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 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 Thalif Deen* UNITED NATIONS, Jan 2019 (IPS) – The steady decline in multilateralism—accompanied by a rise in unilateralism– is beginning to threaten democratic norms, including press freedom, global governance, civic participation and human rights across Asia, Africa, South America… Continue Reading
By Ishaan Tharoor * – The Washington Post DAVOS, Switzerland — In some ways, the agenda at this year’s World Economic Forum — the annual conclave of the global elite — is not that different from the deliberations of 2018.… Continue Reading
By Ed Holt BRATISLAVA, Jan 22 2019 (IPS) – “I’ve never known a time when it was as bad as it is now,” says Beata Balogova, the Vice-Chair of the International Press Institute (IPI) and Editor in Chief of the… Continue Reading
By Stephan Richter and Richard Phillips(*) – The Globalist Whether intentional or not, Donald Trump serves the Kremlin’s interests — from NATO to the global economy and the Middle East to democracy As Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russia’s… Continue Reading
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 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
