Armed conflicts

UN warns of ‘mass deaths’ in Myanmar after 100,000 flee fighting

By Al Jazeera UN says people fleeing military’s ‘brutal, indiscriminate attacks’ in eastern Kayah are in dire need of food and water. A United Nations rights expert has warned of “mass deaths from starvation, disease and exposure” in eastern Myanmar after “brutal, indiscriminate…

Civil rights

A People’s Vaccine Against a Mutating Virus and Neoliberal Rule

Davies* A recent Yahoo News/YouGov poll found that worries about the COVID pandemic in the United States are at their lowest level since it began. Only half of Americans are either “very worried” (15%) or “somewhat worried” (35%) about the virus, while the other half are “not…

Civil Society

Valuing love economies

By Hazel Henderson* – Wall Street International Magazine Revealed as driving positive human evolution! In Time to Dethrone Economics, I tracked the growing wake-up from the delusions of money-measured GDP growth and all the price-denominated, over-aggregated macroeconomic…

Armed conflicts

Free to choose: A new plan for peace in Western Sahara

By ReliefWeb* Download document (PDF | 785.39 KB) Summary The recent violent end of the ceasefire in Western Sahara means the EU and the UN should pay renewed attention to resolving the longstanding conflict between the native Sahrawis and Morocco. Various peace-making efforts…