By Aida Chávez* – The Nation Party leadership blocked an amendment to roll back restrictions on the amount of money people in the US can send to their families in Cuba. This week, House Democratic leadership killed an attempt to end aspects of former President Donald Trump’s…
By Trevor Page* LETHBRIDGE, Canada, Jul 29 2021 (IPS) – From an international humanitarian perspective, the first half of 2021 has been disappointing. We’re no further ahead in ending the conflict in Syria and Yemen. From the fledgling democracy that it had become, Myanmar has…
Editorial – The Guardian Hungary’s prime minister is once again stoking the politics of division ahead of an election In his victory speech following a third successive election triumph in 2018, Viktor Orbán told jubilant supporters that the result gave voters “the opportunity…
By Tom Engelhardt* – TomDispatch.com Is This Country Heading for the Exit? It was all so long ago, in a world seemingly without challengers.
By George Friedman* – Geopolitical Futures There is much discussion about the surging Chinese economy and the expanding international influence of China. There is no question that China’s economy has consistently expanded in the last 40 years, since the death of Mao…
By Elizabeth Mpofu and Edgardo Garcia (*) – Al Jazeera Social movements and scientists are staying out of the UN summit because it represents big agribusiness interests. The Global Food Systems Summit organised by the United Nations will be held in September in New York [File…
Editorial – The Guardian The killing of its president came amid growing violence, poverty and disaffection with politics ‘The murder is the latest iteration of a long running political crisis, in which Haitian elites and foreign powers call the shots while ordinary people…
By Francine Mestrum* – Wall Street International Magazine Supposedly increased social protections may just be new words for old policies John Williamson passed away on 21 April 2021. He was the economist who neatly outlined and named the ‘Washington Consensus’, the policies…
El País in english, Spain (*) On January 20, 2021, Valerie Huber, an advisor at the Office of Global Affairs within the US Department of Health and Human Services, wrote a goodbye email. A fanatical promoter of abstinence, Huber had made it her goal to undermine sex education…
Editorial – The Guardian Global rules are needed to govern the proliferation of these weapons of mass repression Last year saw the highest global military spending – nearly $2tn – since 1988. More than half of that was expenditure by the United States and its allies.
