By Robert Reich* – Newsweek Don’t get bogged down in the minutiae of President Donald Trump’s Senate impeachment trial. Here are the 10 big things you need to know. 1. Did Trump commit an impeachable offense? Yes. His attempt to… Continue Reading
By George Friedman* – Geopolitical Futures At the end of this week, the United Kingdom, the second-largest economy in Europe, will exit the European Union. Meanwhile, Poland is under intense attack by the bloc for violating EU regulations by attempting… Continue Reading
By Boaventura de Sousa Santos* Baruch de Spinoza, the great 17th century philosopher, wrote that the two basic human emotions (or “affections”, as he called them) are fear and hope, and he suggested that a balance needs to be struck… Continue Reading
By AMY GOODMAN – Democracy Now! (*) Calls are growing for the Senate to call witnesses in President Trump’s impeachment trial, after The New York Times published details about former national security adviser John Bolton’s forthcoming book. In the book,… Continue Reading
by Tyler Durden – Zero Hedge* After the editor of Christianity Today infuriated the president and stunned the American evangelical community by declaring that President Trump should be booted from office, the president has apparently found a way to show… Continue Reading
The Economist The 2020s are poised to be to energy firms what the 2010s were to utilities—disruptive As revolutionary slogans go, it hardly had the resonance of ¡No pasarán! But when Repsol, a Spanish oil company, said in December it would reduce the… Continue Reading
By John Nichols* – The Nation In that way, the president is keeping a campaign promise. Too bad for him, the Democrats are keeping theirs. Three years ago this week, Donald Trump swore an oath that he would “faithfully execute… Continue Reading
Anthony Harwood * – Newsweek It’s hard not to be astonished by Saudi Arabia’s arrogant belief that it can do whatever it likes. It comes from being disgustingly rich and having everyone suck up to you, I suppose. But this… Continue Reading
By The New York Times, Reporting from the World Economic Forum in Davos DAVOS, Switzerland — Greta Thunberg spoke here Tuesday afternoon at an event hosted by The New York Times and the World Economic Forum. Here is the full… Continue Reading
By BBC Panorama Team Leaked documents reveal how Africa’s richest woman made her fortune through exploiting her own country, and corruption. Isabel dos Santos got access to lucrative deals involving land, oil, diamonds and telecoms when her father was president… Continue Reading
Editorial The climate crisis and social unrest could finally force corporate leaders to think beyond the profit motive When Klaus Schwab founded the World Economic Forum in an Alpine ski resort in 1971, he wasn’t to know that the 30-year… Continue Reading
Annette Zimmermann, Elena Di Rosa, Hochan Kim – Boston Review We need greater democratic oversight of AI not just from developers and designers, but from all members of society. A great deal of recent public debate about artificial intelligence has… Continue Reading
By Walden Bello* In India and the Philippines, strongmen have consolidated immense power through democratic means. How do we explain this? Demonstrations and strikes have shaken India over the last few weeks as people from all walks of life protest… Continue Reading
By Gerry Rodgers, Michael Hopkins and Rolph van der Hoeven (*) Louis Emmerij, who died on 26 November 2019 at the age of 84, was for many years one of the leading figures in international development policy and research. Big… Continue Reading
Galip Dalay – Newsweek It’s been less than two weeks since the assassination of Qasem Soleimani, commander of Iran’s elite Quds force, and he already looks set to reshape regional politics in death as much he had in life—if not… Continue Reading
By Thalif Deen* UNITED NATIONS, Jan 17 2020 (IPS) – The United States and 18 other UN member states have come under fire for denying a woman’s legitimate right to “bodily autonomy”—the right to self-governance over one’s own body without… Continue Reading
By Vijay Prashad* / Independent Media Institute With her head bandaged and her arm in a sling, university student Aishe Ghosh went before the cameras to say that the students of the university she attends in New Delhi would move… Continue Reading
By AMY GOODMAN – Democracy Now! (*) As the federal government plans to divert an additional $7.2 billion from the military budget for the construction of President Trump’s promised border wall, and tens of thousands of asylum seekers from Central… Continue Reading
By Aparna Gopalan* – The Nation The 2019 Nobel Prize winners in economics represent a new strain of neoliberal thought. In 1974, the neoliberal Austrian economist Friedrich Hayek was awarded the newly instituted Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in… Continue Reading
By George Friedman* – Geopolitical Futures There are moments when the entire world seems to be coming apart, as if Armageddon itself were upon us. Public attention tends to be able to handle just one Armageddon at a time, and… Continue Reading
