by Deborah Brown | Sep 2, 2020 | Democracy & Governance, Human Rights, Labor, Trade, & Finance, Redev
Billions of people around the world have come to rely on the services Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google provide to exercise their basic human rights. But for many people, both within and outside the U.S., the concentration of power in these companies has meant...
by Phyllis Bennis | Aug 27, 2020 | Human Rights, Redev, War & Peace
In some ways, the U.S.-brokered plan for mutual recognition between Israel and the United Arab Emirates is big news. For more than a quarter of a century, only two Middle Eastern countries — Egypt and Jordan — had officially recognized Israel. None of the Gulf...
by Ariel Gold, Medea Benjamin | Aug 14, 2020 | Democracy & Governance, Human Rights, Redev, War & Peace
“HUGE breakthrough today,” crowed Donald Trump on twitter as he announced the new peace deal between Israel and the United Arab Emirates (UAE). The deal makes the UAE the first Gulf Arab state and the third Arab nation, after Egypt and Jordan, to have diplomatic ties...
by Elizabeth Schmidt | Aug 3, 2020 | Democracy & Governance, Health, Human Rights, Labor, Trade, & Finance, Redev, War & Peace
In March 2020, as the COVID-19 virus traversed the planet, UN Secretary-General António Guterres called for a global ceasefire to fight the common enemy. The virus, compounded by the effects of armed conflict, he noted, hit the most vulnerable the hardest. Women,...
by Niloofar Adnani | Jul 29, 2020 | Democracy & Governance, Human Rights, Labor, Trade, & Finance, Redev, War & Peace
As federal police pour into U.S. cities, the Trump administration’s crackdown on racial justice protests has taken its most authoritarian turn yet. At the same time, during a global pandemic, the Trump administration has continued to ratchet up devastating sanctions...
