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… Continue Reading
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.… Continue Reading
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,… Continue Reading
By Philip Oltermann* – The Guardian Pragmatic state premier with flat-top ahead in polls as CDU faces defeat in country’s south-west Winfried Kretschmann, a white-haired former biology teacher who has been the state premier of Baden-Württemberg since 2011, can look… Continue Reading
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… 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 Vasuki Shastry* – The Guardian Sanctions against the coup plotters aren’t enough – the US, China and south-east Asian nations should collaborate to help bring about change Four weeks after he deposed Myanmar’s democratically elected government, General Min Aung… Continue Reading
Por Frank Rijsberman, Ingvild Solvang y Bertha Wakisa Chiudza (*) International Women’s Day, 2021 SEOUL, Republic of Korea, Mar 8 2021 (IPS) – As the global effort to address climate change has strengthened over the last few years, so has… Continue Reading
By Anders Breidlid and Tomm Kristiansen (*) Norway is a new member of the UN Security Council from January 1 2021 and will, according to the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, “use the experience of decades of work for peace… Continue Reading
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
