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In Europe, the Age of Deportations Has Begun

Jouke Huijzer transform! europe
Heeding far-right calls for stricter migration controls will not halt the far right’s rise. The resignation of Keir Starmer, the Danish Social Democrats’ recent electoral defeat, and the Dutch Socialist Party’s string of losses all affirm this

How the Global Food Economy Is Killing Children

Vijay Prashad Tricontinental
Every year unsafe food causes 866 million illnesses and 1.5 million deaths, with young children suffering nearly a third of all cases of foodborne disease-the predictable outcome of a food economy organised around profit rather than the right to food

El Salvador: Between Tourism and Terror

Manuel Pérez-Rocha i Institute for Policy Studies
Nayib Bukele’s El Salvador welcomes tourists with open arms while ruthlessly imprisoning its own people.

Healing Iran’s Wounds

Ali Abdi Socialist Project
In these days of war, when Red Crescent workers pull someone from beneath the rubble, they do not ask that person’s political or religious beliefs. Their service is universal, directed toward the preservation of all Iranian lives.

Sovereignty on Trial: Ecuador, the UAE, and the Curse of Corporate Courts

Mario Osorio, Pedro Labayen Herrera Center for Economic and Policy Research
Ecuador remains trapped in a geopolitical paradox, needing investment in education, science, and technology to escape the “middle-income trap.” Recent leaders have chosen maximizing short term rents through the extraction of oil and minerals.

The Innocence Trap: Survival Should Not Require Sainthood

Andrea Pitzer Degenerate Art
The answer is not just to get rid of an individual official. It's to insist on human rights for everyone, and to create a system in which punishment is not the central and defining feature of government for whole sectors of the U.S. population.

The US Warships off Venezuela Aren’t There To Fight Drugs

Guillaume Long Center for Economic and Policy Research
The military build-up off Venezuela’s coast is a slippery slope towards an armed conflagration, far greater suffering for the Venezuelan people, regional destabilization and a potential political quagmire for the United States
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