By Sasha Abramsky* – The Nation That, plus Supreme Court clearance for a white-nationalist asylum policy, and GOP dirty tricks in North Carolina—all in a week’s work for the Trumpists While many in the media were fixated on Trump’s Twitter… Continue Reading
By Jan Lundius* STOCKHOLM / ROME, Sep 2019 (IPS) – When I in 1980 first arrived in America it was a new world to me. I went from New York to Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic and like so… Continue Reading
By Maria Michela D’alessandro – The Globe Post Known as an epicenter of the migrant tragedy in the Mediterranean Sea, the island of Lampedusa is a popular Italian tourist destination. The island is the southernmost part of Italy, closer to… Continue Reading
The Economist As the courts are drawn into the Brexit crisis, there is still no sign of an alternative proposal to the rejected deal IT IS UNUSUAL for European diplomats and officials to become obsessed with British constitutional niceties. But… Continue Reading
Editorial Many will rightly celebrate the departure of the US national security adviser. But however welcome the news, it reflects the deeper problems with this administration No sensible observer of international affairs could lament Donald Trump’s announcement that he has… Continue Reading
William Mebane* – The Wall Street International Magazine A sustainable development scenario must take place Since the Paris Agreement bank loans for investments by the oil, gas, and coal companies have been steadily increasing; from $612 billion in 2016, $646… Continue Reading
By Paul Krugman* – The New York Times Sharpies, auto emissions and the weaponization of policy Democracies used to collapse suddenly, with tanks rolling noisily toward the presidential palace. In the 21st century, however, the process is usually subtler. Authoritarianism… Continue Reading
By Ben Ehrenreich* – The Nation What Extinction Rebellion, the grassroots civil disobedience movement, teaches us about transforming hopelessness into action The day I arrived in London a few weeks back, temperatures cracked 100 degrees at Heathrow airport. It was… Continue Reading
John Feffer* – Lobelog** Doesn’t idiocy ever take a vacation? As August wound down, the populist troika of Donald Trump, Boris Johnson, and Jair Bolsonaro proved once again that the United States, the United Kingdom, and Brazil would be better… Continue Reading
Por Fernando Ayala and René Castro* COP 25 is an opportunity to relaunch multilateralism and save the planet All countries and their inhabitants are responsible for the future of the Earth, especially the new generations that will inherit a world… Continue Reading
By Tom Engelhardt* – TomDispatch.com He crossed the border without permission or, as far as I could tell, documentation of any sort. I’m speaking about Donald Trump’s uninvited, unasked-for invasion of my personal space. He’s there daily, often hourly, whether… Continue Reading
Giselle Carino and Debora Diniz* – Newsweek For weeks, the world has watched with horror as the Amazon, the world’s largest tropical rainforest, has burned. Besides being home to indigenous Brazilian people, the Amazon rainforest plays a huge role in… Continue Reading
By Thalif Deen* UNITED NATIONS, Sep 5 2019 (IPS) – The United Nations will be hosting six high level plenary meetings –- unprecedented even by its own standards—during the beginning of the 74th session of the General Assembly in late… Continue Reading
By Francesco Martone* “Power inferno”, this is the title Jean Baudrillard gave to one of his essays in the aftermath of the attack at the Twin Towers , paraphrasing the title of a catastrophic film that hit the billboards years earlier , A… Continue Reading
By Boaventura de Sousa Santos* Automatic tumble dryers notwithstanding, most people in the world (women, most often than not) hang the wash on clotheslines made of metal, hemp rope, or wood. Tree branches can also be used as clotheslines. The… Continue Reading
The Economist Cynicism is gnawing at Western democracies Democracies are generally thought to die at the barrel of a gun, in coups and revolutions. These days, however, they are more likely to be strangled slowly in the name of the people.… Continue Reading
By Raoni Metuktire * – The Guardian You destroy our lands, poison the planet and sow death, because you are lost. And soon it will be too late to change For many years we, the indigenous leaders and peoples of… Continue Reading
By George Friedman* – Geopolitical Futures All three countries are competing for power in the Pacific The United States emerged from World War II with complete control of the Pacific Ocean. Japan emerged from the war occupied and effectively governed… Continue Reading
Joseph Stiglitz* – Project Syndicate/ The Guardian An apparent move by big business to maximise stakeholder value sounds too good to be true For four decades, the prevailing doctrine in the US has been that corporations should maximise shareholder value… Continue Reading
The Economist The outside world is right to worry, but must show finesse in its dealings with Brazil PICTURES OF FIRES raging in the rainforest. A social-media storm in which #AmazonIsBurning dominated what passes for the global conversation. A war… Continue Reading
