By Ana Swanson and Alan Rappeport (*) –The New York Times WASHINGTON — As President Trump dangles the possibility of extending a March deadline to reach a trade deal with China, his advisers are trying to secure firm commitments from… Continue Reading
By Alexander C. Kaufman* – HuffPost The oil, gas and coal industries’ donations heavily favor the lawmakers who have so far refused to back the only climate policy to match the scale of the crisis. The 12 senators co-sponsoring the… Continue Reading
By Nick Allen* – The Telegraph Bernie Sanders’ singular refusal to compromise the principles of his left-wing crusade have helped earn him the nickname “America’s Jeremy Corbyn”. In policy terms there certainly are similarities, although Mr Sanders sits somewhat to the… Continue Reading
By Steve Phillips* – The Nation Is the president of the United States a racist? The short answer is yes, but the question itself actually misses the mark and is dangerously misdirected for those who want to redress the ongoing… Continue Reading
By Emilio Godoy MEXICO CITY, Feb 20 2019 (IPS) – “We’re in a very difficult situation. There is militarisation at a regional level, and gender-based violence. We are at risk, we cannot silence that,” Aura Lolita Chávez, an indigenous woman… Continue Reading
Jean-Pierre Vettovaglia* A spark that lit a fire. The increase of the fuel tax was too much of a sacrifice imposed on the modest French homes invisible from the Élysée palace: suburbs and rural France! Combating climate change with a… Continue Reading
By Roberto Savio* Rome, Feb., 2019 – I have been a member of the first international party: the Transnational Radical Party, founded in 1956 by Marco Pannella and Emma Bonino. Then in 1988, I was a wetness of the large… Continue Reading
By Jomo Kwame Sundaram* KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, Feb 19 2019 (IPS) – For two centuries, all too many discussions about hunger and resource scarcity has been haunted by the ghost of Parson Thomas Malthus. Malthus warned that rising populations would… Continue Reading
By Jan Lundius* STOCKHOLM / ROME, Feb 18 2019 (IPS) – Roma, a 2018 Mexican film written and directed by Alfonso Cuarón, is currently on a triumphal journey through the world. It won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film… Continue Reading
By Simon Jenkins* – The Guardian A Commons report lays bare horrifying abuses. But the UK is no closer to regulating the far-too-powerful tech industry Death threats, bullying, mental torture, privacy invasion, election rigging, fake news, monopoly abuse: as was… Continue Reading
By Keith Bradsher* – The New York Times BEIJING — Talks between the United States and China to end their trade war will continue in Washington next week, officials from both countries said on Friday, hours after high-level negotiations between… Continue Reading
By Tom Engelhardt* – TomDispatch Veni, Vidi, Tweeti (I Came, I Saw, I Tweeted) . An Obituary for the Republic What dreamers they were! They imagined a kind of global power that would leave even Rome at its Augustan height… Continue Reading
By Vincent Auger*, Opinion – The Globe Post Eighteen months after being driven from their homes in Myanmar by what U.N. officials described as a campaign of genocidal violence by the military, the situation facing Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh remains… Continue Reading
By Halle Jorn Hanssen* – Hakim Dario Moi South Sudan During the Liberation Struggle ISBN: 978-82-91385-61-7 © 2017 Skyline publishing Book Review: By Hakim Dario Moi, PhD Book Review Author contact: press@pdm-rss.org Date: 11th February 2019 I read this book and… Continue Reading
By Thalif Deen* UNITED NATIONS, Feb 13 2019 (IPS) – When the Security Council, the most powerful body at the United Nations, met last month to discuss the growing new threats to world peace and security, the discussion veered away… Continue Reading
By Asoka Bandarage* – Asia Times The 71st anniversary of Sri Lanka’s independence from British rule was celebrated on February 4 in a “gallant ceremony” at the Galle Face Green in Colombo. Geopolitical rivalry, foreign intervention and constitutional reform for… Continue Reading
By Roger Harris – ZeroHedge, via Counterpunch.org Donald Trump imagines Juan Guaidó is the rightful president of Venezuela. Mr. Guaidó, a man of impeccable illegitimacy, was exposed by Cohen and Blumenthal as “a product of a decade-long project overseen by Washington’s elite regime change… Continue Reading
By Jomo Kwame Sundaram and Vladimir Popov (*) KUALA LUMPUR and BERLIN, Feb 12 2019 (IPS) – Economic recovery efforts since the 2008-2009 global financial crisis have mainly depended on unconventional monetary policies. As fears rise of yet another international… Continue Reading
By Tom O’Connor – Newsweek A senior Russian diplomat has hit out at the United States’ reported attempts to oust the Venezuelan government by turning the Latin American state’s armed forces against it. The U.S. has recognized National Assembly head… Continue Reading
By Tyler Durden* – ZeroHedge Nobel laureate Paul Krugman is possibly the world’s most famous Keynesian economist thanks to his position on the New York Times editorial board. And he just joined the growing chorus of voices calling for a… Continue Reading
