Tom Phillips* – The Guardian Protests, scandals, corruption claims, allegations of mafia links … ‘It’s the worst start to a presidency’ in decades, says pollster Brazil was just weeks from last year’s electoral earthquake when rock legend Lobão sat down outside his backyard…
By Michelle Goldberg* – The New York Times A warmonger is the latest to lose his dignity to Donald Trump Say this for Donald Trump. He may be transforming American politics into a kleptocratic fascist reality show and turning our once-great country into a global laughingstock…
BY ZOLTÁN KOVÁCS – Index, Budapest On Tuesday, the Fidesz supermajority in the Hungarian Parliament passed a bill submitted by the Ministry of Innovation and Technology that ends the year-long struggle for the research institutes of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences…
By Hatice Cengiz* – The New York Times Washington hasn’t done enough to bring the murdered Saudi columnist’s killers to justice In May, I was invited to travel to Washington, D.C., to attend some hearings at Congress. I had imagined the city in the words of my fiancé, Jamal…
BY ISHAAN THAROOR – The Washington Post Next week, the Trump administration will preside over a summit in Manama, the capital of Bahrain. Dubbed an “economic workshop,” it is aimed at wooing investment for development projects in the West Bank — a key part of building peace…
By Baher Kamal* – Human Wrongs Watch Yet another under-reported human-made disaster: the relentless desertification of Planet Earth that may make uninhabitable some regions like the Middle East, endanger food security, aggravate climate crisis, and force more and more millions…
By Peter Geoghegan* – openDemocracy Tory hopefuls [to the post of Prime Minister] under fire for accepting cash from company linked to major ‘climate science denial’ group. Johnson has yet to declare the funding, ‘raising questions about who else is bankrolling him’.
Glenn Greenwald, Leandro Demori, Betsy Reed – The Intercept How and Why The Intercept Is Reporting on a Vast Trove of Materials About Brazil’s Operation Car Wash and Justice Minister Sergio Moro Análisis Part 1 A massive archive of previously undisclosed materials reveals…
By Ernesto Lodoño y Leticia Casado – The New York Times RIO DE JANEIRO — Leaked private messages among law enforcement officials in Brazil have called into question the integrity of a vast corruption investigation that roiled the country’s political establishment and rippled…
Johnson* – Vårt Land, Oslo Developments in Sudan are making us all hold our breaths, as we wonder whether paramilitary forces with a past in Janjaweed’s killing operations, will carry the day, and continue the terror we witnessed lately; or whether transition towards civilian…
