planned ‘coronavirus tax’ on revenues and attacks on foreign-owned media threaten to cut away democracy piece by piece Democracy dies in darkness. One of the European Union’s most fragile democracies, Poland, now faces… Continue Reading
By Agora of the Inhabitants of the Earth David Maria SASSOLI President@ep.europa.eu david.sassoli@ep.europa.eu and to the Presidents of the Parliamentary Groups of the EP Manfred WEBER Président, EPP Manfred.weber@ep.europa.eu Iratxe GARCÍA PÉREZ Présidene, PA S&D Président, Renew Europe Dacian.ciolos@ep.europa.eu Marco… Continue Reading
By Alf Gunvald Nilsen* – Boston Review Narendra Modi’s government has used lockdown to force further neoliberalization and continue its assault on pro-democracy activists. “From midnight tonight onwards, the entire country, please listen carefully, the entire country shall go under… Continue Reading
By Anis Chowdhury and Jomo Kwame Sundaram (*) SYDNEY and KUALA LUMPUR, Mar 23 2021 (IPS) – At least 85 poor countries will not have significant access to coronavirus vaccines before 2023. Unfortunately, a year’s delay will cause an estimated… Continue Reading
By Amy Goodman* – Democracy Now! Former Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has been cleared to run for office again after a judge annulled all convictions against him. Three years ago, Lula, a former union leader who served… Continue Reading
By !!444 InsightHungary!!! (*) Hungary and Poland on Thursday launched a challenge with the European Court of Justice over a so-called rule of law mechanism in the European Union’s budget that would link payment of EU funds to upholding of democratic standards.… Continue Reading
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… Continue Reading
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… Continue Reading
By Riccardo Petrella* – Wall Street International Magazine “No one will be left behind” In the name of “national” health security, the dominant groups have taken measures that run counter to the much-vaunted objective of “no one will be left… Continue Reading
By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan (*) – Democracy Now! “I’ve personally received more doses of a Covid-19 vaccine than 130 countries,” Dr. Craig Spencer writes, about the two vaccine shots he recently got as an emergency room doctor. In… Continue Reading
By Jedediah Britton-Purdy, Amy Kapczynski, David Singh Grewal (*) – Boston Review If we are to emerge from this era of crisis, we need legal thinking that operates on fundamentally different presumptions. We live in an era of intersecting crises—some… Continue Reading
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
By Alexis Papazoglou* – The Guardian The shortfall in supply has put the EU and the UK at loggerheads, but ethical principles could reveal a solution In normal times, a row between the EU, the UK and a private company… Continue Reading
Michael Baker and Martin McKee (*) – The Guardian Here are 16 reasons why Countries trying to eliminate the virus have been far more successful and economically better off than those that have tried to suppress it The past year… Continue Reading
By Agora of the Earth’s inhabitants There is an urgent need to remedy the catastrophic moral bankruptcy of an unjust world in which vaccines and health are not guaranteed to all the inhabitants of the Earth. On Monday 18 January,… Continue Reading
By Noam Chomsky and Vijay Prashad (*) – Globetrotter, Independent Media Institute Warnings that the oxygen supply was running out in the city of Manaus, Brazil, came to local and federal government officials a week before the calamity led to… Continue Reading
By Hall Gardner* It can still happen here! The January 6 siege of the Capitol—the very symbol of American Democracy—was like a scene out of the novel, It Can’t Happen Here, written by Sinclair Lewis in 1935. In the book, the… Continue Reading
By Nomi Prins* -TomDispatch.com / The Nation The US government’s lopsided response to Covid-19 has only worsened astronomical levels of inequality. Sometimes things make sense only when seen through a magnifying lens. As it happens, I’m thinking about reality, the… Continue Reading
By Sonali Kolhatkar* – Independent Media Institute Blaming the deadly virus surge on individuals and their risky behavior ignores that the real fault lies with a government that chooses to prioritize the health of businesses over that of humans. Los Angeles,… Continue Reading
By Ishaan Tharoor – The Washington Post Israel is the site of what seems to be a remarkable vaccination success story. It leads the world in per capita vaccinations, with more than a million and a half Israelis already having… Continue Reading
