by Pedro Marin | Jun 23, 2022 | Activism, Brazil, Environment, Indigenous Resistance, Politics, Social Justice
In 2021, 37% of the total spending to stop deforestation was allocated to military actions.
by Kate Hudson | Jun 14, 2022 | Activism, Afghanistan, Africa, Algeria, Asia, Australia, Central America, China, Climate Change, Economics, Environment, Europe, Food, France, French Polynesia, History, Human Rights, India, Indigenous Resistance, Iraq, Israel, Libya, Middle East, Pakistan, Politics, Russia, South Africa, South America, Syria, Trade, Ukraine, United Kingdom, United States, War, Yemen
Massive spending by states on military production and destruction is a criminal waste of resources. The priorities of humanity are the fight against inequality and poverty.
by Vijay Prashad and Taroa Zúñiga Silva | Jun 14, 2022 | Activism, Colombia, Elections, History, Interview, Politics, War
An interview with María José Pizarro, whose father, Carlos Pizarro Leongómez, was a Colombian left-wing politician assassinated in 1990.
by Rosa Miriam Elizalde | Jun 9, 2022 | Activism, Cuba, Foreign Policy, Joe Biden, Latin America, Mexico, Nicaragua, United States, Venezuela
Meanwhile, the People’s Summit for Democracy stands up for the people of Latin America, and against the U.S. policy of isolationism.
by Claudia Webbe | Jun 7, 2022 | Activism, Afghanistan, Africa, Belarus, Eritrea, Europe, Ghana, History, Human Rights, Identity Politics, Immigration, Iraq, Israel, Law, Middle East, Politics, Russia, Rwanda, Social Justice, Syria, Ukraine, United Kingdom, United Nations, War
The othering of non-white, non-European people serves to diminish the reality of their suffering.
by Vijay Prashad | Jun 2, 2022 | Activism, Afghanistan, Africa, Algeria, Angola, Burkina Faso, Chad, Ethiopia, Europe, France, Germany, History, Israel, Libya, Mali, Mauritania, Morocco, Niger, Politics, South Africa, Sudan, Trade, Uganda, United Nations, United States, War
NATO’s war in Libya was its first major military operation in Africa, but it was not the first European military footprint on the continent.