Patrick Wintour and Jessica Elgot (*) – The Guardian After Bolsonaro’s defeat and Duterte’s departure, 1.7 billion people are now living under populist rule, report says The number of populist leaders around the world has fallen to a 20-year low after a series of victories for…
By Branko Marcetic* – Jacobin Juan Guaidó was supposed to be the appealing, human face of US-backed regime change in Venezuela. His ouster as “interim president” this week is another signal that those efforts have failed. It’s official: Juan Guaidó is no longer the president of…
By Michael von der Schulenburg* Outlining the possible outcomes from the probable scenarios Whether there will be a chance for peace in Ukraine depends, above all, on the United States! For the USA, this war is about its geostrategic goals and only geostrategic considerations…
By Riccardo Petrella* The current rulers (political, economic and socio-technocratic…) are mentally and emotionally incapable of wanting to change “their” power system. What motivates them is the perennialization and expansion of their security and domination. That is why even…
by Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. Davies (*) – CODEPINK NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, known for his staunch support for Ukraine, recently revealed his greatest fear for this winter to a TV interviewer in his native Norway: that the fighting in Ukraine could spin out of…
by Gunter Pauli* Paper stimulates the brain while tablets put your neurons asleep As author of 25 books and 365 fables I have a keen interest in understanding how to best reach my audience. More, how to succeed that my readers remember what I wrote, even how could I influence…
By David Renton* – Truthout The far right continues to grow in Europe, with extremist parties gaining ground in Italy, France and Sweden. With the defeat of Donald Trump in the 2020 presidential election, many of us hoped that the European far right would suffer a similar…
By Karl Mathiesen – POLITICO Deforestation in Brazil surged 60 percent under Lula’s predecessor, Jair Bolsonaro. Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva was to be sworn in as president of Brazil on Sunday, a moment he has claimed would help turn back a tide of destruction engulfing the Amazon…
By various specialized authors (*) – Princeton University Few phenomena sway global politics today as does migration. Economic volatility, violence-laden crises, and climate change produce millions of migrants annually and collectively threaten to displace much of the world’s…
BY UN FOUNDATION CLIMATE, ENERGY, AND ENVIRONMENT TOWARD COP 28 AND FASTER, MORE URGENT CLIMATE ACTION When it comes to climate change, 2022 was a split screen: As the world took several important steps to curb the climate crisis, its impacts continued to worsen. Our climate and…
