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Haiti needs a Green New Deal, not another military intervention

Investing in green industries, social services and climate resilience can help Haiti recover and regain security.

A volunteer with Smucker’s Energy of Pennsylvania puts final touches on an installation of SolarWorld solar panels atop Hospital Lumière in Bonne Fin, Haiti. SolarWorld donated 50 kilowatts of solar panels to dramatically reduce the hospital’s reliance on expensive and faulty diesel generators. Credit: Eric Forberger for SolarWorld.

Looking at Berlin’s present through its past

What can an exhibition on 19th-century migrants in Berlin tell us about Germany’s current relationship with migration?

Migration into the Colonial Metropole Berlin, poster

Women in science should be the norm, not the exception

This International Women’s Day, let’s start working towards ending gender discrimination in science for good.

Rosalind Franklin seen at work

The border violence against Haitians reflects US racial ideology

It is not a coincidence that Haitians have the lowest asylum acceptance rates in the US and are deported en masse.

US Customs and Border Protection mounted officers try to push back asylum seekers, as they cross the Rio Grande from Ciudad Acuña, Mexico, into Del Rio, Texas on September 19, 2021 [AP/Felix Marquez]

What is really behind the crisis in Haiti?

One cannot understand what is going on in Haiti without considering its long history of violent foreign intervention.

Demonstrators take part in a march during a protest against Haiti's then-President Jovenel Moïse, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, February 14, 2021 [File: Jeanty Junior Augustin/Reuters]

Why we need a Juneteenth holiday

This holiday provides Americans with an opportunity to look at history from the point of view of the oppressed.

A woman raises her fist during events to mark Juneteenth, which commemorates the end of slavery in Texas, two years after the 1863 Emancipation Proclamation freed slaves elsewhere in the United States, amid nationwide protests against racial inequality, in the Harlem neighbourhood of Manhattan, in New York City, New York, June 19, 2020 [Andrew Kelly/Reuters]

What is International Women’s Day for Black women?

It is a reminder of the erasure of Black feminist struggles.

Picketers representing the National Association of Colored Women march past the White House in Washington, DC, July 30, 1956, carrying posters protesting the lynching of four Black people in Georgia [File: AP]

Debt in the time of pandemic

Alongside the pandemic and its impacts on the economy, the US is also facing a growing debt crisis.

Student debt protest

When Africa was a German laboratory

Western scientists used Africa as a living laboratory during the sleeping sickness epidemics of the early 20th century.

The head of Germany's Robert Koch Institute (RKI), Lothar Wieler, poses next to a bust of Robert Koch after addressing a news conference on the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Berlin, July 28, 2020. [Tobias Schwarz/Pool via Reuters]

How the myth of Black hyper-fertility harms us

This long-standing myth of American racism, tied to its obsession with Black sexuality, is harming women to this day.

George Floyd Protest - AP Photo/Rick Rycroft