Why the UK (and US) Left Is Wrong To Be So Dismissive of Non-Violent Struggle
Some voices on the left advocate violent tactics. Is this recommendation well informed or desperate?
Read more...Some voices on the left advocate violent tactics. Is this recommendation well informed or desperate?
Read more...A very different Covid variant has made its way out of Africa into Europe and the US. How worried should you be?
Read more...The latest episode of the Ethiopian long war, which flared when the Ethiopian and Eritrean armies tried to sandwich Tigray between them in November 2020.
Read more...The Glasgow COP26 talks have wound down with little to show, and scant progress in areas such as food, plastics, and fashion that also contribute to our global problems.
Read more...Big Ag’s push to sell chemicals and other inputs to developing countries has worked out great for them and badly for Africa.
Read more...WHO approves first ever malaria vaccine.
Read more...A perspective from the Global South on the end game for growth.
Read more... Conversation.
The latest supply forecast for Covax – the programme for sharing COVID-19 vaccines around the world – suggests that accelerating vaccination in low-income countries looks unlikely.
Top international vaccine experts contend current evidence does not support a need for boosters for the fully vaccinated general population at this time and recommending instead directing doses to previously unvaccinated populations.
Read more...Russia and the UK take limited steps to slow the plastics juggernaut.
Read more...Optimal economic policy for LDCs requires their goverments to resist aping Washington and OECD fads.
Read more...Water Waste report discusses how textile production pollutes Africa’s rivers – and what must be done to correct this fashion problem.
Read more...“When it comes to the climate, African faith communities are urging the world to think twice before pushing a technical and corporate farming approach.”
Read more...The Gates Foundation and the WEF are steamrolling normal UN processes as part of a campaign to discredit sound agroecology practices.
Read more...Sierra Leone so far has had some Covid success despite low vaccination rates, and it illustrates the challenges poor countries face.
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