Civil Society

The Anti-System

By Boaventura de Sousa Santos* The global rise of the far right has given new relevance to the concept of anti-system in the context of politics. In order to understand what is happening, we need to go back a few decades.

Books

The time of Gorbachev

By Andrei Grachev* His legacy after 30 years of the disintegration of the USSR Two books were published practically simultaneously in Great Britain and France to commemorate the forthcoming 30th anniversary of the breakup of the Soviet Union. They had almost identical…

Economy / Finance

The Observer view on Saudi Arabia’s crown prince

EDITORIAL How can the west continue to do business with the man who approved Jamal Khashoggi’s murder? As details emerged of the gruesome 2018 murder in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul of the exiled dissident and journalist, Jamal Khashoggi, most observers became convinced it…

Civil rights

Health policy and the sovereignty of the people

By Riccardo Petrella* – Wall Street International Magazine “No one will be left behind” In the name of “national” health security, the dominant groups have taken measures that run counter to the much-vaunted objective of “no one will be left behind”. In reality, “vaccine…

Development

The Thai Canal Development Declaration

by DEVNET Japan We are pleased to announce the full-scale launch of the Thai Canal Development in Thailand, which will play an important role in the economic policy of the Southeast Asian region, a project we have been working on since DEVNET INTERNATIONAL was established. This…

Civil rights

Vaccine Apartheid: If One Person Is Unprotected, We Are All Unprotected

By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan (*) – Democracy Now! “I’ve personally received more doses of a Covid-19 vaccine than 130 countries,” Dr. Craig Spencer writes, about the two vaccine shots he recently got as an emergency room doctor. In 2014, he contracted ebola while…

Armed conflicts

Western Sahara, to Resume Liberation Struggle on Hold Since 1991

By Ambassador Sidi Omar * NEW YORK, Feb 25 2021 (IPS) – The question of Western Sahara, known as Africa’s last colony, has recently gained great visibility in international media interestingly due to two drastic developments. The first occurred on 13 November 2020 when Moroccan…

authoritarianism

The Threat against Free Speech on Hungary’s Airwaves

By Peter Molnar* – The Nation The government shut down a station that connected many listeners—particularly the elderly—to their country and the world When the faithful listeners to Klubrádió, a talk radio station that has been a beacon of free speech in Hungary, tuned in…

Human Rights

What Planet Is NATO Living On?

By Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. Davies (*) The February meeting of NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) Defense Ministers, the first since President Biden took power, revealed an antiquated, 75-year-old alliance that, despite its military failures in Afghanistan and Libya…