A reporter in Yangon and Rebecca Ratcliffe* – The Guardian Witnesses shaken by brutality of security forces but remain resolute in fighting military coup Fri 5 Mar 2021 – Early on Wednesday morning, the protests building in North Okkalapa, in… 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
Analysis, by Eszter Zalan – EUobserver’ Hungary’s prime minister Viktor Orbán on Wednesday (3 March) announced his Fidesz party’s MEPs are leaving their centre-right faction in the European Parliament, marking a major breaking point in the more than two-year-long saga… Continue Reading
By Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies (*) – Countercurrents On February 25th, President Biden ordered U.S. air forces to drop seven 500-pound bombs on Iraqi forces in Syria, reportedly killing 22 people. The U.S. airstrike has predictably failed… Continue Reading
By Ishaan Tharoor* – The Washington Post Three-quarters of the people on earth live in countries where freedom is declining. That’s one of the grim takeaways in an annual report produced by Freedom House, the Washington-based pro-democracy think tank and… Continue Reading
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
EDITORIAL How can the west continue to do business with the man who approved Jamal Khashoggi’s murder? As details emerged of the gruesome 2018 murder in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul of the exiled dissident and journalist, Jamal Khashoggi, most… Continue Reading
By Ambassador Sidi Omar * NEW YORK, Feb 25 2021 (IPS) – The question of Western Sahara, known as Africa’s last colony, has recently gained great visibility in international media interestingly due to two drastic developments. The first occurred on… Continue Reading
By Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies (*) The February meeting of NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) Defense Ministers, the first since President Biden took power, revealed an antiquated, 75-year-old alliance that, despite its military failures in Afghanistan and… Continue Reading
A reporter in Yangon and Rebecca Ratcliffe * – The Guardian Protesters compare date – 22.2.2021 – to 8 August 1988, when military cracked down on pro-democracy rallies Protesters across Myanmar have held a general strike, taking to the streets… Continue Reading
By Brasil Wire “I’m going to celebrate today.”— Laura Tessler “A gift from the CIA.”— Deltan Dallagnol Recently leaked conversations show shocking levels of US involvement in Brazil’s Lava Jato corruption case against former president Lula da Silva.… Continue Reading
Organizations for the defense of freedom of expression, human rights institutions, journalists’ unions and reference media all over the world have shown growing concern about the autocratic decisions of the supposedly democratic governments of Hungary and Poland due to the… Continue Reading
Portugal Digital with Lusa News Agency The growth of the far-right in Europe, including in Portugal, is the result of increased transnational collaboration, mainly through the Internet and outside parties or organizations, a European report concludes. “While it is important… Continue Reading
By Larry Jagan BANGKOK, Feb 17 2021 (IPS) – Myanmar’s top generals have begun the process to prevent Aung San Suu Kyi – the country’s popular civilian leader – from ever holding political power. Both she and president Win Myint were… Continue Reading
By Sania Farooqui* NEW DELHI, India, Feb 2021 (IPS) – The armed conflict in Yemen which has lasted six years, has killed and injured over thousands of civilians, displaced more than one million people and given rise to cholera outbreaks,… Continue Reading
Editorial – The Observer As the military cracks down ever harder on protesters, the west and China must work together to prevent disaster It began with red balloons and ribbons, silent symbols of resistance to Myanmar’s military coup. Then came… Continue Reading
By David Scott Mathieson* – The Nation The military was never interested in peace or a democratic transition—and neither was Aung San Suu Kyi The coup d’état in Myanmar has restored the powerful armed forces, or Tatmadaw, to full control… Continue Reading
Editorial Though the former president will likely be acquitted again, the truly dangerous course would be failing to try him The evidence is clear and compelling. The deadly events of 6 January speak for themselves – as the dramatic video… Continue Reading
By Amy Goodman* – Democracy Now! Congressmember Jamie Raskin of Maryland, the lead Democratic impeachment manager in former President Donald Trump’s second impeachment trial, closed the first day of proceedings in the Senate with an emotional speech describing the terror… Continue Reading
By Phillip Orchard – Geopolitical Futures There are huge risks to abandoning the country’s previous political arrangement. For Myanmar, a country where the military brass has called the shots for most of its modern history, the putsch shouldn’t have come… Continue Reading
