Commerce

3 former trainees’ interview, back home after Technical Intern Training Programme (TITP)

by DEVNET JAPAN Fumiyasu Akegawa, Chair and CEO of Devnet International Association Technical Intern Training Programme (TITP), supported by Japanese government, has been built with the aim to help young people from developing countries acquire technological skills, or knowledge…

15 November 2020 · 4 min read

Economy / Finance

Things May Get Worse Before They Get Better for the U.S.

By Walden Bello — Foreign

By Walden Bello* – Foreign Policy in Focus For many, Trump’s ouster is a relief. But his steadfast support among white voters puts his party on a crash course with democracy.

13 Nov 2020 · 7 min read

Economy / Finance

Why 2020 Was the ‘Precarity Election’

By Albena Azmanova and Marshall Auerback

By Albena Azmanova and Marshall Auerback (*) – Independent Media Institute Neither political party has truly addressed the issue of economic security, which is why the country remains a house divided against itself While Joe Biden will be America’s next president, the 2020…

13 Nov 2020 · 13 min read

Civil rights

What the Biden administration would do differently on covid-19

The Economist Today And how much difference it would make PARTISANSHIP HAS long coloured American perceptions of covid-19. Even so, the contrast between the top echelons of the main parties was striking on November 9th, the day the country passed 10m recorded cases of the…

12 Nov 2020 · 5 min read

culture

Bolsonaro’s War Against Reason

Gianpaolo Baiocchi, Marcelo K. Silva (*) – Boston Review The Brazilian president’s offensive against universities threatens democracy and recalls the dark years of the country’s dictatorship.

12 Nov 2020 · 12 min read

Democracy

Biden’s Dilemma

By George Friedman — Geopolitical Futures

By George Friedman* – Geopolitical Futures The election is over, and barring major fraud or error, Joe Biden will be the next president of the United States. He begins as a weak candidate.

11 Nov 2020 · 6 min read

Civil Society

The Guardian view on the Covid vaccine breakthrough: making it work

Editorial At last, there is hope of an end to this pandemic. Scientists appear to have performed an amazing feat, the rest of us must do our best too Medicine is only partly a matter of science; it is, very much, the business of people.

11 Nov 2020 · 4 min read

Democracy

Trump is gone, But Trumpism remains

By Roberto Savio

By Roberto Savio* Now it is clear that Joe Biden is the new president of the United States. It is unlikely that Donald Trump’s legal manoeuvring will change the election results, as when a conservative Supreme Court in 2000 decided in favour of George Bush over Al Gore, who lost…

10 Nov 2020 · 18 min read

Health

Pfizer’s and BioNTech’s vaccine is the start of the end of the pandemic

The Economist The shot that rang across the world Its 90% effectiveness is as good as it gets, and bodes well for other vaccines. But getting them quickly to the right people will be hard DURING THIS coronavirus-blighted year, through many difficult days of isolation and fear…

10 Nov 2020 · 6 min read

Civil rights

Hoping for a return to normal after Trump? That's the last thing we need

By Yanis Varoufakis — The Guardian

By Yanis Varoufakis* – The Guardian The discontent that swept Trump to power in 2016 has not gone away. To pretend like it has will only invite future disaster Normalcy and the restoration of a modicum of decorum to the White House: that is what many elite supporters of Joe…

9 Nov 2020 · 7 min read