Elections

How Trump Could Turn the Most Challenging Election Since the Civil War into an Unprecedented Disaster

By David H. Freedman — Newsweek

Freedman – Newsweek Jamaal Bowman, a progressive, scored an upset victory over incumbent Eliot Engel in New York’s 16th Congressional District. The primary took place on June 23rd, but the contest wasn’t officially decided until more than three weeks later—and then only because…

3 August 2020 · 18 min read

Environment

The Plastic Pandemic

By Sonia Awale and Ramesh Kumar — The Nepali Times

By Sonia Awale and Ramesh Kumar – The Nepali Times(*) KATHMANDU, Aug 3 2020 – The coronavirus pandemic was a respite for nature everywhere. The air was cleaner, trekking trails were pristine, the summit of Mt Everest was deserted, and worldwide carbon emission dipped by -26%.

3 Aug 2020 · 6 min read

Corruption

Trump Can’t Delay the Election—So He’s Trying to Make It a Chaotic Mess

By John Nichols — The Nation

By John Nichols*- The Nation Trump is losing. So he’s lying. The way to counter his lies is with facts and an action plan for easy, safe, and fair voting on November 3. On the morning of July 30, 96 days before the November election that polls suggest he is likely to lose…

31 Jul 2020 · 7 min read

Economy / Finance

Why Bitcoin Is Not a Socialist’s Ally – Reply to Ben Arc

By Yanis Varoufakis

By Yanis Varoufakis* On 15th July, Ben Arc published in Bitcoin Magazine an open letter addressed to me in a bid to convince me that I should re-assess my rejection of Bitcoin as a force for good; as a bulwark for democratising capitalism and paving the ground for socialism…

31 Jul 2020 · 6 min read

Economy / Finance

Every Step the EU Takes Toward Financial Unity Sows New Seeds of Its Potential Collapse

By Marshall Auerback — Independent Media Institute

By Marshall Auerback* – Independent Media Institute Another “landmark” agreement in reality makes incremental progress, but at a cost of ignoring a ticking time bomb in France. Samuel Beckett’s “Waiting for Godot” is a play featuring two characters waiting for a character…

30 Jul 2020 · 13 min read

Health

Covid-19 is shrinking horizons for our holidays – perhaps for our lives too

Gaby Hinsliff* – The Guardian What if sticking more closely to home than usual is not a bug but a deliberate feature of life in Britain after coronavirus? We swam with seals in a cold, green sea, hiked to waterfalls in the drizzle and ate hot chips on a harbour wall in the…

30 Jul 2020 · 5 min read

Digital Age

A New Social Class: The Voluntary Workers of Social Networks

By Glauco Benigni The

By Glauco Benigni* The hierarchical and exploitative structure of the feudal era seems to have reappeared today on the Internet of the digital era. Regardless of any constitution and workers’ statute, neither politics nor trade unions are intervening. It is accepted that…

29 Jul 2020 · 12 min read

Democracy

Whether He’ll Leave Office If He Loses

By Democracy Now! World-renowned political dissident Noam Chomsky , linguist and author, is a laureate professor in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Arizona and professor emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he taught for more than…

29 Jul 2020 · 12 min read

Civil Society

Fight Pandemic, Not Windmills of the Mind

By Jomo Kwame Sundaram and Anis Chowdhury

By Jomo Kwame Sundaram and Anis Chowdhury (*) SYDNEY and KUALA LUMPUR, Jul 28 2020 (IPS) – With uneven progress in containing contagion, worsened by the breakdown in multilateral cooperation due to mounting US-China tensions, recovery from the Covid-19 recessions of the…

28 Jul 2020 · 5 min read

Civil rights

Trump Calls Portland Protesters 'Deranged Anarchists' as They Sue His Admin

By Chantal Da Silva — Newsweek

By Chantal Da Silva* – Newsweek President Donald Trump lashed out at protesters in Portland on Monday, branding them “sick and deranged Anarchists & Agitators” after they launched a lawsuit against his administration, accusing the Department of Homeland Security…

28 Jul 2020 · 3 min read