By Thalif Deen* UNITED NATIONS, Sep 7 2020 (IPS) – The COVID-19 pandemic has upended the lives of millions of people worldwide, accounted for over 869,000 deaths, destabilised the global economy and triggered a marked rise in poverty and hunger in the developing world. But the…
By Medea Benjamin and Leonardo Flores (*) Election season is a difficult time to develop good policies towards Latin America, since both Democrats and Republicans cater to the small, but organized, conservative factions of the Latinx community in Florida, vying for their…
By Giles Tremlett* – The Guardian During the 1970s and 80s, eight US-backed military dictatorships jointly plotted the cross-border kidnap, torture, rape and murder of hundreds of their political opponents. Now some of the perpetrators are finally facing justice The last time…
By Hazel Henderson* – Ethical Markets Markets are ubiquitous in all human societies. Since earliest times, when they were conducted using shells, wampum, cattle, or in rituals and potlatches, markets evolved using metal coins, silver and gold, then…
By Eric Alterman* – The Nation Brian Stelter’s book Hoax gets half the story about the toadies of cable news. Donald Trump has a few things in common with Joseph Stalin. In some ways, the comparison is an injustice to both men: Stalin was not a moron, grifter, or alleged…
InsightHungary!!! (*) Several hundred students of the prestigious University of Theatre and Film Arts (SzFE) in Budapest occupied a campus building on Monday amid a struggle with the government over the university’s autonomy. SzFE leaders – including the acting rector…
By Sonali Kolhatkar* – Independent Media Institute Trump offers specific promises and doesn’t bother smoothing his rough edges. In contrast, Biden offers “decency” and other character traits without bold and concrete pledges The last four years have been deeply…
ScienceDaily Source: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, News Bureau Researchers have demonstrated a prototype of a rapid COVID-19 molecular test and a simple-to-use, portable instrument for reading the results with a smartphone in 30 minutes, which could enable…
By Prabir Purkayastha* – Independent Media Institute The problem of hate news is built into the genes of big digital monopolies like Facebook. We need to break up these monopolies and regulate them as the new public utilities of the digital age.
Sept. 1, 2020 Next January the World Social Forum will turn 20 years old. Its appearance in 2001, summoning the various social movements, activists and intellectuals to confront the prevailing neoliberalism, was a worldwide event. From this beginning, there were many…
