By Paul Taylor and Oksana Antonenko (*) – POLITICO The crisis in the country is a test of the EU’s ability to stabilize its neighborhood. Europe cannot afford to sit out the growing crisis between Russia and Ukraine and leave it to United States President Joe Biden alone…
BBC World Canada has pledged up to C$40bn ($31bn; £23.6bn) in compensation for indigenous children and families who suffered discrimination while in foster care. In September, a top court upheld a 2016 ruling that the government underfunded First Nations services compared with…
By Andrew Mitrovica* – Al Jazeera Trump will, in all likelihood, be the Republican nominee for president in 2024 with a better than good chance of occupying the White House once again The anxiety over Donald Trump’s possible re-election as president hovers like the prospect of a…
Peter Beaumont* and Nick Dall – The Guardian Concerns over equipment shortages, bottlenecks and hesitancy on continent with 7.5% vaccine coverage With 1bn doses of Covid vaccines expected to arrive in Africa in the coming months, concern has shifted to a global…
Alexander Baunov* – Carnegie Moscow Center For now, Biden is the leader who prevented a war, but that’s not to say that the summit will be followed by a rapid de-escalation: not until Moscow sees new steps being taken by Washington on Ukraine. First and foremost, that means…
By Timothy Garton Ash – The Guardian The new government headed by Chancellor Olaf Scholz has a plan – and it is already being put to the test The Lufthansa stewardess on the flight from London to Munich handed me one very small, yellow-wrapped bar of chocolate: the usual ration…
By Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. Davies (*) – CODEPINK President Biden’s virtual Summit for Democracy on December 9-10 is part of a campaign to restore the United States’ standing in the world, which took such a beating under President Trump’s erratic foreign policies.
Joanna York – France24 Myanmar’s military junta Monday sentenced elected leader Aung San Suu Kyi to four years in jail – later reduced to two – but this shows no sign of slowing all kinds of resistance against military rule. Suu Kyi has traditionally been seen as a…
By Carisa Nietsche, Jeff Cirillo (*) – Project Syndicate Although the worldwide populist surge is far from over, liberal democratic forces in Central Europe and Turkey have shown that they can reverse this backwards march. By learning from each other, opposition parties…
By Katrina vanden Heuvel * – Globetrotter, Independent Media Institute On December 9 and 10, President Biden will host a virtual “Summit for Democracy.” The gathering will bring together leaders from 110 countries who work in government, civil society and the private…
