By Thalif Deen * UNITED NATIONS, Dec 12 2019 (IPS) – Appearing before 17 judges of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague, Aung San Suu Kyi, the de facto civilian leader of Myanmar, became a public apologist for the military government of Myanmar which has long…
David Miliband* – Opinion, Newsweek No one pretends that managing a refugee and migration crisis is easy. Not Colombia, with at least 1.5 million people fleeing from Venezuela.
By Vijay Prashad* – Independent Media Institute Noam Chomsky recently celebrated his 91st birthday. As an homage to Noam, I spent the day with one of his lesser-known books—The Backroom Boys (1973).
By Ignacio Saiz* NEW YORK, Dec 10 2019 (IPS) – Human rights advocates should be as concerned with the economic injustices giving rise to recent worldwide demonstrations as with the repressive responses to them. In recent weeks, an extraordinary wave of mass protests has…
By Francesco Martone* More than 20 years have passed since the United Nations adopted a Declaration on Human Rights Defenders that acknowledged the role of individuals and collectives that struggle to protect human rights. Since then, multiple initiatives have unfurled and…
By Jan Lundius* STOCKHOLM / ROME, Dec 6 2019 (IPS) – While opening a newspaper or watching a TV program we are every day made aware of the plights of irregular migrants. Some recent examples among many – on 24 October, 39 Chinese nationals were found dead in a lorry trailer in…
Editorial The prime minister kept a calculated distance from the US president at the Nato summit because he knows their similarities play badly with voters A US president’s low-key exit from a Nato summit, skipping the traditional press conference, would once have been perceived…
Linda Farthing * – The Guardian There is little faith – especially among indigenous Bolivians – in the elections called by interim president Jeanine Áñez As the dust begins to settle following weeks of upheaval in Bolivia, fresh elections are being promised in the new year by…
By Fareed Zakaria* Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday. It’s a secular celebration of America, and as an immigrant, I feel I have much to be grateful for.
By Nikhil Pal Singh* – Boston Review More than simple racism or discrimination, the destructive premise at the core of the American settler narrative is that freedom is built upon violent elimination. Image: A Kiowa ledger drawing possibly depicting the Buffalo Wallow…
