By Michael von der Schulenburg* – Wall Street International Magazine A letter to Roberto Savio The impeachment process in the US Congress is over, with former President Trump being acquitted. Both sides of America’s political divide now claim victory. Michael…
By Jedediah Britton-Purdy, Amy Kapczynski, David Singh Grewal (*) – Boston Review If we are to emerge from this era of crisis, we need legal thinking that operates on fundamentally different presumptions. We live in an era of intersecting crises—some new, some old but newly…
Viewpoint by Ramesh Jaura* – IDN-InDepthNews BERLIN | TOKYO (IDN) — Like the United Nations, the global community-based Buddhist organisation Soka Gakkai International (SGI) is a beacon of hope to a world shrouded by dark clouds of unprecedented crises. An international…
A reporter in Yangon and Rebecca Ratcliffe * – The Guardian Protesters compare date – 22.2.2021 – to 8 August 1988, when military cracked down on pro-democracy rallies Protesters across Myanmar have held a general strike, taking to the streets across the country and shutting…
Marina Hyde* – The Guardian This is about more than Facebook and news – it’s about the pursuit of power in a world where companies are stronger than countries You can say Mark Zuckerberg puts you in mind of a lot of things. An efit of a man police would like to speak to in…
By Roberto Savio* In a robustly entertaining – and thoroughly informative – book on the lighter side of the United Nations, Thalif Deen, a former UN Bureau Chief and Regional Director for Inter Press Service (IPS) news agency, has just published a book titled “No Comment –…
Organizations for the defense of freedom of expression, human rights institutions, journalists’ unions and reference media all over the world have shown growing concern about the autocratic decisions of the supposedly democratic governments of Hungary and Poland due to the…
Portugal Digital with Lusa News Agency The growth of the far-right in Europe, including in Portugal, is the result of increased transnational collaboration, mainly through the Internet and outside parties or organizations, a European report concludes. “While it is important to…
By Larry Jagan BANGKOK, Feb 17 2021 (IPS) – Myanmar’s top generals have begun the process to prevent Aung San Suu Kyi – the country’s popular civilian leader – from ever holding political power. Both she and president Win Myint were arraigned in a closed-door court…
