By Vijay Prashad * – Globetrotter, Independent Media Institute The United States, which has prosecuted a war against Afghanistan since October 2001, has promised to withdraw its combat troops by September 11, 2021. This war has failed to attain any of the…
By Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. Davies (`*) – CODEPINK It was common knowledge that a U.S. failure to rejoin the Iran nuclear deal (known as the JCPOA) before Iran’s June presidential election would help conservative hard-liners to win the election. Indeed, on…
By Mark Gevisser* – The Guardian Viktor Orban has used a new law to equate gay people with paedophiles. He’s not the first to use this tactic Last week, the Hungarian parliament banned any portrayal of homosexuality or transgenderism to minors, in educational material…
By Sam Daley-Harris* The dire warnings of democracy’s demise can be heard in the U.S. and around the world. Headlines taunt us with their warnings. While many people believe democracies are in trouble, I’m not interested in bemoaning a collapse, but in pointing…
By Amy Goodman* – Democracy Now! More than 2.6 billion COVID-19 vaccines have been administered worldwide, but many countries have yet to see a single shot amid mounting infections.
By George Friedman* – Geopolitical Futures The United States is withdrawing air defense capabilities from several Arab countries, including Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Kuwait and Jordan, with most of the withdrawals being from Saudi Arabia. According to the report, the…
Editorial – The Guardian People are starving in the Tigray region. The culprit is the devastating war In the early 1980s, as a terrible famine claimed between 400,000 and 1 million lives in Ethiopia, the international community responded to what was widely misunderstood and…
By ReliefWeb* As of April, 732,000 persons were displaced in the provinces of Cabo Delgado, Nampula, Niassa, Sofala and Zambezia as a result of violence and insecurity in Cabo Delgado. As of June, some 70,000 people from Palma were forcibly displaced in the aftermath of…
By Rosie Walters* – The Conversation At a time of so much focus on how women are held back and treated unfairly, corporations spend multiple millions telling us what they are doing to empower women and girls. When this makes them seem more women-friendly than they really are…
By Sonali Kolhatkar* – Independent Media Institute The horrors of slavery and the harms from subsequent racial injustices cannot be met with symbolic gestures like holidays. Real restitution must come in the form of reparations—which neither party seems interested in. After the…
