Headlines for March 28, 2023; Palestinians to Pay the Price as Netanyahu Pauses Judicial Overhaul While Further Empowering Far Right; Nashville Mourns 6 Killed in 129th U.S. Mass Shooting This Year, After Tennessee Loosens Gun Laws;...
Headlines for March 27, 2023; Israeli Protests Intensify over Netanyahu Gov’t Weakening Judiciary as Palestinian Rights Ignored; U.N. Warns of Water Wars as 2 Billion People Lack Clean Water with Africa and Middle East Hardest Hit;...
Mar 24 (IPS) - The author is an Afghanistan-based female journalist, trained with Finnish support before the Taliban take-over. Her identity is withheld for security reasons.Afghan girls have been denied the right to attend school and...
Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili, whom the opposition and Western politicians often accuse of populist rhetoric, said during his speech in the parliament Friday that government saved the country from “Ukrainization“, and...
STOCKHOLM, Sweden, Mar 24 (IPS) - Over the past two decades Iraq has been affected by several waves of intense conflict and violence. The 2003 invasion of Iraq by a multinational coalition led by the United States and United Kingdom...
Headlines for March 24, 2023; “France Is Furious”: Anger Grows at Macron for Raising Retirement Age as Millions Strike & Protest; Rep. Ro Khanna on Regulating Banks, TikTok, China, Ukraine & His Vote on the...
SAN SALVADOR, Mar 24 (IPS) - An open hearing in the Inter-American Court of Human Rights in the Beatriz v. El Salvador case is raising hopes that this country and other Latin American nations might overturn or at least mitigate the...
BIARRITZ, France, Mar 23 (IPS) - The woman we're meeting in a house on the outskirts of Biarritz -800 kilometres southwest of Paris- is a university professor, the author of several books and hundreds of articles, and a well-known human...
OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso, Mar 23 (IPS) - Over a million children in Burkina Faso are currently affected by school closures with 6,134 academic institutions shut as of February 2023, an increase of over 40 per cent since the end of the...
SYDNEY, Mar 23 (IPS) - Elaine Pearson is Asia director at Human Rights Watch“The physical torture was merciless,” said one man, “so we had no option but to present ourselves to the court based on demands and their statements.” Read the...
Headlines for March 23, 2023; A Police Killing Inside a Hospital: Ben Crump on Death of Irvo Otieno During Mental Health Crisis; “Disaster”: Iraqi Journalist Ghaith Abdul-Ahad on U.S. Invasion, Sanctions, Occupation &...
LONDON, Mar 23 (IPS) - Human life is sacred and every individual deserves an equal chance in life. We have a common desire, we all want to lead a free, fulfilling existence, with dignity, where our basic needs are met, with opportunities...
GENEVA, Mar 22 (IPS) - Given the complex interplay between geopolitics and financial markets, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 sent shockwaves across the global economy. Admittedly, the implications both within and between...
NAKURU, Kenya, Mar 22 (IPS) - Using naturally occurring microbes, a Kenyan entrepreneur has developed a molasses-based supplement that pre-ferments animal feeds to unlock all the necessary nutrients that would otherwise find a way out of...
Headlines for March 22, 2023; Andrew Bacevich on China’s Rise as Global Superpower & Decline of U.S. Empire After Iraq Invasion; The U.S. Owes Iraq “Just Compensation”: Muslim Peacemaker Sami Rasouli on 2003...
KIGALI, Mar 21 (IPS) - Against a brutally painful historical backdrop, a story of hope and resilience unfolds in Rwanda. Read the full story, “BRAC International Signs MoU with Rwanda to Empower People in Extreme Poverty”, on...
Headlines for March 21, 2023; “Stop Dirty Banks”: Bill McKibben & Ben Jealous on Ending Big Bank Funding for Fossil Fuel Expansion; U.N. Warns “Climate Time Bomb Is Ticking” as Cyclone Freddy Death Toll Tops...
