By Amy Goodman* – Democracy Now! Amy Goodman interviews Jeffrey Sachs and Fatima Hassan, Part two Context and interview to Jeffrey Sachs, Director of the Center for Sustainable Development at Columbia University and president of the U.N. Sustainable Development Solutions… Continue Reading
By Amy Goodman* – Democracy Now! Amy Goodman interviews Jeffrey Sachs and Fatima Hassan, Part One Context and interview to Jeffrey Sachs, Director of the Center for Sustainable Development at Columbia University and president of the U.N. Sustainable Development Solutions… Continue Reading
By Anis Chowdhury and Jomo Kwame Sundaram (*) SYDNEY and KUALA LUMPUR, Jun 8 2021 (IPS) – With the pandemic setting back past, modest and uneven progress, huge disparities in containing COVID-19 and financing government efforts are widening the North-South… Continue Reading
By Anthony Idowu Ajayi * – The Conversation The number of girls who marry before their 15th birthday has remained unchanged for 20 years in most countries in sub-Saharan Africa. The region has the highest rate of child marriage, with… Continue Reading
By Steve Phillips* – The Nation From the Democrats of the Civil War era to the Republicans of the Trump years, the white party has always posed the greatest threat to our political system Alarm bells are ringing about the… Continue Reading
By Prabir Purkayastha* – Globetrotter / Independent Media Institute A virus that mutates forever is a perpetual money-making machine for Big Pharma. Everybody else wants the world’s population to be vaccinated to control the spread of the pandemic. After three… Continue Reading
By Amy Goodman * – Democracy Now! Guest: Elizabeth Hinton, associate professor of history and African American studies at Yale University and professor of law at Yale Law School. Her new book, America on Fire: The Untold History of Police… Continue Reading
By Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies (*) – CODEPINK The world is reeling in horror at the latest Israeli massacre of hundreds of men, women and children in Gaza. Much of the world is also shocked by the… Continue Reading
By Ellen Brown* – ScheerPost In a matter of decades, the United States has gone from a somewhat benign form of capitalism to a neo-feudal form that has created an ever-widening gap in wealth and power. In his 2013 bestseller Capital in… Continue Reading
By Amy Goodman* – Democracy Now! Hundreds of Palestinians have been wounded after Israeli forces raided the Al-Aqsa Mosque for the second time in four days, with reports showing police fired rubber-coated bullets, stun grenades and tear gas at Palestinian… Continue Reading
By Riccardo Petrella and Roberto Savio (*) The appeal to the ’emperor’ of the world is a defeat of justice and the universal right to life It cannot be said often enough: the temporary waiver of the rules laid down… Continue Reading
By Héloïse Hakimi Le Grand* WASHINGTON DC, Apr 15 2021 (IPS) – Gender stereotyping in the media has a significant impact on how women and gender minorities are perceived. In turn, it affects their opportunities to fully and effectively participate… Continue Reading
By Karla Loya-Stack* – The Washington Post I have struggled with how to describe or define my identity since moving to the United States from Mexico at age 10—a struggle that was internalized and personal for years. After migrating to… Continue Reading
By Thalif Deen * UNITED NATIONS, Apr 6 2021 (IPS) – The 15,900-strong World Bank, which has funded over 12,000 development projects worldwide since 1947, is an international institution with a superlative reputation for its sustained efforts to end poverty… Continue Reading
Agora of the Inhabitants of the Earth Resolution of the World Assembly of 22 March 2021 Launching of the Campaign Water is a Global Public Good(*) Water continues to be a commodity, ransacked, subjected to devastating commercial and financial domination.… Continue Reading
By Fernando Ayala* – Wall Street International Magazine The fight for equal rights continues The collective Las Tesis interprets the performance “A Rapist in Your Path” together with hundreds of women The present century must be the century of the… 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 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
By Riccardo Petrella* – Wall Street International Magazine “No one will be left behind” In the name of “national” health security, the dominant groups have taken measures that run counter to the much-vaunted objective of “no one will be left… Continue Reading
By Amy Goodman* – Democracy Now! In a landmark decision, judges at the International Criminal Court say the body has jurisdiction over war crimes committed in the Palestinian territories, opening the door to possible criminal charges against Israel and militant… Continue Reading
