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UNITED NATIONS, Nov 01 (IPS) - The eastern region of Baalbek, Lebanon was believed to be a "safe zone" for residents, and refugees who had been displaced by the increased hostilities across the country. That changed on October 29, when...Friday, November 1, 2024 from Global Issues News Headlines for “Democracy”
NEW YORK, Nov 01 (IPS) - The United Nations, established in 1945 at the end of World War II, has sadly virtually outlived its usefulness as it commemorated its 79th anniversary due to its failure to reform itself and adjust to the new...Friday, November 1, 2024 from Global Issues News Headlines for “Democracy”
UNITED NATIONS, Nov 01 (IPS) - The United Nations continues to be virtually paralyzed—and remains politically impotent amidst two raging conflicts—as Russia and Israel keep defying the world body. The killings of civilians and the...Friday, November 1, 2024 from Democracy Now!
Headlines for November 01, 2024; Will Abortion Rights Decide 2024 Election? Amy Littlefield on Trump’s Misogyny & 10 Ballot Measures; Report from Wisconsin: John Nichols on Harris’s Madison Roots & Key Senate/House...Thursday, October 31, 2024 from Global Issues News Headlines for “Democracy”
NAIROBI, Oct 31 (IPS) - Global education is facing a critical moment amid severe setbacks. Millions of children are out of school, learning levels are falling, and millions are leaving school without the skills they need. New...Thursday, October 31, 2024 from Global Issues News Headlines for “Democracy”
ATLANTA, USA, Oct 31 (IPS) - The most solemn and terrifying words ever uttered are those inscribed over the gateway to Hell in Dante's Inferno: "Abandon all hope, ye who enter here!" Hope is essential for human survival both as...Thursday, October 31, 2024 from Global Issues News Headlines for “Democracy”
UNITED NATIONS, Oct 31 (IPS) - On October 28, the Israeli parliament voted to ban activity from the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) in Israel. Two bills were passed by the Knesset,...Thursday, October 31, 2024 from Global Issues News Headlines for “Democracy”
CALI, Columbia, Oct 31 (IPS) - José Aruna, a forest defender from Sud Kivu province in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), remembers the night in September 2019 when a group of heavily armed men barged into his house in the...Thursday, October 31, 2024 from Democracy Now!
Headlines for October 31, 2024; “Genocide as Colonial Erasure”: U.N. Expert Francesca Albanese on Israel’s “Intent to Destroy” Gaza; Bishop William Barber Endorses Harris, Says Faith Leaders Must Oppose...Wednesday, October 30, 2024 from Global Issues News Headlines for “Democracy”
NAIROBI, Kenya, Oct 30 (IPS) - Some of the creeping impacts of this triple crisis are possibly the most debilitating: Africa is the most severely impacted region by desertification and land degradation, with approximately 45% of its land...Wednesday, October 30, 2024 from Democracy Now!
Headlines for October 30, 2024; Report from Pennsylvania: Marc Lamont Hill on Harris’s Closing Speech & Dangers of a Trump Victory; Imara Jones: Transphobia Is “Key Pillar” of Trump’s Push for a...Tuesday, October 29, 2024 from Global Issues News Headlines for “Democracy”
CARACAS, Oct 29 (IPS) - Climate finance will be at the epicenter of the discussion at the UN Climate Change Conference 2024 (COP29). The focus will be on strengthening the fund and defining the conditions under which the countries of the...Tuesday, October 29, 2024 from Global Issues News Headlines for “Democracy”
SAN FRANCISCO, USA, Oct 29 (IPS) - The conclusion that Donald Trump is a fascist has gone mainstream, gaining wide publicity and affirmation in recent weeks. Such understanding is a problem for Trump and his boosters. Read the full...Tuesday, October 29, 2024 from Democracy Now!
Headlines for October 29, 2024; Puerto Rico Is an “Island of Garbage”: Outrage Grows over Trump’s Racist & Xenophobic NYC Rally; Ruth Ben-Ghiat: Trump’s Dehumanizing Rhetoric Is Adopting Franco’s...Monday, October 28, 2024 from Democracy Now!
