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
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
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.
A system of concentration camps is being built and it's time the nation reckon with this monstrosity before any more people are killed. ICE detention camps now threaten to become a central instrument of repression under the Trump administration.
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 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 dismissal of a a renowned health leader who refused to ignore Palestine highlights false claims of universality in human rights, global health and academia. Mary Bassett’s removal is an act of cowardice amid fascist pressure.
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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