By Steve Phillips* – The Nation Is the president of the United States a racist? The short answer is yes, but the question itself actually misses the mark and is dangerously misdirected for those who want to redress the ongoing consequences of racism in America. Since January, a…
By Emilio Godoy MEXICO CITY, Feb 20 2019 (IPS) – “We’re in a very difficult situation. There is militarisation at a regional level, and gender-based violence. We are at risk, we cannot silence that,” Aura Lolita Chávez, an indigenous woman from Guatemala, complained at a meeting…
Jean-Pierre Vettovaglia* A spark that lit a fire. The increase of the fuel tax was too much of a sacrifice imposed on the modest French homes invisible from the Élysée palace: suburbs and rural France!
By Roberto Savio* Rome, Feb., 2019 – I have been a member of the first international party: the Transnational Radical Party, founded in 1956 by Marco Pannella and Emma Bonino. Then in 1988, I was a wetness of the large protest, in Berlin West, against the meeting of the…
By Jomo Kwame Sundaram* KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, Feb 19 2019 (IPS) – For two centuries, all too many discussions about hunger and resource scarcity has been haunted by the ghost of Parson Thomas Malthus. Malthus warned that rising populations would exhaust resources, especially…
By Jan Lundius* STOCKHOLM / ROME, Feb 18 2019 (IPS) – Roma, a 2018 Mexican film written and directed by Alfonso Cuarón, is currently on a triumphal journey through the world. It won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival, the best director and best foreign language film at…
By Simon Jenkins* – The Guardian A Commons report lays bare horrifying abuses. But the UK is no closer to regulating the far-too-powerful tech industry Death threats, bullying, mental torture, privacy invasion, election rigging, fake news, monopoly abuse: as was said of a…
By Keith Bradsher* – The New York Times BEIJING — Talks between the United States and China to end their trade war will continue in Washington next week, officials from both countries said on Friday, hours after high-level negotiations between American and Chinese diplomats…
By Tom Engelhardt* – TomDispatch Veni, Vidi, Tweeti (I Came, I Saw, I Tweeted) . An Obituary for the Republic What dreamers they were!
By Vincent Auger*, Opinion – The Globe Post Eighteen months after being driven from their homes in Myanmar by what U.n. officials described as a campaign of genocidal violence by the military, the situation facing Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh remains perilous. Hundreds of…
