By Vijay Prashad* – Independent Media Institute Noam Chomsky recently celebrated his 91st birthday. As an homage to Noam, I spent the day with one of his lesser-known books—The Backroom Boys (1973).
By Ignacio Saiz* NEW YORK, Dec 10 2019 (IPS) – Human rights advocates should be as concerned with the economic injustices giving rise to recent worldwide demonstrations as with the repressive responses to them. In recent weeks, an extraordinary wave of mass protests has…
By Francesco Martone* More than 20 years have passed since the United Nations adopted a Declaration on Human Rights Defenders that acknowledged the role of individuals and collectives that struggle to protect human rights. Since then, multiple initiatives have unfurled and…
By Naveed Jamali* – Newsweek 12/6/19 – With the announcement by Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Thursday that she instructed key House chairmen to draft articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump, the expected outcome of the inquiry has been formalized. But for many…
By Farhana Haque Rahman * ROME, Nov 2019 (IPS) – Mottled and reddish, the Lake Oku puddle frog has made its tragic debut on the Red List, a rapidly expanding roll call of threatened species. It was once abundant in the Kilum-Ijim rainforest of Cameroon but…
By Rebecca Gordon* – TomDispatch Fruits of the Twin Roots of Evil: Slavery and Imperial Expansion On the Thursday of the second week of the House Intelligence Committee’s impeachment hearings, former U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara had a special guest on his weekly podcast…
By Jan Lundius* STOCKHOLM / ROME, Dec 6 2019 (IPS) – While opening a newspaper or watching a TV program we are every day made aware of the plights of irregular migrants. Some recent examples among many – on 24 October, 39 Chinese nationals were found dead in a lorry trailer in…
Editorial The prime minister kept a calculated distance from the US president at the Nato summit because he knows their similarities play badly with voters A US president’s low-key exit from a Nato summit, skipping the traditional press conference, would once have been perceived…
By George Friedman* – Geopolitical Futures From Hong Kong to Tehran to Buenos Aires, the world appears to be destabilizing. The question that has been raised is whether there is an underlying cause triggering this global unrest. On the surface, the answer to that ought to be no.
By Karin Pettersson* STOCKHOLM, Dec 3 2019 (IPS) – The news-media industry has long lamented how the digital revolution has broken its business models. Today, a majority of digital advertising money goes to Facebook and Google, and media companies are struggling to reinvent…
