By Boaventura de Sousa Santos* The statements by the US ambassador in his interview to the weekly Expresso on 26 September are offensive to the Portuguese people and a violation of diplomatic codes of conduct. He threatened that the US… Continue Reading
By Katie Singer* – Wall Street International Letter to Greta Thunberg: the impact of the Internet on global problems awareness Dear Greta, After centuries of too many white people not seeing racism, smartphones have made it undeniably visible. Without smartphones,… Continue Reading
By Katrina vanden Heuvel* – The Nation A personal recollection of Stephen F. Cohen, who died on September 18 at the age of 81. I first “met” Steve through his 1977 essay “Bolshevism and Stalinism.” His cogent, persuasive, revisionist argument… Continue Reading
By Hazel Henderson* – Ethical Markets Markets are ubiquitous in all human societies. Since earliest times, when they were conducted using shells, wampum, cattle, or in rituals and potlatches, markets evolved using metal coins, silver and gold, then paper, government-issued fiat and now morphing… Continue Reading
By Eric Alterman* – The Nation Brian Stelter’s book Hoax gets half the story about the toadies of cable news. Donald Trump has a few things in common with Joseph Stalin. In some ways, the comparison is an injustice… Continue Reading
!!444!!! InsightHungary!!! (*) Several hundred students of the prestigious University of Theatre and Film Arts (SzFE) in Budapest occupied a campus building on Monday amid a struggle with the government over the university’s autonomy. SzFE leaders – including the acting… Continue Reading
By Prabir Purkayastha* – Independent Media Institute The problem of hate news is built into the genes of big digital monopolies like Facebook. We need to break up these monopolies and regulate them as the new public utilities of the… Continue Reading
By Hazel Henderson* – Ethical Markets The simmering debate has now exploded about whether GDP the ubiquitous index, is a correct measure of overall progress, but still used by governments, financial markets, mass media, companies, and everyone else. Our Ethical… Continue Reading
By Eric Alterman* – The Nation The newspaper’s own reporters are challenging the Trumpian opinion section In 1981, Ben Bagdikian, a veteran journalist and former dean of the University of California, Berkeley, journalism school, tried to explain why The Wall… Continue Reading
By Glauco Benigni* The hierarchical and exploitative structure of the feudal era seems to have reappeared today on the Internet of the digital era. Regardless of any constitution and workers’ statute, neither politics nor trade unions are intervening. It is… Continue Reading
Brand new partnership leads to podcast series on global issues. Last week’s first episode of a podcast series co-produced by Othernews and TheAnalisys.News was a blast! Othernews officially started a partnership with TheAnalisys.News, a US/Canadian online magazine that aims “to carry on the… Continue Reading
The Economist In America, political and commercial strains have led to questions about its value and meaning Have you heard the news? It’s about the news. As correspondents covered the widespread protests on the streets of America in recent months, many… Continue Reading
By Justin Spike – !!444!!! InsightHungary!!! (*) Vice President of the European Commission for Values and Transparency V?ra Jourová sent a letter on July 7 to Index.hu, Hungary’s largest online news portal, expressing her solidarity with its staff which she said “has… Continue Reading
By Josh Dawsey* – The Washington Post President Trump asked Chinese President Xi Jinping to help him win the 2020 U.S. election, telling Xi during a summit dinner last year that increased agricultural purchases by Beijing from American farmers would… Continue Reading
By Marshall Auerback* – Independent Media Institute Donald Trump threatened to close Twitter down a day after the social media giant marked his tweets with a fact-check warning label for the first time. The president followed this threat up with… Continue Reading
By Raymond Zhong and Russell Goldman (*) – The New York Times The move by the social media platform is likely to spur more tension with the White House and prompt criticism from the president’s supporters. Twitter said early Friday… Continue Reading
by DEVNET JAPAN In March 2013, I established Devnet Tokyo, now Devnet Japan, as the East Asian country’s sole branch of Devnet International, which, since 1995, enjoys a Consultative Status with the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC). Before… Continue Reading
He was a faithful reader of Othernews, as well as a partner and supporter, and we would like to express our grief over his disappearance here. Giulietto Chiesa (*), the journalist who knew better than anyone else the final stages… Continue Reading
By Aarti Narsee* JOHANNESBURG, South Africa, Apr 27 2020 (IPS) – Censorship, smear campaigns and harassment. These are just some of the daily struggles that media professionals are facing in Hungary. And now the threat of jail time may be… Continue Reading
by Roberto Savio Dear Othernews Readers, Othernews has entered into an agreement with Devnet International. Devnet was founded in 1984 as a project of cooperation among developing countries, financed by the United Nations Development Plan. It also created a network… Continue Reading
