By Eszter Zalan – EUobserver Italy’s election on Sunday is more likely to usher in a right-wing coalition authorities made up of Giorgia Meloni’s Brothers of Italy, Matteo Salvini’s League and Silvio Berlusconi’s Forza Italia with a landslide victory. One of many key…
By Katrina vanden Heuvel* – Globetrotter The Biden administration will soon release its National Security Strategy, which is being revised in the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The document will no doubt trigger a renewed debate about how the United States should gear up…
By UN NEWS Since the Myanmar military launched its “disastrous” coup last year, UN-appointed independent human rights expert Tom Andrews said on Wednesday that conditions have worsened, “by any measure”. “With each report I have warned that unless UN Member States change course…
By Gerardo Femina* -Pressenza, international news agency In an interview broadcast on CNN on Sunday 18 September, former President Clinton defended himself against frequent accusations that the Ukrainian crisis was the responsibility of NATO’s expansion into Eastern…
By Martin Chulov* – The Guardian Signs of groundswell taking shape against state that routinely commits extreme acts of violence against men and women Mahsa Amini’s death in custody is fast becoming another moment of reckoning for the Iranian regime that fears a popular revolt…
By Sam Pizzigati* – CounterPunch website By November 1948, the postwar “Baby Boom” in the United States had been roaring along for nearly three years. But America’s media spotlight didn’t go whole-hog on babies until that November, the month that saw the young Queen Elizabeth…
By Ilan Berman* – Newsweek These days, to say China isn’t popular in Washington is something of an understatement. The past several years have seen our dominant view of that country change dramatically.
Graham* – The Atlantic Donald Trump’s newest defense strategy is laced with menace The line between imagination and delusion is thin, as Donald Trump’s initial reaction to an FBI search at Mar-a-Lago in August demonstrated. In the first days afterward, the former president saw…
By ANTONIO POLITO – Corriere della Sera I don’t think that in other European countries political leaders boast publicly that they are good at bringing down governments. In Italy, Matteo Renzi has done it. ‘It is not a Giorgia stai serena,’ the leader of Fratelli d’Italia warned…
By Prabir Purkayastha * – Globetrotter/Independent Media Institute The so-called electricity markets were created to help private capital, not people. It is time that we wind up such bogus electricity markets and return all such public services to the people, to be run…