Headlines for October 28, 2024; “This Carnage Needs to Stop”: Israel Bans Aid Groups from Gaza, Kills Over 1,000 in North Gaza Siege; “Save Us from Ourselves”: 3,000+ Israelis Call for Int’l Help to Pressure...Friday, October 25, 2024 from Democracy Now!
Headlines for October 25, 2024; “Worse and Worse”: Hospital Director in North Gaza Says Israeli Assault on Jabaliya Is Bloodiest Yet; “Forest of Noise”: Palestinian Poet Mosab Abu Toha on New Book, Relatives...Friday, October 25, 2024 from Democracy Now!
Part 2 of our in-depth interview with Palestinian writer Mosab Abu Toha, whose latest book of poetry is Forest of Noise.Thursday, October 24, 2024 from Democracy Now! Video
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Headlines for October 23, 2024; “We Have Lost All Credibility”: Hala Rharrit on Quitting State Dept. & Ending U.S. Complicity in Gaza; “Historic Opportunity”: New Pro-Decolonization Alliance Aims to Shake Up Puerto Rico...Tuesday, October 22, 2024 from Democracy Now!
Headlines for October 22, 2024; “The Gaza I Know Is Gone”: Israel’s Rampage Continues as Survivors Struggle for Food, Water, Safety; Naomi Klein: Israel Has Weaponized October 7 Trauma to Justify Its Genocide in Gaza;...Monday, October 21, 2024 from Democracy Now!
Headlines for October 21, 2024; “Collateral Damage”: Hundreds of Patients Trapped in North Gaza as Israel Intensifies Siege; Report from Beirut: Israel Bombs Banks, Attacks UNIFIL in Expanding War of Aggression; Will...Friday, October 18, 2024 from Democracy Now!
Headlines for October 18, 2024; Tareq Baconi on Death of Hamas Chief Sinwar & Why Killing Palestinian Leaders Won’t Pacify Resistance; Gideon Levy: Death of Sinwar Won’t End Israel’s War While U.S. Gives Netanyahu...Monday, July 29, 2024 from Democracy & Freedom Watch
The three lawsuits filed in the Constitutional Court of Georgia on the Law on “Transparency of Foreign Influence” will be combined into one proceeding, CCG Chairman Merab Turava said to the journalist on Monday, adding...Thursday, April 25, 2024 from Democracy & Freedom Watch
Tbilisi, DFWatch-Over a hundred non-governmental and media organizations declare their open disobedience to the foreign influence draft law initiated by the Georgian authorities and suspend all cooperation with the government...Wednesday, April 3, 2024 from Democracy & Freedom Watch
Georgian government, after a one-year forced pause and in the face of criticism both inside and outside the country, re-initiated the bill on “Agents of Foreign Influence”. The new initiative, titled as the draft law on...Friday, March 15, 2024 from Democracy & Freedom Watch
TBILISI, DFWatch–A woman from Moscow Oblast, who caused great anger among Vladimir Putin supporters by kicking out a Russian soldier fighting against Ukraine from her coffee shop, has moved to Tbilisi with only ‘two bags’, leaving...Friday, March 1, 2024 from Democracy & Freedom Watch
TBILISI, DFWatch–Georgian Dream is in the process of preparing a legislative initiative to “protect society from pseudo-liberal ideology” and its inevitable harmful consequences.” The country may face such a...Tuesday, February 20, 2024 from Democracy & Freedom Watch
TBILISI, DFWatch–The court of the “Donetsk People’s Republic” has sentenced a Georgian fighter Mamuka Gatserelia to life imprisonment for killing three Russian infantrymen, the General Prosecutor’s Office of...Wednesday, February 14, 2024 from Democracy & Freedom Watch
TBILISI, DFWatch–Russian President Vladimir Putin has suggested his country might exchange American journalist Evan Gershkovich for a Russian assassin jailed in Germany. Speaking to former Fox News host Tucker Carlson in a...Monday, January 29, 2024 from Democracy & Freedom Watch
TBILISI, DFWatch–After Georgian Dream founder Bidzina Ivanishvili returned to public politics in late December, everyone in Georgia expected major upheavals in the government, although only a small number of commentators predicted...Tuesday, January 23, 2024 from Democracy & Freedom Watch
