By Maryam Jamshidi* – Boston Review The country has manipulated rules of engagement to serve its colonialist project in Palestine. Legal scholars must face this fact head on In an article published last winter in the Harvard International Law Journal, legal scholar… Continue Reading
By Wen Stephenson* – The Nation A conversation with Andreas Malm about his new book, White Skin, Black Fuel: On the Danger of Fossil Fascism. Andreas Malm, a historian and scholar of human ecology at Lund University in Sweden, may… Continue Reading
By Steve Phillips* – The Nation From the Democrats of the Civil War era to the Republicans of the Trump years, the white party has always posed the greatest threat to our political system Alarm bells are ringing about the… Continue Reading
By Prabir Purkayastha* – Globetrotter / Independent Media Institute A virus that mutates forever is a perpetual money-making machine for Big Pharma. Everybody else wants the world’s population to be vaccinated to control the spread of the pandemic. After three… Continue Reading
By David M. Herszenhorn* – POLITICO European leaders are thrilled to have Joe Biden and a return to the friendly American exceptionalism they know so well. With Joe Biden preparing for his first trip abroad as president, European leaders are… Continue Reading
By Amy Goodman * – Democracy Now! Guest: Elizabeth Hinton, associate professor of history and African American studies at Yale University and professor of law at Yale Law School. Her new book, America on Fire: The Untold History of Police… Continue Reading
By Mya Guarnieri Jaradat * – The Washington Post The past few weeks have left us more hopeless than ever Over the past two weeks, watching the escalation of violence in Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories from my home in… Continue Reading
By Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies (*) – CODEPINK The world is reeling in horror at the latest Israeli massacre of hundreds of men, women and children in Gaza. Much of the world is also shocked by the… Continue Reading
By Riccardo Petrella, Roberto Morea and Roberto Musacchio(*) A mixture of hypocrisy, cynicism and indecency We did not expect innovative proposals, but we did expect a little more breath of change. Well…. there was no breath. Worse still, in its… Continue Reading
By Sonali Kolhatkar* – Globetrotter, Independent Media Institute. What else could billions of American tax dollars buy instead of innocent deaths? At the end of 2020, as the coronavirus pandemic was continuing to ravage the populations of many nations, Israel… Continue Reading
By Tim Schwab* – The Nation Fully reckoning with Bill Gates means not just focusing on how he treats women—vital as that is—but also confronting our own deep-seated worship of wealth and hardwired belief in hero narratives When the news… Continue Reading
Opinion, by Jonathan Freedland* – The Guardian Thanks in part to a global focus more intense than on any other conflict, western attitudes to the Middle East may be shifting It’s not over, because it’s never over. But there is… Continue Reading
By María Martín |Carlos E. Cué – El País Morocco has resumed control of the border with the North African city after receiving public and private calls from the EU and foreign ministries across Europe, but hundreds of minors remain… Continue Reading
Opinion, by Alon Ben-Meir * NEW YORK, May 20 2021 (IPS) – Regardless of how the current and future violent conflicts between Israel and the Palestinians in Jerusalem will end, there will be no Israeli-Palestinian peace unless East Jerusalem becomes… Continue Reading
By Sebastian Strangio* – The Diplomat Secretary of State Antony Blinken said that the U.S. will “continue to promote accountability for those responsible for the coup.” The United States, United Kingdom, and Canada have all imposed additional sanctions on Myanmar’s… Continue Reading
By Paul Rogers* – OpenDemocracy Israel is the most powerful state in the Middle East. Its military forces may not match the likes of Egypt or Turkey in numbers, but the might of its training, equipment, technologies and nuclear weapons… Continue Reading
By Sonali Kolhatkar * – Independent Media Institute While President Biden is backing the temporary lifting of COVID-19 vaccine patents, drugmakers are making dire predictions of stifled innovation and eroded public trust. What they really fear is losing profits Days after… Continue Reading
By John Bartlett -The Guardian Victories for leftist and independent candidates over rightwingers paves the way for a long-awaited progressive settlement Chile’s established political elite has been roundly rejected at the polls six months ahead of a pivotal presidential election,… Continue Reading
By Ellen Brown* – ScheerPost In a matter of decades, the United States has gone from a somewhat benign form of capitalism to a neo-feudal form that has created an ever-widening gap in wealth and power. In his 2013 bestseller Capital in… Continue Reading
International video conference 18 May 2012 from 4pm to 8pm Meeting with political and social personalities from Europe, North and South America, Asia and Africa, to present the Citizens’ Memorandum FOR A GLOBAL PUBLIC HEALTH POLICY On the occasion of… Continue Reading
