By Steve Phillips* – The Nation From the Democrats of the Civil War era to the Republicans of the Trump years, the white party has always posed the greatest threat to our political system Alarm bells are ringing about the dangerous implications of the behavior of the Republican…
By Prabir Purkayastha* – Globetrotter / Independent Media Institute A virus that mutates forever is a perpetual money-making machine for Big Pharma. Everybody else wants the world’s population to be vaccinated to control the spread of the pandemic.
Herszenhorn* – POLITICO European leaders are thrilled to have Joe Biden and a return to the friendly American exceptionalism they know so well. With Joe Biden preparing for his first trip abroad as president, European leaders are noticing a change in the transatlantic air.
By Amy Goodman * – Democracy Now! Guest: Elizabeth Hinton, associate professor of history and African American studies at Yale University and professor of law at Yale Law School.
By Mya Guarnieri Jaradat * – The Washington Post The past few weeks have left us more hopeless than ever Over the past two weeks, watching the escalation of violence in Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories from my home in Florida has been horrifying and…
By Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. Davies (*) – CODEPINK The world is reeling in horror at the latest Israeli massacre of hundreds of men, women and children in Gaza.
By Riccardo Petrella, Roberto Morea and Roberto Musacchio(*) A mixture of hypocrisy, cynicism and indecency We did not expect innovative proposals, but we did expect a little more breath of change. Well…. there was no breath.
By Sonali Kolhatkar* – Globetrotter, Independent Media Institute. What else could billions of American tax dollars buy instead of innocent deaths?
By Tim Schwab* – The Nation Fully reckoning with Bill Gates means not just focusing on how he treats women—vital as that is—but also confronting our own deep-seated worship of wealth and hardwired belief in hero narratives When the news first broke that Bill and Melinda French…
Opinion, by Jonathan Freedland* – The Guardian Thanks in part to a global focus more intense than on any other conflict, western attitudes to the Middle East may be shifting It’s not over, because it’s never over. But there is at least the hope of a pause.
