By John Nichols* – The Nation It has rewritten media-ownership rules to benefit giant corporations, including the pro-Trump Sinclair Broadcasting. Eighty years ago, the dawn of the modern communications age coincided with the rise of authoritarian leaders who controlled and…
By NORIMITSU ONISHI and JEFFREY MOYONOV – The New York Times HARARE, Zimbabwe — Robert Mugabe, who has ruled Zimbabwe since independence in 1980, resigned as president on Tuesday shortly after lawmakers began impeachment proceedings against him, according to the speaker of…
By DAVID SCOTT MATHIESON* – Asia Times Myanmar de facto leader conflated illegal migration with terrorism in a keynote speech, adding her voice to the Islamophobia that has justified persecution of the Rohingya YANGON, NOVEMBER 21, 2017 . Myanmar’s increasingly…
BY ISHAAN THAROOR – The Washington Post Last week in Bonn, the former capital of West Germany, the most unwelcome attendees at a U.n. summit on climate policy may have been the members of the delegation representing the Trump administration. President Trump, after all, made a…
Panneerselvan – The Hindu A collective effort is needed to retrieve the information space For the last couple of years, Cathy O’Neil, a data scientist and author of the bookWeapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy , has been speaking…
Analysis, MIKAELA NHONDO ERSKOG – The Daily Maverick, Johannesburg Bulking military tanks and armed troops have halted the usual blustering traffic and street vending activities down Samora Machel Avenue in central Harare. Leaders of the ruling party have reportedly been…
By Pascal Laureyn PHNOM PENH, Nov 17 2017 (IPS) – The government had an almost paranoid fear of protests. A square kilometer around the Supreme Court was barricaded and off limits to the public.
By David Meyer – Fortune The richest 1% now owns more than half of all the world’s household wealth, according to analysts at Credit Suisse. And they say inequality is only going to get worse over the coming years, with millennials having a particularly tough time.
Burrowes* In a recent incident in the United States, yet another unarmed man was shot dead by police after opening his front door in response to their knock. The police were going to serve an arrest warrant on a domestic violence suspect – the man’s neighbour – but went to the…
By Ishaan Tharoor* – The Washington Post All things considered, President Trump’s lengthy five-country trip to Asia was not the total fiasco some feared it could be. The president had a chummy swing through Japan and then delivered a well-received speech before the South Korean…
