By Claire Lim and Jomo Kwame Sundaram (*) KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, Feb 11 2020 (IPS) – Many medicines and medical tests are unaffordable to most of humanity owing to the ability of typically transnational pharmaceutical giants to abuse their monopoly… Continue Reading
By Thalif Deen* UNITED NATIONS, Feb 6 2020 (IPS) – The world’s young activists, numbering over 3.8 billion, are on the war path. The rising new socialist movements—which originated with “Black Lives Matter” and “Occupy Wall Street” (one protester’s slogan… Continue Reading
By Ishaan Tharoor, with Ruby Mellen(*) – The Washington Post It says a lot about this fraught moment in U.S. politics that President Trump’s move to slap immigration restrictions on almost a quarter of Africa’s population transpired with little more… Continue Reading
By Mark Joseph*- Newsweek “America will never be a socialist country,” President Donald Trump declared at last year’s State of the Union address. But at least 51 percent of Americans aged 18 to 29 have a favorable view of socialism.… Continue Reading
By Conor Lynch * – Truthdig Few thinkers are more deserving of criticism than Milton Friedman. Not only was he the late 20th century’s leading proponent of unfettered capitalism, he served as one of the intellectual fathers of the neoliberal ideology… Continue Reading
Mike Konczal – Roosevelt Institute SUMMARY: INTRODUCTION Over the past several decades, an empirical revolution in economics has undermined many of the assumptions of the reigning approach to economic policy, which we refer to here as “neoliberalism.” This issue brief elevates… Continue Reading
By BBC Panorama Team Leaked documents reveal how Africa’s richest woman made her fortune through exploiting her own country, and corruption. Isabel dos Santos got access to lucrative deals involving land, oil, diamonds and telecoms when her father was president… Continue Reading
By Gerry Rodgers, Michael Hopkins and Rolph van der Hoeven (*) Louis Emmerij, who died on 26 November 2019 at the age of 84, was for many years one of the leading figures in international development policy and research. Big… Continue Reading
By Vijay Prashad* / Independent Media Institute With her head bandaged and her arm in a sling, university student Aishe Ghosh went before the cameras to say that the students of the university she attends in New Delhi would move… Continue Reading
By Boaventura de Sousa Santos* The dramatic events in Bolivia in recent months have followed an imperial script that Latin Americans are becoming more and more familiar with, and which consists in paving the way for the replacing of a… Continue Reading
By Ben White* – Politico The president’s big economic achievements were wrapped up in 2019. Now Trump needs momentum in the economy and markets to stretch out for more than 10 months through Election Day. Most of the economic gifts… Continue Reading
By Farhana Haque Rahman* ROME, Dec 2019 (IPS) – By any measure this has been a devastating year: fires across the Amazon, the Arctic and beyond; floods and drought in Africa; rising temperatures, carbon emissions and sea levels; accelerating loss of… Continue Reading
By Robin Abcarian* – Los Angeles Times This week, the U.S. Supreme Court showed that, among its many talents, it’s pretty damn good at simple calculations: If cities don’t have enough beds to shelter homeless people, then police may not… Continue Reading
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… Continue Reading
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… Continue Reading
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… Continue Reading
By David Miranda * – The Guardian Brazil’s far right knows it needs protests and chaos to justify a restoration of dictatorship-era measures The challenges to democracy and civic order in Brazil, the world’s fifth most populous country, have increased… Continue Reading
By Vijay Prashad* When you look at your computer screen, or the screen on your smartphone or the screen of your television set, it is a liquid crystal display (LCD). An important component of the LCD screen is indium, a… Continue Reading
By Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka* UNITED NATIONS, Nov 19 2019 (IPS) – If I could have one wish granted, it might well be a total end to rape. That means a significant weapon of war gone from the arsenal of conflict, the… Continue Reading
Al Jazeera and news agencies Violent confrontations, highway blockades cause supply shortages as Anez moves to revise Morales-era policies. A Bolivian official said a United Nations envoy is urging the government of the Andean country’s interim president and supporters of… Continue Reading
