By Amy Goodman and Juan González – Democracy Now! (*) We go to Havana, Cuba, to look at what is behind protests that brought thousands of people into the streets of Havana and other cities in rare anti-government protests denouncing the island’s economic crisis during the…
Radio Free Asia (RFA) * At least 15 bodies found in a remote jungle were brutally tortured and executed, villagers say. The murder of more than a dozen people whose bodies exhibited signs of torture and were left to rot in a forest in Myanmar’s remote Sagaing region this week…
By Alina Utrata* – Boston Review Billionaires such as Musk, Bezos, and Branson peddle the idea that space represents a public hope, all the while reaping big private profits Having made enormous fortunes on Earth, billionaires are now racing each other to space. Former Amazon…
By Anis Chowdhury/Jomo Kwame Sundaram (*) SYDNEY and KUALA LUMPUR, Jul 13 2021 (IPS) – ‘No one is protected from the global pandemic until everyone is’ has become a popular mantra. But vaccine apartheid worldwide, due to rich countries’ policies, has made COVID-19 a developing…
By Nesrine Malik* – The Guardian Barring entry to the EU for travellers given India-produced AstraZeneca will separate families and harm trade If you are in the UK and have received the AstraZeneca jab, you may have been checking your batch number in the past few days to see if…
By Rosie Walters* – The Conversation At a time of so much focus on how women are held back and treated unfairly, corporations spend multiple millions telling us what they are doing to empower women and girls. When this makes them seem more women-friendly than they really are…
By Sonali Kolhatkar* – Independent Media Institute The horrors of slavery and the harms from subsequent racial injustices cannot be met with symbolic gestures like holidays. Real restitution must come in the form of reparations—which neither party seems interested in. After the…
By Branko Milanovic* NEW YORK, Jun 15 2021 (IPS) – Is Africa marginalised in contemporary economics and politics, and in contemporary economic and political research? Impressions gathered over the years and a bit of evidence (much more could be assembled) indicate that it is.
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 Network.
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 Network.
