News and analysis headlines for week ending February 15, 2021

Elections in Ecuador: The Road Ahead

Why Israel is joining the Pentagon’s ‘Arab Nato’

The last unanswered question about Alexei Navalny was answered this week in a Moscow courtroom by Navalny himself

UCL’s Academic Board finds the IHRA definition of antisemitism not fit for purpose

Degrowth: Socialism without Growth

Damning UN report urges the UK to unfreeze Venezuelan gold

The Secret of China’s Success: Neighborhood Committees

It’s Clear Why NewsClick Is Being Targeted, and Why it Was Viewed as a Threat

Prison Labor in the United States: An Investor Perspective

Forced Labor in the U.S.

ICC clears way for war crimes probe of Israeli actions

How Israel’s Netanyahu helped break apart the Joint List

‘More than 200 Years in Prison’: Venezuelan Parliamentary Commission Charges Guaidó

The Chinese ‘Debt Trap’ Is a Myth

Ecuadorians Reject ‘Neoliberal’ Banker in Favour of Progressive for President, Ex-Diplomat Explains

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