Headlines for March 17, 2023; Never Again: Human Rights Groups & Japanese Americans Warn Biden Against Jailing Migrant Families; Julian Assange’s Father & Brother Speak Out on His Jailing, Press Freedom & New...
Headlines for March 16, 2023; Blinken Visits Niger, Home to U.S. Drone Base, as Biden Moves to Counter China & Russia in Africa; Will Peace Hold in Tigray? Blinken Visits Ethiopia Four Months After Truce Reached to End War; Death,...
Headlines for March 15, 2023; Jeremy Scahill on Growing Proxy War Between U.S. and Russia & Downing of U.S. Drone in Black Sea; The Nord Stream Bombing: Jeremy Scahill on Why U.S. Remains Most Likely Culprit in Pipeline Sabotage;...
Headlines for March 14, 2023; How Silicon Valley Bank & Signature Bank Lobbied to Weaken Regulations That Could Have Prevented Collapse; Autopsy Suggests “Cop City” Protester Sitting Cross-Legged, Hands Up, When Shot 14...
The pro-EU protests in Tbilisi, which forced the government to kill the highly controversial bill on “foreign agents”, have triggered a natural hysteria in occupied Abkhazia, where the narrative has stubbornly been spread as if the West...
Headlines for March 13, 2023; China’s Middle East Deal: Iran & Saudi Arabia Reestablish Relations as U.S. Watches from Sidelines; Climate & Indigenous Activists Decry Biden’s Approval of Willow Oil Drilling Project in...
The opposition is creating a coordination council to resist the adoption of controversial bill on “foreign (influence) agents” by the ruling Georgian Dream, which is widely perceived as a kind of foreign policy U-turn for Georgia –...
Verbal and physical confrontation followed the start of consideration of the anti-Western bill initiated by a political group close to the ruling Georgian Dream in the parliament on Thursday. The opposition urged supporters to gather at...
The Conservative Movement, a far-right pro-Russian political party notorious for violence against LGBTQ activists and journalists, was second only to the ruling Georgian Dream in the last quarter of 2022 in terms of donations, according...
Mikheil Saakashvili’s health condition has worsened and if the current trend continues, irreversible processes will start in 1-2 months, states the Council of Doctors set by the Public Defender. “The patient has entered the phase...
The new far-right government is attempting a legal overhaul many see as a death knell for Israeli democracy. Will it matter for Israel’s global-minded tech industry?
President Joe Biden has announced his intent to nominate Robin Dunnigan as Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Georgia. Robin Dunnigan is a career member of the Senior Foreign Service with the rank of Minister-Counselor, and...
If Saakashvili’s weight drops below 52 kg, his body will not be able to withstand and he will die, said neurologist who is a member of a medical concilium at the office of Public Defender on Wednesday at the ex-president’s...
Mikheil Saakashvili’s condition has worsened so much that he is being taken to intensive care unit, his lawyer said on Tuesday, although later the director of the hospital, where the third president of Georgia is being treated,...
Georgian far-right pro-Russian political party Alt-Info, which is the organizer of July 5 pogroms in 2021, against LGBTQI activists and journalists assumes responsibility for disrupting public lecture of the liberal politician and...
An election this fall will determine whether the crucial U.S. ally remains democratic or slides into autocracy, risking instability and more chaos in Europe.
Republicans were once the party of fiscally responsible conservatives who prided themselves on being Christians. Now the party has become a group of Karens demanding to speak to a manager.
“It is high time that Congress gets serious about the cost of anti-LGBTQ hatred”. Pulse nightclub shooting survivor Brandon Wolf spoke on Capitol Hill about the rise in anti-LGBTQ+ violence in America.
"I’m telling you what I see here are parallels to what the history was in this world back in the 1930s in Germany, in Italy,” Rep. Jim Clyburn (D-S.C.) said.
Death prophecies for Democrats and prayers and dancing for Trump. Here’s what we saw when we visited a touring Christian nationalist festival in central Pennsylvania.
Hundreds of races in state legislatures that have fueled the GOP's hard-right turn could determine the future of abortion rights — and U.S. democracy itself.