By Nick Thorpe – BBC News Budapest – After 12 years in power, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban is asking for eight more, but his right-wing Fidesz government is facing a strong challenge from an alliance of six opposition parties. Led by independent conservative Peter…
By Nadia Batok* – Wall Street International Magazine How long until mass surveillance destroys our freedom, privacy and democracy? Yes, Mr Orwell, ‘big eyes and ears’ are everywhere.
Chris Walker* – Truthout Arecent poll shows that a significant percentage of both Democratic- and Republican- leaning voters would prefer that their party nominate an alternative to President Joe Biden or former President Donald Trump in the 2024 presidential election. In…
By Vijay Prashad* – Asia Times The UN has warned that about half the population of the country are ‘facing a record level of acute hunger’ On February 8, UNICEF Afghanistan sent out a bleak set of tweets. One of the tweets, which included a photograph of a child…
By Baher Kamal Feb 14 2022 (IPS) – Inequality is deadly… It contributes to the deaths of at least 21,300 people each day—or one person every four seconds. This is a “highly conservative estimate” for deaths resulting from hunger, lack of access to healthcare and climate…
By Tom O’Connor* – Newsweek A senior official of the Yemeni rebels engaged in a seven-year war with a U.S.-backed, Saudi-led coalition has told Newsweek that the insurgent movement holds President Joe Biden’s administration responsible for an escalation in the…
Walt* – Foreign Policy The greatest tragedy about Russia’s potential invasion is how easily it could have been avoided. The situation in Ukraine is bad and getting worse. Russia is poised to invade and demanding airtight guarantees that NATO will never, ever expand farther…
By Flora Garamvolgyi and Shaun Walker – The Guardian Thinktank linked to government has extended an invitation to the former US president Hungary’s far-right prime minister Viktor Orbán is hoping Donald Trump will travel to Budapest in the coming weeks to boost…
By David Sirota* – Jacobin Outlets like CNN and MSNBC are platforming con artists, skewing the news, and immersing the country in a flood of lies. This week, corporate media began touting a comeback for Andrew Cuomo and his brother, Chris, with no mention of the nursing home…
By Thalif Deen* UNITED NATIONS (IDN) — North Korea, whose economy has been severely undermined by rigid sanctions imposed by the United Nations and the United States, in retaliation for its active nuclear weapons program, has long justified its growing military arsenal on sheer…
