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 observers became convinced it…
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 13 November 2020 when Moroccan…
By Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. 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 Libya…
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 across the country and shutting…
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…
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 to…
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 arraigned in a closed-door court…
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, medicine shortages and threats of famine…
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 the subversive banging and…
