By Frank Vogl* – The Globalist What sets democracy apart from autocracy is that no citizen is above the law A defining feature of a democracy that sets it sharply apart from autocracy is that no citizen is above the law. Donald Trump believes he enjoys unique impunity.
By Ben Norton* – Multipolarista Top news outlet the Associated Press falsely claimed Russia fired a missile at NATO member Poland, risking World War III. This fake story came from an anonymous US spy.
Polychroniou* – Truthout Protests have been raging in Iran since mid-September in response to the death of Mahsa Amini, the 22-year-old Kurdish-Iranian woman who died in a hospital in Tehran after being arrested a few days earlier by Iran’s morality police for allegedly…
Andras Simonyi* – BIRN, Balkan Investigative Reporting NetworkThe US midterm elections went badly for Trump. That spells trouble for Hungary’s prime minister, who has foolishly gambled on a Trump return.As the only remaining superpower, the elections in the US…
By Khalid Malik* – GSF The Earth Charter was launched in 1994 by Maurice Strong and Mikhail Gorbachev, in response to the call at the UN World Commission on Environment and Development (1987) for a new charter to guide the world’s transition to sustainable…
By Katrina vanden Heuvel*- The Nation/ Globetroter It might be time to give diplomacy a chance in the Ukraine war. “When there’s an opportunity to negotiate, when peace can be achieved, seize the moment.” The author of that statement wasn’t a peace activist or a…
Progressive International Starting this December, a new global process will bring together scholars, policymakers, and political representatives from around the world to present, deliberate, and develop proposals for a New International Economic Order fit for the twenty-first…
By Aimable Twahirwa* SHARM EL SHEIKH, Nov 20 2022 (IPS) – After a tense impasse and many hours of negotiations, almost 200 countries struck a deal to set up a loss and damage fund to assist nations worst hit by climate change – a demand considered not-negotiable by the…
Sent to Other News by Cesare Ottolini* The housing and global crisis, exposed by the COVID 19 pandemic and exacerbated by ongoing wars, has made clear the failure of neoliberal policies of privatization and especially, the financialization of the housing sector, implemented by…
By Sławomir Sierakowski* – Project Syndicate Firmness and unity on the part of the West are essential to Ukraine’s defense and Russia’s defeat, which may decide the fate of the world for decades. But the recent explosion in Poland triggered an astonishing sequence of…
