Tag: current affairs – international

Oxfam report: 10 Billionaires Made Enough Money During The Pandemic To Vaccinate The Entire World

The coronavirus recession is over, if you ask the billionaires of the world. According to a report released Monday by Oxfam, the top 1,000 billionaires collectively lost about 30% of their wealth when COVID-19 restrictions stalled global economies in March. By the end of November, they’d made it all back. For the world’s richest, it… Read More Oxfam report: 10 Billionaires Made Enough Money During The Pandemic To Vaccinate The Entire World

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Belarus: Police raid homes of journalists, activists // ‘Nowadays I often cry’ An interview with Victor Martinovich

Police in Belarus carried out 22 raids on the homes and offices of journalists, human rights activists and trade union members on Tuesday. The raids were part of an investigation into mass anti-government protests, officials said. The former Soviet nation has been gripped by weekend protests ever since strongman President Alexander Lukashenko claimed victory in… Read More Belarus: Police raid homes of journalists, activists // ‘Nowadays I often cry’ An interview with Victor Martinovich

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DAVID CORN: The greatest political crime in American history

While campaigning in Iowa in early 2016, Donald Trump proclaimed, “I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody, and I wouldn’t lose any voters, okay. It’s, like, incredible.” Trump essentially did that in the last days of his presidency. He promoted a January 6 rally for what he called a “wild” day… Read More DAVID CORN: The greatest political crime in American history

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How America’s food giants swallowed the family farms / The Big Tech takeover of agriculture is dangerous / (Video) The reason the world is running out of farmers

When the vast expanse of rural Iowa was carved up for settlers in the 19th century, it was often divided into 160-acre lots. Four farms made a square mile, with a crisscross of dead-straight roads marking the boundaries like a sprawling chess board. Within each square, generations of families tended pigs and cattle, grew oats… Read More How America’s food giants swallowed the family farms / The Big Tech takeover of agriculture is dangerous / (Video) The reason the world is running out of farmers

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Molly Ball: The Secret History of the Shadow Campaign That Saved America's 2020 Election

A weird thing happened right after the Nov. 3 election: nothing. The nation was braced for chaos. Liberal groups had vowed to take to the streets, planning hundreds of protests across the country. Right-wing militias were girding for battle. In a poll before Election Day, 75% of Americans voiced concern about violence. Instead, an eerie quiet… Read More Molly Ball: The Secret History of the Shadow Campaign That Saved America's 2020 Election

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A moment of moral and political nihilism: Theologian Adam Kotsko on our current crisis

Rather than rail against the overheated apocalyptic rhetoric of others, Kotsko undertook his own cool-eyed, analytical version, saying, “I will follow my prophetic and apostolic forebears in diagnosing the root cause of that corruption and decadence as a failure to recognize the truth, which has resulted in a thoroughgoing moral and political nihilism.”..    Neoliberalism… Read More A moment of moral and political nihilism: Theologian Adam Kotsko on our current crisis

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Godfrey Hodgson: a legendary author who predicted America’s unravelling

The legendary Godfrey Hodgson, author of essential books and reports on the US, a journalist with The Observer and then The Sunday Times Insight Team when they were in their prime, and in later life the head of the fellowships programme at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at Oxford University, has died,… Read More Godfrey Hodgson: a legendary author who predicted America’s unravelling

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Andrew Rawnsley: The bill for Boris Johnson’s Brexit is coming in and it’s punishingly steep

I smiled to see that Roger Daltrey, the Leave-supporting lead singer of the Who, has joined the chorus of rock stars furious that the post-Brexit visa rules will ruin their prospects of touring across the Channel. Mr Daltrey will have to sing Won’t Get Fooled Again to himself before moving on to Boris the Spider and… Read More Andrew Rawnsley: The bill for Boris Johnson’s Brexit is coming in and it’s punishingly steep

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Michael Moore On Exiting Donald Trump: “We Are Not Done With Him … He Must Pay For His Actions”

Moore can breathe a sigh of relief that one of his predictions didn’t come to 100% fruition. In a Democracy Now! interview in December, the Fahrenheit 11/9 filmmaker said, based on his temperature of the flyover states: “If the vote were today, I believe, he would win the electoral states that he would need, because, living out there, I… Read More Michael Moore On Exiting Donald Trump: “We Are Not Done With Him … He Must Pay For His Actions”

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