By Rebecca Onion *- Slate A century before Trump, the KKK also wanted to halt immigration. And while a real wall wasn’t in their playbook, their motivations and goals sound eerily familiar Last week, as the president continued to insist… Continue Reading
By Robert J. Burrowes* It is easy to identify the ongoing and endless violence being inflicted on life on Earth. This ranges from the vast multiplicity of assaults inflicted on our children and the biosphere to the endless wars and… Continue Reading
By Roberto Savio* ROME – After Teresa May’s defeat in the British parliament on January 15, it is clear that a new spectre is haunting Europe. It is no longer the spectre of communism, which opens Marx’s Manifesto of 1848;… Continue Reading
by Eldar Mamedov* – LobeLog During his trip to the Middle East the Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced an international summit in Warsaw on February 13-14 to “promote freedom, peace and stability in the Middle East.” Such objectives, judging by his… Continue Reading
By George Friedman* – Geopolitical Futures As population growth booms and slows, the only constant is panic The United States appears to be facing a possible population crisis. Statistics from the National Institutes for Health show that the U.S. birthrate… Continue Reading
By William S. Becker*- Presidential Climate Action Project (PCAP) Deep in the inner sanctums of the federal bureaucracy, Donald Trump’s lieutenants are writing the early drafts of the President’s State of the Union address, coming up on Jan. 29. It’s… Continue Reading
By Jason Lemon* – Newsweek Donald Trump Says He Only Likes Brazil Because Its Anti-LGBT, Pro-Torture New President Likes Being Compared to Him “Brazil’s got a great new leader,” Trump said on Monday while attending the American Farm Bureau Federation’s… Continue Reading
By Anis Chowdhury and Jomo Kwame Sundaram SYDNEY & KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 15 2019 (IPS) – In light of the uncertainty caused by the US-China trade war, the IMF expects the US economic growth to slow from a three-year high… Continue Reading
By Jade Hutchinson* – Rantt Media While Donald Trump’s brand of white nationalism endures, we must deepen our understanding of the group behavior, mentality, and tactics of right-wing extremists The United States of America has recently experienced concentrations of right-wing… Continue Reading
By Brooke Jarvis* – The New York Times Magazine Sune Boye Riis was on a bike ride with his youngest son, enjoying the sun slanting over the fields and woodlands near their home north of Copenhagen, when it suddenly occurred… Continue Reading
By Leila Yasmine Khan and Daud Khan (*) AMSTERDAM/ROME, Jan 2019 (IPS) – The Rohingya are a minority community living in Rakhine State in Myanmar. The Muslim Rohingya are considered intruders into Buddhist Myanmar – illegal immigrants from bordering Bangladesh.… Continue Reading
By Brendan Cole – Newsweek Here Is How the American People Would Pay for It Money could be diverted from disaster funds—like those set aside to help storm-ravaged Puerto Rico—to pay for President Donald Trump’s wall, it has been reported.… Continue Reading
By Mario Osava* RIO DE JANEIRO, Jan 10 2019 (IPS) – “We have already been decimated and subjected, and we have been victims of the integrationist policy of governments and the national state,” said indigenous leaders, as they rejected the… Continue Reading
By Steven Hahn* – The Nation Is the groundswell of popular discontent in Europe and the Americas what’s really threatening democracy? There is, many believe, a specter haunting the Euro-American world. It is not, as Marx and Engels once exulted,… Continue Reading
By Phillip Orchard – Geopolitical Futures The new trade agreement has the same goals as its predecessor – but it’s missing one key member The Trans-Pacific Partnership may have life in it yet. On his first day in office, nearly… Continue Reading
Chairman: Roberto Savio Opening with the 13 documents of the working groups – Chairman: Roberto Savio On Friday, December 14, thirteen reports from the working groups carried out in different parts of the world were presented to the Plenary of… Continue Reading
Roberto Savio* ROME, Jan 8 2019- The person most qualified to write the foreword for this latest work by Riccardo Petrella, In the Name of Humanity, would actually be Pope Francis, who, using other words but speaking of values and… Continue Reading
Phillip Inman – The Guardian / The Observer Jim Yong Kim has announced he is stepping down as the head of the World Bank, in a move that sent shockwaves through the international aid community. He will leave by 1… Continue Reading
By Ishaan Tharoor * – The Washington Post Last month, President Trump stunned his allies — and possibly his own advisers — by announcing the imminent withdrawal of U.S. troops from Syria. Critics feared Trump was playing into the hands… Continue Reading
By Tom Engelhardt* – The Nation/TomDispatch.com Washington’s wars have unsettled the planet in much the same way a giant asteroid did 66 million years ago Sixty-six million years ago, so the scientists tell us, an asteroid slammed into this planet. Landing… Continue Reading
