Opinion, Celso Amorim* – The Guardian As Covid deaths climb the president seems to be throwing the country into an abyss that will be difficult to escape from It is no exaggeration to say that Brazil is going through the most serious crisis in its history. With nearly…
By Roy Morrison* – Wall Street International Magazine Failure to build a democratic ecological future will be catastrophic Globally, democracy is under attack and in retreat. Economic crisis, global pandemic, climate disaster raise questions about the efficacy of democracy…
Editorial – The Guardian Hundreds have died since February’s coup. Civilians are defiant – but while their resistance persists, so does the military’s bloody grip on power Eleven-year-old Aye Myat Thu was buried with her dolls at the weekend, hours after she was killed by…
Insight Hungary* Prime Minister Viktor Orbán will host his Polish counterpart, Mateusz Morawiecki, and former Italian interior minister Matteo Salvini in Budapest Thursday to discuss a potential right-wing alliance on the European level, Orbán’s press secretary confirmed…
By Amy Goodman and Juan González (*) – Democracy Now! More than 500 people have been killed in Burma during protests against the February 1 military coup that toppled Burma’s democratically elected civilian government.
By Alf Gunvald Nilsen* – Boston Review Narendra Modi’s government has used lockdown to force further neoliberalization and continue its assault on pro-democracy activists. “From midnight tonight onwards, the entire country, please listen carefully, the entire country…
By Jacob Goldberg in Bangkok, a Guardian reporter in Yangon, and agencies About 3,000 estimated to have crossed over after junta attacks areas mostly populated by Karen people military has driven thousands of people across the country’s border with Thailand, adding a new…
By Stephanie Kirchgaessner* – The Guardian Awwad al-Awwad, former aide of crown prince, denies threatening to ‘take care of’ Agnès Callamard The Saudi official who is alleged to have twice issued threats against the independent UN investigator Agnès Callamard is the head of the…
By Fábián Tamás – Telex.hu (*) Over the past few weeks, the state of Hungary’s media has become the focus of intense public debate both domestically and across Europe. After the exclusively Fidesz-chaired Media Council revoked the oppositional Klubrádió’s frequency for…
By Elie Mystal* – The Nation There are lots of people working overtime to try to prove that the mass shooting of six Asian women wasn’t motivated by bigotry. It was This week’s massacre of eight people, including six Asian women, in Atlanta was sadly predictable.
