By José Carlos Llerena Robles and Vijay Prashad (*) – Globetrotter.Independent Media Institute The campaign to overturn Peru’s presidential election results is one of “unconventional warfare.” Half an hour’s taxi ride from the House of Pizarro, the presidential palace in Lima…
By Justin Spike – !!444!!! InsightHungary!!! (*) Prime Minister Viktor Orbán on Monday became the first leader from Central or Western Europe to make the list of “press freedom predators” compiled by France-based free press organization Reporters…
By Justin Spike – !!444!!! InsightHungary!!! (*) Numerous European politicians have recommended cutting EU funding to Hungary in response to recent legislation widely seen as limiting the rights of Hungary’s LGBT community Germany’s interior minister Horst…
By Sonali Kolhatkar * – Independent Media Institute Even as openly socialist candidates are winning political power, the right is working hard to equate socialist governance with repressive regimes New York’s second-largest city, Buffalo, has essentially elected a…
By Mark Gevisser* – The Guardian Viktor Orban has used a new law to equate gay people with paedophiles. He’s not the first to use this tactic Last week, the Hungarian parliament banned any portrayal of homosexuality or transgenderism to minors, in educational material…
Editorial The rise to prominence of the Brothers of Italy party and its abrasive leader, Giorgia Meloni, is a disturbing development By the turbulent standards of Italian politics, it has been a relatively stable spring. The country’s new technocrat prime minister, Mario Draghi…
By Ruhi Bhasin* – Independent Media Institute/Globetrotter As Indians continue to scramble for survival through a deadly second COVID-19 wave and deal with an inadequate health care system that has failed them at every step, for a majority of the country living…
By Jonathan Blitzer* – The New Yorker The Biden Administration has begun an ambitious effort to reunite more than a thousand families torn apart by Trump. For the past two years, Keldy Mabel Gonzáles Brebe de Zúniga kept a daily ritual.
By Siva Vaidhyanathan* – The Guardian The reality is that Trump used Facebook most effectively as an organizing and fundraising tool, not as a platform for ‘posting’ The world is a lot better off without Donald Trump as president of the United States. And Facebook is a lot more…
By Fábián Tamás – Telex (*) With a year left until what looks to be a tight election, the government is reallocating considerable amounts of public assets away from the state and into, e.g., foundations. The goal could be to sustain Orbán’s “System of National Cooperation” in…