TBILISI, DFWatch–More than 700 people were detained on charges of crossing the de facto border between Abkhazia and Georgia in 2023, states security service of the breakaway Abkhazia. Most of them were punished administratively, and...Monday, January 22, 2024 from Democracy & Freedom Watch
TBILISI, DFWatch–Dutch low-cost airline, Transavia, is starting to operate in the Georgian market. Tickets can currently be purchased on the company’s website for flights from late April. During the summer navigation season of...Wednesday, December 18, 2019 from openDemocracy -
The IMF is backing a tax reform bill in Ecuador that will enable capital flight and further austerity.Wednesday, December 18, 2019 from openDemocracy -
Policies in practice are rarely the same as they are on paper. The IOM would do well to remember that.Tuesday, December 17, 2019 from openDemocracy -
Why are Syrian documentaries detached from the Syrian audience?Tuesday, December 17, 2019 from openDemocracy -
Seven years ago, Georgian Dream swept to power on the promise of ending systemic police violence. They have failed.Tuesday, December 17, 2019 from openDemocracy -
The goal set by the national government is that by 2023 the use of mercury in Colombia will be completely stopped. The protective action initiated by indigenous communities could be a useful tool to follow this up. EspañolTuesday, December 17, 2019 from openDemocracy -
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro’s administration is embarking on a project of cultural and historical revision.Tuesday, December 17, 2019 from openDemocracy -
AIDAN, Betsy DeVos’ proposed chatbot, signals that the Department of Education remains open for business.Tuesday, December 17, 2019 from openDemocracy -
“Mankind was my business. The common welfare was my business. Charity, mercy, forbearance and benevolence were all my business.”Tuesday, December 17, 2019 from openDemocracy -
Labour Party’s abject failure to address anti-Semitism has garnered headlines, but hatred of Muslims is even more rampant in Britain—and the prime minister and his party have contributed to making it socially acceptable.Monday, December 16, 2019 from openDemocracy -
Emel Mathlouthi’s new album is the soundtrack of the apocalypse.Tuesday, May 31, 2016 from BBC Democracy Live - Home
Latest live coverage of the UK's parliaments and assembliesFriday, May 27, 2016 from Democracy Now! Blog
Extended interview with Setsuko Thurlow, who survived the Hiroshima atomic bombing, about the bombing of 1945 and her push to eliminate nuclear weapons. On August 6, 1945, Thurlow was at school in Hiroshima when the U.S. dropped the...Friday, May 27, 2016 from Democracy Now! Blog
Holocaust survivor and peace activist Hedy Epstein has died at the age of 91. Epstein was born in Germany and left in 1939 on a Kindertransport to England. Her parents died in Auschwitz. She later returned to Germany to work as a...Thursday, May 26, 2016 from Democracy Now! Blog
By Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan Thursday, Jan. 28, was a cold morning in Durham, North Carolina. Wildin David Guillen Acosta went outside to head to school, but never made it. He was thrown to the ground and arrested by agents from...Wednesday, May 25, 2016 from Democracy Now! Blog
Amy Goodman appears on the PBS show MetroFocus and breaks down all that is wrong with the media’s coverage of Election 2016. Watch the Full InterviewTuesday, May 24, 2016 from Democracy Now! Blog
NPR's Scott Simon asks Amy Goodman about Bernie Sanders' chances of getting the delegates he needs to claim the Democratic nomination. Download MP3 || Read the transcriptThursday, May 19, 2016 from Democracy Now! Blog
By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan “Welcome to Fort McMurray. We have the energy,” reads the signs as one enters this northern deep-woods outpost at the center of the Alberta tar sands petroleum-extraction zone. The forests surrounding...Monday, May 16, 2016 from Democracy Now! Blog
In Part 2 of our wide-ranging conversation with the world-renowned dissident Noam Chomsky, we talk about the conflict in Syria, the rise of ISIS , Saudi Arabia, the political crisis in Brazil, the passing of the pioneering lawyer Michael...