By Natalia Marques* / Globetrotter, Independent Media Institute Incarcerations, brutality, and torture are common in the U.S. Activists claim that this amounts to a war waged against racially marginalized, poor, and working-class people.
By John Bartlett – The Guardian Chileans will cast ballots on Sunday to approve or reject a progressive document to replace the Pinochet-era constitution Chile is heading towards a historic plebiscite on a new constitution to replace the document drawn up during Augusto…
By Vijay Prashad* / Globetrotter, Independent Media Institute Former Brazilian President Luíz Inácio Lula da Silva (known as Lula) runs about on stage at the Latin America Memorial in São Paulo. He was there on August 22, 2022, speaking at a book launch featuring photographs by…
By Jeffrey Sommers* – CounterPunch Mikhail Gorbachev presented a figure of Greek tragedy proportions. Possessing good intentions and intellectual curiosity, Gorbachev nonetheless became the most reviled man in Russia, following the USSR’s demise.
By Jonathan Rauch* – The Atlantic The former president and his allies have explained their plans quite clearly. Ever since the U.S.
By Anis Chowdhury and Jomo Kwame Sundaram (*) SYDNEY and KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 30 2022 (IPS) – Most sub-Saharan African French colonies got formal independence in the 1960s. But their economies have progressed little, leaving most people in poverty, and generally worse off than in…
By Mary Dejevsky* – The Nation As winter looms, double-digit inflation and energy costs will test unity This year’s scorching European summer has fostered a strange mixture of hedonism and stoicism. The post-Covid determination to take a holiday and frolic in the sun has existed…
Editorial – The Guardian A marked shift in the pattern of small boat arrivals shows how necessary an evidence-based, multilateral approach is If the tenor of debate about asylum seekers arriving via small boats is somewhat less fevered than in previous Augusts, that is because…
By Jackie Cabasso* A Four-Week Festival of Double Standards NEW YORK (IDN) — The 10th NPT Review Conference didn’t fail because it couldn’t produce a final document. It failed because the nuclear-armed states haven’t made good on their fundamental nuclear disarmament obligation…
By Michelle Bachelet* GENEVA, Aug 26 2022 (IPS) – As you know, after four years as the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, my mandate ends next week, on 31 August. The world has changed fundamentally over the course of my mandate.
