Ursula Kemp was a strong-willed woman. That may have been one reason she eventually ended up on the gallows. A midwife and healer in the small English village of St Osyth, Kemp
“Condition of good friends, condition of old wine,” Chinese President Xi Jinping cited a Brazilian proverb to describe the long-running friendship between the Chinese and Latin American people when addressing the Brazilian
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The socioeconomic ideology of Sri Lanka’s President, Anura Kumar Dissanayake, and his political party, the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP), has always been rooted in Marxism. Founded in 1965, the JVP has been
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IMF programs and equity As we have previously pointed out, though IMF programs appear to solely focus on development, they do not cater to or deal with matters that affect socio-economic justice
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INTRODUCTION In the future, managing overt but also informal support and more discrete contributions will be a challenge as nations carefully weigh up their internal and external equities and calibrate their level
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A feature article on the Business pages of The Island of February 16, 2023 served as a formal event announcement for the inaugural function of a new NGO called the People’s Convention on Good
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A pair of quotes, separated by eight years, spotlight a chronic political mentality at the top of the Democratic Party: “The path to victory in a state like Michigan, Harris campaign officials
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Editorial Donald Trump’s return to the Oval Office as the 47th President signals a seismic shift, one that could plunge Ukraine into unprecedented chaos, potentially sparking a military coup to remove Volodymyr
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For the past few weeks I have been on the road in Aotearoa (New Zealand) and Australia at the invitation of groups such as Te Kuaka, Red Ant, and the Communist Party of Australia. Both
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Editorial The world is a stage for a perpetual tragedy, a cycle of self-destruction that humanity seems unable to escape. We fall into catastrophe time and again—not because of some external calamity—but
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Germany’s ruling coalition has disintegrated, leaving Chancellor Olaf Scholz to govern with a fragile minority composed of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) and the Greens. The collapse follows Chancellor Scholz’s decision to
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