By Elizabeth Holtzman* – The Nation I served on the House Judiciary Committee during Watergate. What Nixon tried to do in secret pales in comparison to what Trump does in the open Donald Trump’s commutation of Roger Stone’s jail sentence is an act of blatant corruption. The…
By Justin Spike – !!444!!! InsightHungary!!! (*) Vice President of the European Commission for Values and Transparency V?ra Jourová sent a letter on July 7 to Index.hu, Hungary’s largest online news portal, expressing her solidarity with its staff…
Editorial The re-election of Andrzej Duda as president, by the narrowest of margins, shows Polish liberals must find a way to reconnect with non-urban voters To understand what was at stake in Sunday’s cliffhanger presidential election in Poland, it is worth rewinding a…
By Sam Bahour* – The Guardian It won’t halt Israel’s annexation plans, but it would be a vital step in the right direction at a perilous moment Israel’s annexation of the West Bank will be yet another tragedy for Palestinians In January, when the Trump administration formally…
By Makani Themba* – The Nation Jackson, Miss.—Before Covid-19, I would travel around the country, listening to people’s stories as we walked their block, or plotted the “beautiful next” in some center or meeting room. Now we are all in little boxes, trying to connect…
Prabir Purkayastha* – Independent Media Institute After his disastrous handling of the COVID-19 epidemic, Trump is trying to improve his waning electoral chances by reserving all of Gilead’s stock of remdesivir The U.S. has bought up almost all of the stock of…
By Alastair Crooke* – The Strategic Culture Foundation It was always a paradox: John Stuart Mill, in his seminal (1859), On Liberty, never doubted that a universal civilisation, grounded in liberal values, was the eventual destination of all of humankind. He…
By Samira Sadeque UNITED NATIONS, Jul 3 2020 (IPS) – An additional 5.6 million child marriages can be expected because of the coronavirus pandemic, which resulted in a short-term increase in poverty and the shutdown of schools. The current pandemic is also expected to have…
Editorial Benjamin Netanyahu’s plans will compound the suffering of Palestinians. International condemnation should be accompanied by consequences Annexation looks like the executioner of the two-state solution. Israel has changed the facts on the ground, with the rapid…
By Thalif Deen* UNITED NATIONS, Jul 1 2020 (IPS) – The ongoing battle between China and the United States is threatening to paralyze the most powerful body at the United Nations – the 15-member Security Council (UNSC)—which has virtually gone MIA (missing in action) on some of…
