Linda Farthing * – The Guardian There is little faith – especially among indigenous Bolivians – in the elections called by interim president Jeanine Áñez As the dust begins to settle following weeks of upheaval in Bolivia, fresh elections are… Continue Reading
By Nikhil Pal Singh* – Boston Review More than simple racism or discrimination, the destructive premise at the core of the American settler narrative is that freedom is built upon violent elimination. Image: A Kiowa ledger drawing possibly depicting the Buffalo… Continue Reading
By Nikolaj Nielsen* – EUobserver.com (Brussels) A mandatory 2015 scheme to dispatch people seeking international protection from Greece and Italy across the European Union did not deliver promised results, say EU auditors. Although member states took in some 35,000 people… Continue Reading
By Celina della Croce* – Independent Media Institute Thirteen of us squeezed into Congressman Jim McGovern’s small office in Northampton, Massachusetts, far outnumbering the number of chairs available. At the head of the table sat Koby Gardner-Levine, the congressman’s Northampton… Continue Reading
Jess Morales Rocketto* – Newsweek The family separation and detention crisis at the border is even worse than we thought. News last week revealed that the Trump administration detained nearly 70,000 children in immigration custody in the past year, surpassing… Continue Reading
Al Jazeera and news agencies Violent confrontations, highway blockades cause supply shortages as Anez moves to revise Morales-era policies. A Bolivian official said a United Nations envoy is urging the government of the Andean country’s interim president and supporters of… Continue Reading
The crisis in Bolivia fits no easy political narrative By Ishaan Tharoor* – The Washington Post The dramatic resignation of Bolivia’s former president Evo Morales and his flight to asylum in Mexico have turned into something of a Rorschach test… Continue Reading
By Eoin Higgins, staff writer – Common Dreams* “Bolivia’s lithium belongs to the Bolivian people. Not to multinational corporate cabals.” Bolivia’s Salar de Uyuni salt flats hold the largest reserves of lithium in the world. The Sunday military coup in… Continue Reading
By José Gabriel Feres* – Pressenza International Press Agency The resignation of Evo Morales, President of Bolivia, and of Vice-President Álvaro García Lineras is undoubtedly a regrettable fact, not only for Bolivia, but for all democratic processes on the continent… Continue Reading
By Selam Gebrekidan, Matt Apuzzo(*) and Benjamin Novak – The New York Times The European Union spends $65 billion a year subsidizing agriculture. But a chunk of that money emboldens strongmen, enriches politicians and finances corrupt dealing. CSAKVAR, Hungary — Under Communism,… Continue Reading
By Prof Rodrigue Tremblay* – Global Research “If this [U.S.] government ever became a tyrant, if a dictator ever took charge in this country, the technological capacity that the intelligence community has given the government could enable it to impose total tyranny,… Continue Reading
By Stuart Schrader* – Boston Review During the Cold War, the “police apparatus” was held up as a prime example of Soviet repression. Yet in its efforts to fight subversives, the United States ended up with its own carceral state. Imagine an… Continue Reading
By Jon Henley* – The Guardian Analysts say tactic of cooperation against nationalist parties appears to be working A narrower-than-expected win for Poland’s ruling Law and Justice party (PiS) and a serious setback for Hungary’s governing Fidesz show eastern Europe’s… Continue Reading
By LILI BAYER – POLITICO Liberal beats incumbent backed by Hungary’s ruling party. BUDAPEST — Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán suffered his biggest political setback in a decade on Sunday, when an opposition candidate became mayor of Budapest by defeating an… Continue Reading
By Jordan Stancil*– The Nation The assassination of a local politician is waking up the country to the threat of the radical right No one had planned to house refugees in Kassel district in western Germany. But then, no one… Continue Reading
By Sasha Abramsky* – The Nation That, plus Supreme Court clearance for a white-nationalist asylum policy, and GOP dirty tricks in North Carolina—all in a week’s work for the Trumpists While many in the media were fixated on Trump’s Twitter… Continue Reading
By Francesco Martone* “Power inferno”, this is the title Jean Baudrillard gave to one of his essays in the aftermath of the attack at the Twin Towers , paraphrasing the title of a catastrophic film that hit the billboards years earlier , A… Continue Reading
By Raoni Metuktire * – The Guardian You destroy our lands, poison the planet and sow death, because you are lost. And soon it will be too late to change For many years we, the indigenous leaders and peoples of… Continue Reading
THE ECONOMIST His achievements are bad for Hungarian liberty—and an object lesson in what is possible for would-be autocrats elsewhere BUDAPEST AND DEBRECEN, Aug 29th 2019. “Aking”, Bruce Springsteen has pointed out, “ain’t satisfied ‘til he rules everything.” It was to… Continue Reading
Mehdi Hasan* ISN’T IT TIME Nobel Peace Prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi was indicted for war crimes and genocide at the International Criminal Court? This Sunday marks two years since the Burmese military, the Tatmadaw, arrived in Rakhine state, in… Continue Reading
