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Procter & Gamble, Mondelēz, And Nestlé Are Among 10 Of The Leading Consumer Brands Driving Global Deforestation
Saturday, 18 May 2024, 3:10 pm | Independent Media Institute
Despite corporate commitments, deforestation rates remain high, and community land conflicts continue. More >>
Defending Privacy In The Surveillance State And Fragmenting Internet
Friday, 17 May 2024, 9:09 am | Independent Media Institute
Governments and private entities have steadily eroded privacy on the internet. The trend toward internet functions centralising within national borders and fragmenting internationally reinforces the need to safeguard both openness and security in cyberspace. More >>
Parallels Between Archaic Entrepots And Modern Offshore Banking Centers
Friday, 10 May 2024, 10:45 am | Independent Media Institute
Offshore banking and tax-avoidance centers are nothing new; they’ve been with us for millennia. More >>
Trump Loyalists Preview Strategies To Upend 2024 Election
Friday, 10 May 2024, 8:25 am | Independent Media Institute
Not just challenging voters’ credentials in battleground states. But attacking every step in running elections. More >>
Student Demands For Divestment Are Not New
Sunday, 5 May 2024, 6:34 am | Independent Media Institute
There is a long history of students organizing for divestment from states and institutions complicit in criminal acts, apartheid, and genocide. Today’s campus protests against Israel are building on that movement. More >>
Will The Golden Age For Corporate Shareholders Ever End?
Friday, 3 May 2024, 10:45 am | Independent Media Institute
Shareholders have assumed enormous influence over U.S. corporations over the last few decades. Despite their firm hold, shifts are underway that could alter the domestic corporate landscape. More >>
How Banks And Investors Are Fueling A Global Biodiversity Crisis
Saturday, 27 April 2024, 2:57 pm | Independent Media Institute
Commercial financial flows to the forest-risk commodity sectors are driving the majority of tropical deforestation. More >>
India’s Billionaire Wealth Is On Display As Nation Votes
Saturday, 27 April 2024, 2:52 pm | Independent Media Institute
India’s Ambani family has enjoyed flaunting its obscene wealth, a perfect reminder in the midst of an election, of the economic inequality afflicting voters. More >>
Should Harming Mother Earth Be A Crime? The Case For Ecocide
Saturday, 27 April 2024, 5:06 am | Independent Media Institute
The destruction of nature might one day become a criminal offense adjudicated by the International Criminal Court. Environmental activists are pushing to elevate the concept of ecocide—literally, the “killing of the ecosystem”—as the fifth ... More >>
Telling The ‘Untold’ Stories Of Palestinian Lives, Dreams, And Hopes—in Gaza And Beyond
Monday, 22 April 2024, 5:36 am | Independent Media Institute
The media collective Untold Palestine gathers the stories mainstream media doesn’t tell about Palestinians—videos, photographs, and written accounts from Palestinian people about their culture and daily life. More >>
Senator Cardin Must Help End The Blockade Of Cuba
Friday, 19 April 2024, 10:37 am | Independent Media Institute
Cuba is going hungry. The costs of food and other basic necessities are skyrocketing. Rolling blackouts periodically plunge the island into darkness. Parents struggle to find milk for their children. For the first time in history, the government has ... More >>
A Class Analysis Of The Trump-Biden Rerun
Friday, 12 April 2024, 12:45 pm | Independent Media Institute
Hostility has intensified between the two major parties as their opposition has become more extreme. This keeps happening because neither found nor implemented any solutions to the deepening problems besetting the United States. More >>
Armenia’s Escape From Isolation Lies Through Georgia
Thursday, 11 April 2024, 11:39 am | Independent Media Institute
Surrounded to its east and west by hostile neighbors and devoid of allies, Armenia’s geopolitical situation faces severe challenges. A growing partnership with Georgia could help the small, landlocked country to expand its options. More >>
The Myth That India’s Freedom Was Won Nonviolently Is Holding Back Progress
Thursday, 11 April 2024, 8:55 am | Independent Media Institute
Some struggles can be kept nonviolent, but decolonization never has been—certainly not in India More >>
The EU Is Marching Toward An Independent And Integrated Military
Saturday, 30 March 2024, 7:24 pm | Independent Media Institute
The EU’s evolving common defense network is decades in the making, yet remains hindered by its inability to match NATO and apprehension by some member states. More >>
We Need A Plan For The Transition To Renewable Energy
Friday, 15 March 2024, 9:26 am | Independent Media Institute
The transition to renewable energy is inevitable given the current climate crisis and the fact that fossil fuels are a finite resource. To make the shift, a detailed plan is required to indicate the first steps and anticipate challenges in allocating ... More >>
Tell The Truth About Israel’s Crimes Against Humanity
Thursday, 7 March 2024, 5:39 pm | Independent Media Institute
Western news bias in favor of Israel is more and more apparent as media outlets go out of their way to obscure the perpetrators of genocide. Israeli forces killed more than a hundred Palestinians and wounded more than 700 on February 29, 2024 during ... More >>
Outdated Narratives Have Humanity In A Downward Spiral—It’s Time To Tell ‘Stories For Life’
Saturday, 24 February 2024, 6:38 pm | Independent Media Institute
A short film and narratives project “Stories for Life” seeks to bring about the shift in culture that humanity needs to survive The stories we do and don’t tell about ourselves and these times in which we’re living shape the direction ... More >>
Why Won’t Biden Wave The Magic Wand In His Hand To Stop Israel?
Wednesday, 21 February 2024, 6:24 pm | Independent Media Institute
If stopping genocide is not a good enough reason for Biden to rein in Israel’s blood thirst, is losing the 2024 election a risk he’s willing to take? As Israel’s war on Gaza continues unabated, the United States, which holds great leverage over ... More >>
Cashing In On Racist Bail
Saturday, 10 February 2024, 6:25 pm | Independent Media Institute
Cash bail is racist. No wonder the GOP loves it and is relying on expanding it as a cynical election-year ploy. Most Americans have not considered “cash bail” as critical to equality and freedom. The term is an esoteric one but is increasingly ... More >>
