By Jacob Goldberg in Bangkok, a Guardian reporter in Yangon, and agencies About 3,000 estimated to have crossed over after junta attacks areas mostly populated by Karen people military has driven thousands of people across the country’s border with Thailand, adding a new…
By Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. Davies (*) – Common Dreams On March 18, the world was treated to the spectacle of U.S.
Friedman * – The New York Times We’ve stopped following our formula for success. Sometimes a comedian cuts through foreign policy issues better than any diplomat.
By Stephanie Kirchgaessner* – The Guardian Awwad al-Awwad, former aide of crown prince, denies threatening to ‘take care of’ Agnès Callamard The Saudi official who is alleged to have twice issued threats against the independent UN investigator Agnès Callamard is the head of the…
Fuller – Responsible Statecraft (*) The U.S. leadership must have set some kind of new record in managing to personally insult the leadership of the two other great powers of the world within 48 hours of each other in these early days of Biden administration foreign policy…
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 2.5 million avoidable deaths in low…
By Elie Mystal* – The Nation There are lots of people working overtime to try to prove that the mass shooting of six Asian women wasn’t motivated by bigotry. It was This week’s massacre of eight people, including six Asian women, in Atlanta was sadly predictable.
By Priyamvada Gopal* Nothing, it seems, can be allowed to tarnish the national myth – as I found when hosting a Cambridge debate about his murkier side A baleful silence attends one of the most talked-about figures in British history. You may enthuse endlessly about Winston…
By staff writers Nikkei Asia, Japan Martial law expanded to wider region of Yangon BANGKOK — Myanmar’s military has extended martial law to broader sections of Yangon after the deaths of dozens of protesters in the city’s garment production hub, where several Chinese…
By Thalif Deen * UNITED NATIONS, Mar 12 2021 (IPS) – The United Nations says the highest levels of political power remain the furthest from achieving gender parity in an increasingly male-dominated power structure worldwide. Women serve as Heads of State or Government in only 23…
