By Thalif Deen* Addressing poverty eradication last week, just ahead of the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty on October 17, UN chief António Guterres warned that the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic are falling “disproportionately on the most… Continue Reading
By Tim Schwab* – The Nation The billionaire’s pandemic investments, like much of his work, remain a secret. In the early days of the pandemic, President Trump made headlines when he reportedly tried to secure rights to a vaccine from German developer CureVac… Continue Reading
Riccardo Petrella* The United States of Trump tried everything to derail the 75th UN General Assembly and thus jeopardise the future of the United Nations. The president of China, XI Jinping, by unexpectedly declaring on 24 September that his country… Continue Reading
By Vijay Prashad and John Ross (*) – Independent Media Institute U.S. President Donald Trump—supported by most of the U.S. establishment—deepened the U.S. government’s assault on the Chinese economy. The “trade war” seemed to play well with Trump’s political base, who somehow… Continue Reading
By Ariel Dorfman* – The Atlantic One tiny mark on a ballot, and then one more, and then yet another forged a better, luminous collective future in a not so distant land. Can you recognize this country? In a momentous… Continue Reading
By Marina Hyde* – The Guardian Maybe the real victims of the president’s diagnosis are his MAGA disciples who don’t believe the virus even exists Well, it’s definitely a plot twist. Like a lot of people who sat through Tuesday’s… Continue Reading
The Guardian Donald Trump set the tone for a brawl that offered a bleak picture of American democracy Lloyd Green, Derecka Purnell, Geoffrey Kabaservice and Art Cullen Geoffrey Kabaservice*: ‘There were no winners’ As this annus horribilis grinds toward its… Continue Reading
By Ana de Liz – Newsweek The co-author of the business advice book The Art of The Deal said President Donald Trump has committed one of the greatest tax frauds in IRS history, after The New York Times revealed that the president paid just $750… Continue Reading
By Sasha Abramsky*- The Nation Shooting journalists, he says, is a “beautiful thing,” his fans have “good genes,” refugees are dangerous, and his political opponents should be prosecuted. There is at times an extraordinary, almost deafening quality to silence; the absence… Continue Reading
By Zachary Dorner* – Boston Review Global trade, enslaved labor, and colonial warfare created demands for medicines that would work for anyone, anywhere. That pressure to view patients as interchangeable remains with us today. COVID-19 has made the connections between… Continue Reading
Walden Bello* In response to the cataclysm occasioned by the coronavirus, three lines of thinking are emerging, corresponding to three GTI scenarios: Market Forces, Policy Reform, and Great Transition. One line of thinking holds that, although the emergency necessitates extraordinary… 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 Marshall Auerback and James Carden (*) Independent Media Institute Trump’s rise has led to unity in the ranks opposing his foreign policy The emergence in recent weeks of a coalition of neocon Republicans and former national security officials who have thrown… Continue Reading
By Marina Hyde – The Guardian As the Republican national convention got under way last night, the party that has formed a personality cult around the personality of Donald Trump was treated to a speech from Don Jr. Say what… Continue Reading
By Jacob Jarvis – Newsweek While Republican-led anti-Trump campaigns have gained traction ahead of November, polling shows GOP supporters are shifting in favor of re-electing President Donald Trump. Efforts by groups such as The Lincoln Project and Republican Voters Against Trump have piled criticism on the… Continue Reading
By Richard D. Wolff* – Economy for All The capitalist economic system has always had a big problem with politics in societies with universal suffrage. Anticipating that, most capitalists opposed and long resisted extending suffrage beyond the rich who possessed… Continue Reading
By Sonia Awale and Ramesh Kumar – The Nepali Times(*) KATHMANDU, Aug 3 2020 – The coronavirus pandemic was a respite for nature everywhere. The air was cleaner, trekking trails were pristine, the summit of Mt Everest was deserted, and… Continue Reading
By John Nichols*- The Nation Trump is losing. So he’s lying. The way to counter his lies is with facts and an action plan for easy, safe, and fair voting on November 3. On the morning of July 30, 96… 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
By George Friedman* – Geopolitical Futures The British recently finished building two new aircraft carriers, the Queen Elizabeth and the Prince of Wales. Last week, Britain announced that one of the carriers would be based in the Pacific. Obviously, the… Continue Reading
