By Jeffrey Sachs*- Common Dreams The world economy is experiencing a deep process of economic convergence, according to which regions that once lagged the West in industrialization are now making up for lost time. The World Bank’s release on May 30 of its latest estimates of…
By Thankom Arun* – The Conversation Narendra Modi may have led his Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) to a historic third term, but the landslide victory that many had expected failed to materialise. With half of the 640 million votes counted…
By Cas Mudde* – The Guardian On Thursday, the Dutch will be the first to go to the polls in the European elections, which are technically a collection of 27 national ballots held over the four days from 6 to 9 June. This is fitting, given that the last Dutch general election in…
By José Luis Granados Ceja*- Truthout Mexico’s first woman president faces an uneasy road after opponents falsely accuse Morena party of authoritarianism. Anervous but hopeful energy filled the air on Sunday night at the Morena party’s election headquarters in downtown Mexico…
By Bernie Sanders* – Common Dreams Mr. President, Yesterday, in an interview with Fox News, Speaker Mike Johnson said that I “was parroting the talking points of Hamas” and that I and others “stand with Hamas and the Ayatollah.” That, of course, is an absolute lie.
By Lisa Vives, Global Information Network / IDN NEW YORK | 2 June 2024 (IDN) — The African National Congress, South Africa’s liberation party, appears to have lost its parliamentary majority for the first time in a historic election defeat. Results show that after 30 years as…
By Vanessa Buschschlüter, BBC News Claudia Sheinbaum has been elected as Mexico’s first woman president in an historic landslide win. Mexico’s official electoral authority said preliminary results showed the 61-year-old former mayor of Mexico City winning between 58% and 60% of…
By Nadia Helmy* – Modern Diplomacy At the invitation of Chinese President “Xi Jinping”, the visit of Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi to the Chinese capital, Beijing, came to participate in the 2024 Arab-China Forum Summit, in search of deepening bilateral relations with…
Sachs * – Common DreamsEach of the last five presidents, both Democrats and Republicans, have brought us closer to the brink. We desperately need leaders with a knack for peace who can steer the nation, and the world, toward a more secure and less dangerous future.The…
By Gabriel Gavin – POLITICO Viktor Orbán wants to keep Budapest’s hand on the EU’s enlargement file. Diplomats’ response: Dream on. Fed up with Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s constant obstructionism on Ukraine, his fellow EU leaders plan to punish him by giving his…
