BY ISHAAN THAROOR* – The Washington Post Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, as readers of Today’s WorldView well know, is perhaps Europe’s most outspoken illiberal leader. He’s reviled by many in the Western establishment for his demonization of migrants and … Continue reading →

Anup Sinha* – The Telegraph, India The recent imposition of trade tariffs by the United States of America and the beginnings of a full-fledged trade war, or the perception that Brexit is going to be beneficial to Britain’s national interests, are … Continue reading →

By MICHAEL MCFAUL* In my first year in Moscow, I witnessed the unraveling of the U.S.-Russia Reset firsthand. May 19, 2018. In the fall of 2012, for reasons that remain mysterious to me, it became clear that my family and … Continue reading →

By Basten Gokkon* – Pacific Standard Environmental experts warn that many of these projects could cause irreversible damage in highly biodiverse areas As governments in Southeast Asia target economic growth through infrastructure development, China, the world’s second-largest economy, has emerged … Continue reading →

Editorial – The Guardian Donald Trump was not adlibbing when he said his meeting with Putin might be the easiest part of his Europe trip. That was his intention too Before he left Washington last week for the Nato summit, … Continue reading →

By Alexander Zaitchik* – Foreign Policy Indigenous people, not environmentalists, are the key to protecting the world’s most precious ecosystems In February, a group of Cofán men dressed in dark tunics and bandoliers studded with forest seeds gathered around a … Continue reading →

By Roberto Savio* ROME – According to the latest statistics, the total flow of immigrants so far in 2018 is 50.000 people, compared with 186,768 last year, 1,259,955 in 2016 and 1,327,825 in 2015. The difference between reality and perceptions … Continue reading →

ScienceDaily’s * The consequences of climate change are immense, and believed by many experts to be largely irreversible (and exponential), causing threats coming from heat waves, flooding, declines in agriculture, and decreasing biodiversity, to name a few. Given that climate … Continue reading →

By William Roberts – Al Jazeera News Helsinki summit comes days after 12 Russians are charged for hacking Democrat emails to tilt US vote in Trump’s favour Just as he did in Singapore with Kim Jong-un last month, US President … Continue reading →

By Jennifer Clark* – NBC News Digital Does the European Union need its own Ellis Island? One thing’s for sure: The EU desperately needs a better policy to deal with undocumented migrants Europe’s leaders have taken a small step towards … Continue reading →

BY IAN BURUMA*– ASIA TIMES     Comparing today’s demagogues with Adolf Hitler is almost always unwise. Such alarmism tends to trivialize the actual horrors of the Nazi regime and distracts attention from our own political problems. But if alarmism is … Continue reading →

By Tharanga Yakupitiyage IPS correspondent Tharanga Yakupitiyage spoke to Robert Scholes, ecologist and co-chair of Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Service (IPBES) assessment, about land degradation and efforts needed to halt and reverse the catastrophe. UNITED NATIONS, Jul … Continue reading →

Ewen MacAskill* – The Guardian European members contradict assertion that US president secured notable concessions Donald Trump has claimed victory at the Nato summit, saying progress had been made on defence spending only hours after throwing the Brussels meeting intodisarray … Continue reading →

By Thalif Deen* UNITED NATIONS, Jul 12 2018 (IPS) – A long standing proposal for the creation of a UN Parliamentary Assembly (UNPA) is slowly gathering momentum.

By Richard Fontaine and Vance Serchuk – The Atlantic The trans-Atlantic alliance has seen worse As President Trump kicks off a bruising NATO summit, trans-Atlantic relations are said to be in the grip of an unprecedented crisis. On multiple fronts—defense … Continue reading →

By Alejandra Borunda – National Geographic Scientists watched 200 hours of old cycling race video-and uncovered a valuable record of climate change Snowflakes pelted down on the mass of cyclists knotted together at the starting line of the prestigious Liège-Bastogne-Liège … Continue reading →

By Lili Bayer  – Politico (*) People working for Black Cube secretly taped meetings that were then cited by Prime Minister Victor Orbán. The Israeli private intelligence firm Black Cube was involved in a campaign to discredit NGOs ahead of … Continue reading →

Danielle Nierenberg is and Emily Payne* NEW ORLEANS, United States, Jul 10 2018 (IPS) – According to the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization, women make up about 43 percent of the agricultural labor force worldwide, and in some countries they … Continue reading →

By David Brennan – Newsweek Leadership Battle and New General Election Loom as Ministers Quit British Prime Minister Theresa May’s government seems to be crumbling amid the latest Brexit row to consume the Conservative party. In the space of 24 … Continue reading →

Damian Carrington* – The Guardian On-the-ground investigation finds use of banned CFC-11 is rife in China’s plastic foam industry A mysterious surge in emissions of an illegal ozone-destroying chemical has been tracked down to plastic foam manufacturers in China, according … Continue reading →