By Maya Oppenheim* – The Independent -100 days since Taliban gained control: -‘We are worried about our children – they cry because they are hungry and that is so difficult,’ mother tells While the bitterly cold weather claims scores of lives…
BY SŁAWOMIR SIERAKOWSKI* – Project Syndicate Belarusian President Aleksandr Lukashenko has succeeded in manufacturing a refugee crisis on Poland’s border, largely because the Polish government is too incompetent and cynical to have prevented it. As tragic as the situation…
BY THIBAULT SPIRLET – POLITICO ‘A number of countries have used the pandemic … to crack down on freedom of speech,’ says head of IDEA. In Europe, the COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated pre-pandemic trends, providing new ways for governments to weaken democracy further, IDEA’s…
by J Jacopo Barigazzi -Politico For years, the EU was distinctly anti-wall. That’s changing, ripping open a divisive debate about how the Continent should present itself.
By Nadia Batok* What we don’t know about unmanned aerial vehicles It is almost impossible to know what kind of data will be gathered by drones all over the world Are drones already conquering the world? Hi-tech is exponentially and rapidly changing our lives.
By Sonali Kolhatkar * – Independent Media Institute Headlines are screaming that inflation is here to stay. Consumer prices have risen by an average of 6.2 percent in the past year, the sharpest increase since 1991.
By Ronald Joshua – IDN-InDepthNews ADDIS ABABA (IDN) — Child deprivation “has a lasting and detrimental impact on nations’ political stability, prosperity and sustainable development”, warns a new report. Titled The Economic Case for Investing in Children in…
Riccardo Petrella* – Agora of the Earth’s Inhabitants The great financial predators A perverse ‘revolution’. On 7 December last, i the private company tChicago Mercantile Exchange) that manages the Chicago Stock Exchange gave the warning by opening up a…
By Victoria Tauli-Corpuz* — The Guardian World leaders recognise the importance of indigenous rights, but still haven’t committed enough to supporting our fight . ‘It is vital indigenous peoples are able to directly access finance, so when they undertake actions on the…
By Daniel Parsons and Martin Taylor* – The conversation The Glasgow Climate Pact urges countries to “accelerate efforts towards phasing down”, rather than “phasing out”, coal power that isn’t mitigated by carbon capture and storage. This subtle change to the…
