By Thalif Deen* UNITED NATIONS, Aug 2021 (IPS) – The annual high-level debate during the upcoming 76th General Assembly sessions beginning September 21 —which traditionally attracted over 150 world leaders in a pre-pandemic era– is now clouded in uncertainty.Will it be…
By Medea Benjamin & Nicolas J. Davies(*) – CODEPINK Nine provincial capitals in Afghanistan have fallen to the Taliban in six days – Zaranj, Sheberghan, Sar-e-Pul, Kunduz, Taloqan, Aybak, Farah, Pul-e-Khumri and Faizabad – while fighting continues in four…
Editorial- The Guardian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has urged civilians to join the war against the Tigray People’s Liberation Front. The nation needs peace Ceasefires are normally cause for hope, bringing respite and perhaps even peace, if not a full resolution. In Ethiopia there…
By Ishaan Tharoor* – The Washington Post For the past half-decade, the comparisons wrote themselves. Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro and former president Donald Trump were birds of an ultranationalist feather.
By Vijay Prashad* – Globetrotter, Independent Media Institute As each day goes by, the Taliban’s forces edge closer to controlling all of Afghanistan. In the first week of August, the Taliban swept through the northern provinces of the country—Jawzjan, Kunduz, and Sar-e…
by DEVNET Japan Yoo, Jong-Hae – Former Dean of Graduate School of Public Administration – Professor Emeritus of Yonsei University Beginning with the adversity of the 36 years of grief during the Japanese Empire’s occupation, which lost the country, it became a developed…
by DEVNET Japan Yoo, Jong-Hae – Former Dean of Graduate School of Public Administration – Professor Emeritus of Yonsei University South Korea has finally become a developed country, and the old dream of the Korean people to become a developed country has finally come true…
Lerner* – Boston Review Public interest journalism may not be salvageable. But more than being saved, it needs to be radically rethought.
By Jacob Jarvis* – Newsweek Former President Donald Trump’s prominence in online discourse has majorly diminished since his departure from the White House, according to data shared with Newsweek. Online mentions of the former commander-in-chief…
Themba Mzingwane* – Newsweek When the COVID-19 pandemic first emerged in early 2020, medical experts and journalists were flummoxed by the low rates of infection and death throughout the African continent. Despite sub-par public health systems, dense metropolitan areas and…
