Namibian Olympic Sprinters Blunted by World Athletics’ ‘Caster Semenya Rule’
The Olympic regulation on naturally occurring testosterone removes two phenoms from the 400-meter, draws a nation’s ire and sparks questions about fairness.
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Louise Michel: the Revolutionary Woman Who Led the Paris Commune
Of all the women who actively participated in the Paris Commune, including prominent political thinkers and organisers, such as Elizabeth Dmitrieff, Andre Leo, and Nathalie Lemel, the name which is remembered most in association with the Commune is that of Louise Michel.
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Brazil Rallies Against Bolsonaro as He Faces Court-Ordered Criminal Probe in ‘CovaxinGate’
A day after a judge of the Supreme Federal Court ordered a criminal investigation against Jair Bolsonaro in the Covaxin scandal, hundreds of thousands of Brazilians took to the streets in 350 cities and towns to protest against the government and demand that the president be impeached.
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Colombia: Between Biden’s Anxiety and Uribe’s Disruption
The United States Department of State is observing with great concern that movements in Latin America have begun to take place that go beyond its control and that could affect its system of regional domination.
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Statues, Statues, They All Fall Down
European monuments to historic slavers and colonizers are the latest victims of rising protests for justice.
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Fighting for Survival, Building for Power
For members of ‘nou pap Dòmi’, a collective within Haiti’s petroChallengers movement, the anti-corruption struggle is a space to imagine the kind of society they seek to create.
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Interventionism Gave Us Afghanistan and Iraq
As the US withdraws its troops from Afghanistan, those supporting the US intervention justify it by pointing to the 9/11 attacks. But that is not true. Pre-9/11 interventionism is what brought about the 9/11 attacks, which were then used as the excuse for more interventionism.
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Can Humanity Prevent War from Ever Happening Again?
While conflict and war have written much of modern human history, they offer an incomplete narrative. Anthropological evidence suggests war is not innate to humanity. An interview with Doug P. Fry about his work studying peace systems and their potentially global implications.
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U.S. Again Bombs Nations on Other Side of the World in ‘Self-Defense’
The U.S. is again illegally bombing nations on the other side of the planet which it has invaded and occupied and branded this murderous aggression as “defensive”.
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National Strike in Colombia Completes Two Months
The national strike, which began in rejection of a tax reform bill, has transformed into a national struggle against the far-right government of President Ivan Duque and his neoliberal and oppressive policies.
