By Sonali Kolhatkar* – Independent Media Institute Not only is it possible to switch to renewables, but it’s also cheaper and would make economies less vulnerable. Yet, bizarrely, politicians and the fossil fuel industry, who are using the war on Ukraine to justify high gas…
By Boaventura de Sousa Santos* War in Ukraine: the world has just drifted into a new and serious phase that could lead to an even greater crisis As if the global crisis generated by the pandemic were not enough, the world has just drifted into a new and serious warlike phase…
By Samira Sadeque Africa can expect new spikes in COVID-19 every six months, a report by the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change. The continent with its low vaccination rates could continue to be vulnerable.
Roach* – Project Syndicate Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is in clear violation of principles that China has held sacrosanct for almost 60 years. There is no room for China to finesse that conclusion while remaining true to its core values.
By Fernando Ayala* – Wall Street International Magazine Foreign policy analysis On 11th March 2022, a new generation of politicians of the 21st century took the helm of the Chilean government and with it the foreign policy which, according to the current constitution, is the…
By Anushka Asthana* – The Guardian On the borders of Turkey, a six-metre high wall in the snow is holding back a tide of people desperate to find a haven from tyranny The province of Van, in the east of Turkey, is a place of unbelievable beauty, where snow-covered mountains…
By Attila Kálmán * – Investigate Europe For three terms, the Hungarian prime minister has fought with Brussels and moved closer to Moscow. Then came the Russian invasion of Ukraine — a painful reality check.
William Rivers Pitt * – Truthout Imagine that you, as a refugee from extreme violence in Ukraine, called your family across the border for help — and were flatly told they did not believe you, that there was no war. You’ve witnessed the indiscriminate shelling of your…
By Mairead Corrigan Maguire* – Transcend Media Service / Human Wrongs Watch Although we all condemn President Putin`s action in entering Ukraine we must now consider what steps can be taken to de-escalate the situation. Although some low level talks have been held we must…
Mark Townsend* – The Observer Anti-fascist group Hope Not Hate says extremists present self-improvement as part of wider political struggle The far right is increasingly recruiting via online fitness groups, whose popularity soared during the pandemic, prompting fears that new…
