The great age of rising standards of living was also the age of the marketplace of ideas; truth telling goes hand in hand with optimism. In the absence of prosperity and community cohesion, ideas are vulnerable to the censor.An engraving of Fama from Virgil’s Aeneid. Credit: piemags/rmn / Alamy Stock Photo ‘Who you gonna believe,…

In a special ceremony in New York City on 12 September, the PI will launch a comprehensive Program of Action on the New International Economic Order. In the Progressive International’s 35th Briefing of 2024, we bring the latest news from the PI’s two year long project on the New International Economic Order. Tomorrow, the 79th…

Eighty years ago, representatives of the soon-to-be victorious allied powers gathered outside Washington DC to lay the foundations of the United Nations. Examining how delegates dealt with the enduring dilemmas of internationalism provides a lesson in how to deal with our global future.Some of the participants in the second session of the Dumbarton Oaks post-war…

Your guide to the corridors of power 10 September 2024Hello, In this week’s Powertrip, a political newsletter exclusively curated for TNM and NL subscribers by Dhanya Rajendran, Shabbir Ahmed, Pooja Prasanna, and Nidheesh MK, we look into the political fallout of a secret meeting between a senior Kerala cop and an RSS leader. We also look…

Originally published: Al Mayadeen  on September 2, 2024 by Cyril Zenda (more by Al Mayadeen)  |  (Posted Sep 04, 2024) Agriculture, Climate Change, Human Rights, StrategyAfricaNewswire Namibia recently announced plans to kill 700 animals, including elephants, to feed some of its most vulnerable communities. It is the latest country in southern Africa to turn to the forest to alleviate hunger as the region reels under…