APRIL 15. 2025
Food Sovereignty All over the world, financial institutions and creditor countries are attacking people’s food sovereignty. They are imposing structural adjustment policies and pushing governments to give the priority to export-oriented productions, while importing the food that their population need. Funding should be directed towards public policies that protect and strengthen local food production, based on numerous small-scale food producers.
Fleeing their homes once more, thousands have crowded into the Islamic University, burning books to boil water, heat food, and stay warm.
Why we need a return to truly progressive taxation.
United Auto Workers president Shawn Fain explains his union’s position on tariffs and argues that we need a political movement that puts working-class people first to address the current political crisis in the US.
Primatologists and conservation organizations have launched a 10-year action plan to improve the outlook for langur monkeys in the Sundaland biodiversity hotspot, a region of Southeast Asia that spans Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, Singapore and Thailand.
On Jan. 29, the sky above Mexico City’s Zócalo plaza was filled with the floating figures of giant balloon whales. Hundreds of people from the “Whales or Gas? ” coalition protested in front of the National Palace over the Saguaro energy project, a massive pipeline planned by the government with U. S.
Notes on the Serbian student movement As in many other regional cases, most notably in Hungary, Poland, or Romania, the commonplace framing of the recent protests in Serbia by Western analysts revolves around the protesters’ anti-corruption demands and demands for the rule of law.
A total of 86 Darwin’s frogs are now being housed at London Zoo to keep them safe from a deadly infectious disease that has affected more than 500 species of amphibians worldwide.
Factory jobs are not inherently good jobs. Even if Donald Trump’s trade policies bring factories back to the United States, workers need unions to make those jobs well-paying and safe — and Trump has been the most anti-union president in years.
The 102 million Americans who live in suburbs, small towns, and remote areas who already pay more for private package delivery.
Vladimir Mayakovsky was a great poet of the October Revolution. Yet at the start of World War I, the young futurist had embraced the spirit of war — before seeing what it really meant.
A chunk of Scottish voters have tended to think that Scotland doesn’t need independence, just a Labour government. But with the party now in power, the tide has turned, writes Adam Ramsay.
Even 29 years after this sad episode in Brazilian history, impunity still reveals how justice protects the powerful and criminalizes the poor. The crime moved the world and transformed April 17 into the International Day of Fight for the Territories and the National Day of Fight for Agrarian Reform.
Scientists want to control extinction. It will have consequences we can’t even begin to conceive of.
Nigerian authorities have seized 3.76 metric tons of pangolin scales and arrested five people in Lagos, in a follow-up to the recent arrest of a Chinese national suspected of trafficking pangolin scales.
The last great Fang bard, Eyí Moan Ndong fused myth, music, and sci-fi to create epic performances that defy Western categories—and demand global recognition.
Donald Trump is hoping his tariffs will goad his liberal opponents into touting free trade and scoffing at the working class. Democrats don’t have to take the bait.
From land mine detection to sniffing out illegally trafficked wildlife parts, a group of trained African giant pouched rats in Tanzania is proving a valuable partner for humans, Mongabay’s Lucia Torres reported in February.
Donald Trump’s attorney general Pam Bondi’s call for Luigi Mangione to receive the death penalty is a dangerous political intervention in support of the indefensible.
In Salvadoran president Nayib Bukele, Donald Trump sees a far-right authoritarian who has something he doesn’t: an actual popular mandate.