By Thalif Deen Despite advances in gender representation in legislative bodies, the track record of women in the executive branches of government – as heads of state or heads of government — remains low. UNITED NATIONS, Mar 8 2023 (IPS) – For the first time in history, says a…
Rundell and Michael Gfoeller(*) – Newsweek Like the earth’s surface, nations can be split by fault lines that lead to earthquakes. Once-unified nations like Czechoslovakia, and Yugoslavia have dissolved along their political fault lines.
By Ed Holt BRATISLAVA, Mar 7 2023 (IPS) – When D.A.* first heard about the fatal attack on a gay bar in the Slovak capital, Bratislava, last October, their first reaction was a mix of grief, shock and anger. But then, soon after, the university student and member of the…
By Patrick Lawrence* – ScheerPost The Ukraine conflict as catalyst: I wonder how many people who pay attention understood a year ago that Russia’s intervention and the West’s extravagant support for the Kyiv regime would prompt fundamental shifts in the global order such that…
By Scott Burchill – Pearls and Irritations (*) Despite celebrating 12 months of surviving the Russian onslaught, promises of more money and military equipment (including tanks) from the West, and a chorus of support for the courage and resilience of the people, the war appears…
By Louis René Beres* – ModernDiplomacy “Credo quia…
By Baher Kamal* Chronic underinvestment in agriculture is a key cause of the widespread hunger experienced in 2022, according to Oxfam report MADRID, Mar 3 2023 (IPS) – The data is shocking: three-quarters of African Governments have already reduced their agricultural budgets…
By Boaventura de Sousa Santos* – Globetrotter, Independent Media Institute Intellectuals do not have a monopoly on culture, on values, or on truth, much less on the meanings attributed to any one of these “domains of the spirit,” as they used to be termed. But intellectuals…
By Dominique Soguel * – The Christian Science Monitor Tucked away in an unassuming apricot building, the Kurdish library in Stockholm is a place where Kurds can celebrate their culture, literature, and language. More importantly, it represents what many Kurds long and fight for…
