By Baher Kamal * – Human Wrongs Watch 28 February 2019 (Wall Street International) — Do not panic! This is not about telling you how bank accounts and pension funds have been used to finance the production of nuclear bombs (they call it ‘investment’).
Nadarajah and Jomo Kwame Sundaram (*) BHUBANESWAR, India and KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 26 2019 (IPS) – Do politicians’ words matter? Since becoming US President, Donald J Trump has dismissed his opponents and others he does not like as evil, stupid or both.
By Thalif Deen* UNITED NATIONS, Feb 25 2019 (IPS) – After an exhaustive study of modern day slavery, the Geneva-based International Labour Organization (ILO) concluded there are over 40 million people who are victims of slavery, including 25 million in forced labour and 15…
By Nick Allen* – The Telegraph Bernie Sanders’ singular refusal to compromise the principles of his left-wing crusade have helped earn him the nickname “America’s Jeremy Corbyn”. In policy terms there certainly are similarities, although Mr Sanders sits somewhat to the right of…
By Steve Phillips* – The Nation Is the president of the United States a racist? The short answer is yes, but the question itself actually misses the mark and is dangerously misdirected for those who want to redress the ongoing consequences of racism in America. Since January, a…
By Emilio Godoy MEXICO CITY, Feb 20 2019 (IPS) – “We’re in a very difficult situation. There is militarisation at a regional level, and gender-based violence. We are at risk, we cannot silence that,” Aura Lolita Chávez, an indigenous woman from Guatemala, complained at a meeting…
Jean-Pierre Vettovaglia* A spark that lit a fire. The increase of the fuel tax was too much of a sacrifice imposed on the modest French homes invisible from the Élysée palace: suburbs and rural France!
By Roberto Savio* Rome, Feb., 2019 – I have been a member of the first international party: the Transnational Radical Party, founded in 1956 by Marco Pannella and Emma Bonino. Then in 1988, I was a wetness of the large protest, in Berlin West, against the meeting of the…
By Jan Lundius* STOCKHOLM / ROME, Feb 18 2019 (IPS) – Roma, a 2018 Mexican film written and directed by Alfonso Cuarón, is currently on a triumphal journey through the world. It won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival, the best director and best foreign language film at…
By Tom Engelhardt* – TomDispatch Veni, Vidi, Tweeti (I Came, I Saw, I Tweeted) . An Obituary for the Republic What dreamers they were!
