Category: Opinions

Srecko Horvat/Jacobin 17 november 22 As wars ratchet up across the globe and the ecological crisis wreaks widespread havoc, internationalist politics is more necessary than ever. Cornel West explains why the fight for climate justice must join with an anti-militarist movement now. In 1992, four white policemen were acquitted by a jury of assaulting Rodney…

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Gordon Brown “There is no longer such thing as the international community,” a prominent African leader recently complained to me, lamenting that this week’s G20 would, like September’s UN general assembly, October’s IMF-World Bank meetings and this month’s Cop27, fail to combat the world’s food, energy, debt, inflation, currency, pollution and poverty crises. At the very moment…

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Nationalism is the ideology of our age. No wonder the world is in crisis” »

By Peter Schlosser and Michael Dorsey SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Nov 16 2022 (IPS) – Climate change is an existential threat to humans and our ability to thrive on a healthy planet. But when it comes to rising temperatures, the inability of humankind to slow emissions and limit warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius isn’t because we lack knowledge or need new…

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By Busani Bafana SHARM EL SHEIKH, Nov 16 2022 (IPS) – Climate change is worsening injustice globally, and the poor and vulnerable communities are the most affected. It is time the world acted on fulfilling human rights and building a liveable planet, says Yamide Dagnet, director for Climate Justice at Open Society Foundations. “We are so slow…

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The complete results of last Tuesday’s election are still trickling in and some major questions—such as which party will control the House—remain, but one thing is clear: the much-predicted “red wave” failed to materialize. Boston Review’s co editor-in-chief Deborah Chasman spoke with historian and BR contributing editor Robin D. G. Kelley about how to interpret…

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Tuesday turned out to be a surprisingly good day. But in Western states, there are warning signs that the Democratic coalition is brittle.By Sasha Abramsky We’d been warned for weeks by pollsters of a “red wave” in Tuesday’s elections, possibly even a late-breaking tsunami. Instead, the GOP ended up with a rather minor ocean disturbance,…

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Democratic voters don’t send Democratic politicians to Washington to give the Republicans what they want. They want that stuff shot down. TED RALL – NOV 9, 2022 Ou can’t blame the Democrats for spinning the fact that their losses fell short of worst-case scenarios. But elections are arithmetic, not calculus. A loss is a loss….

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After Tuesday, What Can Democrats Do Now?” »

Analysis by Ishaan Tharoor November 8, 2022 at 12:01 a.m. EST The idea of “competitive authoritarianism” has been around for two decades. It was coined by political scientists Steven Levitsky and Lucan Way in a 2002 essay in the Journal of Democracy to describe a particular phenomenon of “hybrid” regime that was coming into focus after the end…

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6 NOVEMBER 2022Nile Post News (Kampala)By Kenneth Kazibwe Government has extended the initial 21-day lockdown in the two districts of Mubende and Kassanda by an extra three weeks, until late this month as part of efforts to curb the spread of the Ebola virus. Last month, President Museveni announced a 21 day lockdown in the…

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Reckoning with Germany’s genocide in Namibia. Historical note: During the early 20th Century German colonial rule of Namibia, Adolf Hitler was a young lieutenant in the German army stationed there. He participated and “learned” from the genocidal attacks upon the Africans of Namibia. It was here he also studied how the white Americans pushed indigenous folk…

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