Sachs * – The Kennedy Beacon The American people urgently need to know the true history of the war in Ukraine and its current prospects. Unfortunately, the mainstream media ––The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, MSNBC, and CNN –– have become mere…
By Boaventura de Sousa Santos* – Z. Feel On 14 June, a migrant boat sank in the Aegean Sea, killing between 400 and 700 people from Afghanistan, Pakistan, Syria and Egypt.
By Thalif Deen* UNITED NATIONS, Jul 17 2023 (IPS) – Just after a band of mercenaries tried to oust the government in the Maldives back in 1988, I asked a Maldivian diplomat, using a familiar military catch phrase, about the strength of his country’s “standing army.” “Standing…
Gordon Brown* If the anti-feminist, anti-migration Vox seizes power, this will embolden the far right in Germany, Finland and beyond If you want to peer into the future of Europe, just look to recent events in Spain in the lead up to its general election on 23 July. A…
By Jon Danielsson* – VoxEU.org Artificial intelligence is expected to be widely used by central banks as it brings considerable cost saving and efficiency benefits. However, as this column argues, it also raises difficult questions around which tasks can safely be outsourced to…
France24 / AFP The United Nations on Wednesday said nearly three months of war in Sudan have uprooted more than three million people, and called for the warring sides to face “accountability”. Britain said it was taking action. It announced sanctions on businesses it said were…
by Ellen Brown* – ScheerPost “Rather than collecting taxes from the wealthy,” wrote the New York Times Editorial Board in a July 7 opinion piece, “the government is paying the wealthy to borrow their money.” Titled “America Is Living on Borrowed Money,” the editorial…
By Phil Miller* – Progressive International With Washington poised to ship cluster bombs to Kyiv, Declassified visits Kosovo to review the grim legacy of NATO firing this banned weapon in the Balkans. While this war might seem like a distant memory for those beyond the…
Goodman* – CounterPunch website Following months of debate, the Biden administration has decided to supply Ukraine with cluster munitions, weapons that more than 120 countries have pledged not to use because of the threat to innocent civilians. Most NATO members favor the…
Klare* – TomDispatch A world in which machines governed by artificial intelligence (AI) systematically replace human beings in most business, industrial, and professional functions is horrifying to imagine. After all, as prominent computer scientists have been warning us…
