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Stephanie Savell I’m co-director of the Costs of War Project at Brown University’s Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs, founded by Catherine Lutz and Neta Crawford in 2011, on the 10th anniversary of the invasion of Afghanistan. Their goal: to draw attention to the hidden and unacknowledged costs of our counterterror wars in…
M.K. Bhadrakumar The manner in which US President Donald Trump’s administration is ramming a peace settlement down Afghanistan’s throat is disconcerting. Delhi’s silence is more so. One shudders to think that comprador elements in the Indian establishment could be silently collaborating with the US project, in the shadow of Trump’s recent trip to visit…
Boaventura Monjane Due to the illegal sanctions imposed on the country by the United States and its allies, the import of food, seeds, fertilisers, machinery and other basic necessities has been restricted in Venezuela. As a result, food production registered a 60 percent decrease at the national level, but small and medium-scale farmers in…
Dave Lindorff With Bernie Sanders now having won New Hampshire (and probably Iowa, where he won the popular vote) and confirmed his position as the frontrunner for president in the Democratic Party primaries (the New York Times’ poll guru Nate Silver is giving him a better than 40% chance of gaining enough delegates by…
Courtesy: Telesur Prime Minister Sanna Marin spoke in favor of reducing working days and working hours during the 120th-anniversary ceremony of the founding of the Social Democratic Party (SDP) in Turku, Finland. “Four-day work week, six-hour day. Why couldn’t this be the next step? Is eight hours the absolute truth?” the Finnish Prime…
Jessicah Pierre As we celebrate the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr., it’s natural to remember his courageous advocacy for racial equity. But before he was assassinated, King had also begun to broaden his efforts to unify people around economic justice. That’s worth remembering today. In December 1967, King, the Southern Christian…
Ellen Brown While US advocates and local politicians struggle to get their first public banks chartered, Mexico’s new president has begun construction on 2,700 branches of a government-owned bank to be completed in 2021, when it will be the largest bank in the country. At a press conference on Jan. 6, he said the…
Jason Hickel In my research I have argued that rising global inequality is driven in large part by power imbalances in the global economy, in that rich countries have disproportionate influence when it comes to setting the rules of international trade and finance. Nowhere is this problem more apparent than when it comes…
Daniel Kovalik In the aftermath of the US invasion of Iraq in 2003—an invasion which many Iraqis believe left their country in the worst condition it has been since the Mongol invasion of 1258—there was much discussion in the media about the Bush Administration’s goal for “nation-building” in that country. Of course, if…
Alan MacLeod January 21, 2020: Nationwide protests against the government of Emanuel Macron entered their seventh continuous week today in France, as between 187,000 (a government estimate) and 250,000 people (the unions’ count) took to the streets to oppose Macron’s plans to radically alter the country’s pension plan, seen by many as the crown…
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