Zimmermann and Victoria Vernon (*) – openDemocracy Europe wastes money on futile border fences when better solutions are staring it in the face It’s time to rethink EU migration policy. New walls are being built in Europe, but they will not solve the present crisis – and…
By Eddy Wax – POLITICO In a sprawling criminal investigation, all roads lead to the European Parliament’s subcommittee on human rights. The Socialist MEP, who chairs the European Parliament’s human rights committee, accepted a trip to Qatar — and then failed to declare properly…
By Richard Lapper* The Guardian The real threat from Brazil’s radical right is not from showy coup attempts, but from less deluded ultra-conservatives playing the long game Clad in canary yellow football shirts or draped in the colours of the Brazilian flag, pro-Bolsonaro…
By Ariela Ruiz Caro* – CounterPunch Two major developments can be inferred from the results of the November 8, 2022 mid-term elections in the United States. First, the voters did not punish Joe Biden after his first two years as president as the pre-election polls had predicted…
By Carlos Gustavo Poggio Teixeira* – The Hill Once again, observers of Brazilian politics have a sense of déjà vu. Since the election of Jair Bolsonaro two years after the election of Donald Trump, Brazilians have been living in a kind of U.S. political multiverse with a…
By Binoy Kampmark* – CounterPunch website It just keeps getting darker and darker. For the professionally ignorant, things are only getting better. With one of history’s great events of sportswashing concluded – the 2022 Qatar World Cup – another state famed…
Jonathan Yerushalmy and Sam Jones – The Guardian Joe Biden says situation in Brazil is ‘outrageous’ as presidents across South America denounce ‘assault on democracy’ Joe Biden said the situation in Brazil was “outrageous” after supporters of the former president Jair Bolsonaro…
By Pavan Kulkarni* – People’s Dispatch Fighting between the Sahrawi People’s Liberation Army and Moroccan occupying forces has intensified in recent days. Morocco, Western Sahara – Moroccan forces illegally occupying the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR) have come under…
By Peter Wehner* – The Atlantic For Trump, the violence on January 6 was a bonus. “We all look like domestic terrorists now.” Those are the words of Hope Hicks, one of Donald Trump’s most loyal aides, in a text she sent to Ivanka Trump’s chief of staff on January 6, 2021. They…
