Every day, entrepreneurs in Brazil cut down more of the Amazon to produce cheap soybeans for animals in Europe and America. Vietnam, Indonesia and Malaysia tear up their forests to produce cheap coffee and palm oil for the world.
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The Pandemic: Half a million lives lost in U.S., more than the two World Wars and Vietnam War combined
Over half a million people have died of coronavirus in the U.S. Grasping the enormity–half a million people gone–is difficult to visualize.
Catastrophe and Utopia: Kim Stanley Robinson’s ‘Ministry for the Future’
We need no longer speculate about whether we live in a climate emergency. The scientific verdict has been out for some time now, each year’s report grimmer than the last.
Hundreds of law students announce boycott of Chevron law firm Seward & Kissel for “unethical” private prosecution of human rights attorney Steven Donziger
Students from over 50 leading U.S. law schools–including Stanford, Harvard, Yale, and New York University–have announced a recruiting boycott of a prominent Chevron law firm to protest its “unethical” private prosecution of U.S. human rights lawyer Steven Donziger after he helped win a $9.5 billion pollution judgment against Chevron.
Cuba has assisted almost one third of the world’s population in health care
In the six decades of Cuban medical collaboration abroad, its health personnel have assisted 1.988 billion people in the world, almost a third of mankind, said Dr. Jorge Delgado Bustillo, director of the Central Unit for Medical Cooperation (UCCM).
Human nature is no barrier to socialism
Of all the reasons to be angry during the pandemic—the profit-first response of governments, the neglected state of the health system, the environmental crisis underpinning the disaster, the millions dead—it has been people buying extra toilet paper that has elicited the most outrage.
![Dr. Kwame Nkrumah, former Prime Minister of Ghana and Pan-Africanist visionary who was voted as “Africa’s Man of the Millennium.” [Source: africanglobe.net]](https://mronline.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/kwamen-200x200.png "How did a fateful CIA coup—executed 55 years ago this February 24—doom much of sub-Saharan Africa?")
How did a fateful CIA coup—executed 55 years ago this February 24—doom much of sub-Saharan Africa?
Fifty-five years ago on this day, the fate of Africa was irrevocably altered when the CIA sponsored a 1966 coup d’état against Dr. Kwame Nkrumah, former Prime Minister of Ghana and Pan-Africanist visionary who was voted as “Africa’s Man of the Millennium.”
Does the West repeating claims of China committing genocide in Xinjiang reify it?
The Jewish Virtual Library quotes Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels as having said: “If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it.”
Medical racism has shaped U.S. policies for centuries
The link between the 1793 yellow fever epidemic and the coronavirus.
Ice and blood in Texas
Avoidable deaths, not avoided.
Demographic characteristics of people receiving COVID-19 vaccinations in the United States
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is working with states to provide more information on the demographic characteristics of vaccinated people.
Bhima Koregaon: Varavara Rao gets bail on medical grounds for six months
Just as the Bombay HC pronounced the verdict, the additional solicitor general sought a stay on the order for three weeks. However, the court rejected it.
Partners: China and Cuba
In the 1960s, the main forms of the Chinese assistance offered to Cuba were preferential trade and interest-free loans. From 1961 to 1965, China gave Cuba an interest-free loan of 60 million U.S. dollars.
Cold truth: The Texas freeze is a catastrophe of the Free Market
Texas’s electricity market “reforms” made the current crisis inevitable.
Role of NGOs in promoting neo-Colonialism
There are literally thousands of NGOs, the better known being Oxfam, Greenpeace, and Amnesty International.
‘Only the strong will survive’: Texas city mayor resigns for lashing out at residents asking for help during deadly storm
The now former mayor of Colorado City, Texas, Tim Boyd, has resigned after two Facebook posts telling people needing help and without electricity that they are on their own.
Taxes on the rich: One-sixth of what they used to be
A new IPS briefing paper highlights the unique role of tax policy in wealth concentration.
Leading from the front: The role of women in Farmers’ movement
As lakhs of farmers continue their protest against the new farm legislations introduced by the Modi government, a remarkable number of women are not only braving the rough weather by participating in these demonstrations but are also leading from the front.
Vulture Funds plan to use the Pandemic to pillage the Global Economy
Before the pandemic, private equity had amassed $2.5 trillion–more than the GDP of Italy–in ‘dry powder,’ waiting for distressed assets to plunder. Covid-19 provided them with the perfect opportunity.
GameStop and Share Markets: Between the bad and the ugly, there is no G
The recent GameStop story coming out of the U.S. pushed arcane financial dealings into a prominence they rarely enjoy. The public was introduced to weird concepts such as “short selling and short squeezes” and, for a while, they are likely to be part of many Zoom conversations.
