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 gap and other…
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 nearly four in 10 girls married before age…
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 dangerous implications of the behavior of the Republican…
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.
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.
By Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. Davies (*) – CODEPINK The world is reeling in horror at the latest Israeli massacre of hundreds of men, women and children in Gaza.
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 the 21st Century…
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 worshipers…
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 in the 1995 WTO-TRIPS (Trade Related Aspects of…
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 in public life. Lack of…
