Othernews considers it useful to make this Italian position on WHO known: MOVE UP ON VACCINES: WE SUPPORT WHO’S DEMAND TO STOP NEW RECALLS (third doses) UNTIL MID SEPTEMBER AND TO USE ALL THE DOSES NOW AVAILABLE FOR VACCINATIONS IN POOR COUNTRIES. A PLAN TO REACH THE PRODUCTION…
By Dr Binoy Kampmark* – Countercurrents.org This week, Twitter was keen to share the news about its new arrangement with The Associated Press and Reuters “to expand our efforts to identify and elevate credible information” on its platform. The company reiterates…
BY WALDEN BELLO* During his last State of the Nation address on July 26, 2021, President Duterte appeared to have forgotten his assertion five years earlier that the WTO was principally responsible for the crisis of Philippine rice agriculture This is the first of a two-part…
By Hazel Henderson* – Wall Street International Magazine I am deeply worried about today’s unhealed political divisions in United States of America As a native Brit, I am deeply worried about today’s unhealed political divisions in my beloved adopted country, the still United…
By Francis Ghiles* – CIDOB The bold move by Tunisia’s president, Kais Saied, to dismiss the government and Freeze parliament, on Sunday 25th of July, is the biggest challenge this fledgling democracy is facing since the 2011 revolution. The Tunisian army has backed the…
Sachs* – Project SyndicateAs a powerful complement to the United Nations, the G20 has acquitted itself well by representing most of the world’s population and economic output with a limited membership. By expanding to include the African Union, it would overcome its biggest…
By Anis Chowdhury and Jomo Kwame Sundaram (*) SYDNEY and KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 2021 (IPS) – Hopes for an inclusive global economic recovery are fast fading. As rich countries have done little to ensure poor countries’ access to vaccines and fiscal resources, North-South…
Editorial- The Guardian The increasingly draconian approach to irregular migration betrays the spirit of the 1951 refugee convention Seventy years ago, the 1951 UN refugee convention established the rights of refugees to seek sanctuary, and the obligations of states to protect…
By Justin Podur* – Globetrotter, Independent Media Institute After mass graves full of Indigenous children have been found, how can Canada justify ongoing land theft? Canada is developing a new image: one of burning churches, toppling statues, and mass…
Carden* – Independent Media Institute “If there were a moral to be drawn from the Crimean War which might apply to the present it would be this: in a war between Russia and the West, it is the powers which keep out who will be the the real gainers…” AJP Taylor, February 1951 The…
