By Amy Goodman (*) – Democracy Now! Jeffrey Sachs: “Dangerous” U.S.
Times Now of India Exclusive That would have been among world’s most progressive charters? A lesson for all democracies Chilean voters have overwhelmingly rejected a new constitution — hailed one of the most democratic documents in the world — which was meant to have ushered…
By ROBERTO SAVIO* – MEER Bidding a farewell to the last leader of the USSR With the death of Mikhail Gorbachev, the last great statesman, and an entire epoch, disappears. I had the privilege of working with him, as deputy director of the World Political Forum, which Gorbi had…
By Natalia Marques* / Globetrotter, Independent Media Institute Incarcerations, brutality, and torture are common in the U.S. Activists claim that this amounts to a war waged against racially marginalized, poor, and working-class people.
By John Bartlett – The Guardian Chileans will cast ballots on Sunday to approve or reject a progressive document to replace the Pinochet-era constitution Chile is heading towards a historic plebiscite on a new constitution to replace the document drawn up during Augusto…
By Vijay Prashad* / Globetrotter, Independent Media Institute Former Brazilian President Luíz Inácio Lula da Silva (known as Lula) runs about on stage at the Latin America Memorial in São Paulo. He was there on August 22, 2022, speaking at a book launch featuring photographs by…
By Jeffrey Sommers* – CounterPunch Mikhail Gorbachev presented a figure of Greek tragedy proportions. Possessing good intentions and intellectual curiosity, Gorbachev nonetheless became the most reviled man in Russia, following the USSR’s demise.
By Jonathan Rauch* – The Atlantic The former president and his allies have explained their plans quite clearly. Ever since the U.S.
By Anis Chowdhury and Jomo Kwame Sundaram (*) SYDNEY and KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 30 2022 (IPS) – Most sub-Saharan African French colonies got formal independence in the 1960s. But their economies have progressed little, leaving most people in poverty, and generally worse off than in…
By Mary Dejevsky* – The Nation As winter looms, double-digit inflation and energy costs will test unity This year’s scorching European summer has fostered a strange mixture of hedonism and stoicism. The post-Covid determination to take a holiday and frolic in the sun has existed…
