IPS UN Bureau Report Three inspiring #Youth4EiE Advocates – Nataly Rivas, Angela Abizera, and Jean-Paul Saif. Nataly, Angela, and Jean-Paul are three Global Youth for Education in Emergencies panel members. Ecuador, Malawi, Lebanon, Aug 12 2022 (IPS)- On this International…
By Jan Servaes* BRUSSELS, Aug 11 2022 (IPS) – On August 3rd residents of the Myanmar capital Naypyitaw were suddenly awakened by the sound of military helicopters in the air. The helicopters hovered over the city all day.
By Lisa Vives- Global Information Network NEW YORK (IDN) — In a deeply disturbing new documentary, Nigerian journalist Yusuf Anka presents a devastating portrait of his country’s worst security crisis. In the north-western state of Zamfara, heavily armed bandit gangs raid…
Editorial – The Guardian The seizure of documents on Monday relates to records of Donald Trump’s presidency, but may help to shape the political future The FBI’s search of and seizure of documents from Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida is not only dramatic and serious…
By Jorge Majfud* – ALAI To suggest that the problem of inequality be solved with handouts is like fighting an infection with aspirin. Instead of being cured, the infection increases. The breakdown could be avoided by a global agreement, but if sanity were not a rare commodity…
Richard Wolffe* – The Guardian The FBI Mar-a-Lago search suggests that the former president is no longer living in a protective bubble For a party that loves to stand on the thin blue line, Donald Trump is a curiously crooked leader. Here is a party, a grand old one, that is…
By Prabir Purkayastha* – Globetrotter Independent Media Institute, Scientific advances are not always linear; they zigzag in unexpected ways. This is particularly true of genetics, which has a dark history of being coopted into eugenics and race science.
The Observer editorial It would be interesting to know what Nancy Pelosi thinks she achieved by visiting Taiwan last week. She may say her hosts were buoyed by this very visible show of support from a high-ranking American politician – and this is true, up to a point.
By Robin Abcarian* – Los Angeles Times Hate the headline? Blame Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban. He practically dictated it to me from the stage of the Conservative Political Action Conference in Dallas on Thursday after slamming the “leftist media.” “I can already see…
By Ishaan Tharoor* (with Sammy Westfall) – The Washington Post “The globalists can go to hell,” thundered Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban. “I have come to Texas.” He was delivering what was essentially the opening keynote of the four-day Conservative Political Action…
