By Thalif Deen UNITED NATIONS, Apr 30 2013 (IPS) – The face of migration is changing dramatically as women and girls now represent about half of the over 214 million migrants worldwide. And in some regions of the world, they… Continue Reading
Jessica Valenti* ? The Nation Feminists put up with a lot: the mainstream media constantly announcing the movement?s death, mansplainers, stereotypes about Birkenstocks. The whole pervasive political and cultural sexism thing is no picnic, either. But there?s one thorn in… Continue Reading
Asoka Bandarage* – The Huffington Post In 1962, Rachel Carson warned in Silent Spring that “For the first time in the history of the world, every human being is now subjected to contact with dangerous chemicals from the moment of… Continue Reading
by Matt Taibbi* – Rolling Stone The Illuminati were amateurs. The second huge financial scandal of the year reveals the real international conspiracy: There’s no price the big banks can’t fix Conspiracy theorists of the world, believers in the hidden… Continue Reading
Ivan Krastev* – Kultura, Sofia The European Union no longer exists, at least not as we know it. And the question is not what will be the form of the new Union, but rather why this Europe, which was the… Continue Reading
By PAUL KRUGMAN ? The New York Times Economic debates rarely end with a T.K.O. But the great policy debate of recent years between Keynesians, who advocate sustaining and, indeed, increasing government spending in a depression, and austerians, who demand… Continue Reading
By Pepe Escobar* – Asia Times LONDON – The Boston bombing was major blowback. That much is certain. The question is, what level of blowback? It could have been a covert op gone real bad. It could have been blowback… Continue Reading
By Roberto Savio* ROME, Apr (IPS)–For a long time it was a given that while Europe was based on defending a more just society, with social values and solidarity, the United States was based on the glory of individualism and… Continue Reading
By Desmond Brown PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, Apr 24 2013 (IPS) – Tourism, widely regarded as the mainstay of Caribbean economies, is being challenged to remain sustainable in an era of climate change and its impact on beaches, rivers and… Continue Reading
By MARCUS WALKER – The Wall Street Journal Angela Merkel listened in Vatican City as Pope Francis, in his inaugural Mass last month, called on the powerful to care for the weak. A few hours later, in her limousine to… Continue Reading
By Ramesh Jaura – IDN-InDepth NewsAnalysis BERLIN (IDN) – Does globalisation promote development? If you scratch beneath the surface, the answer of OECD researchers to this crucial question in times of financial collapse and its atrocious consequences for the vulnerable… Continue Reading
naked capitalism* There?s a remarkable amount of optimism in the US financial media given the underlying health of the economy. Of course, the sort of short term investors that have come to dominate securities trading had been in a ?risk… Continue Reading
By TODD MAY* ? The New York Times The choice is not between violence and nonviolence but between nonviolence and nonexistence. – Martin Luther King Jr. We are steeped in violence. This past week was of course a searing reminder:… Continue Reading
By Baher Kamal* -Human Wrongs Watch Whither Egypt (I) ? Did You Say Dictatorship? Cairo, 20 April, 2013 ? Go to any five-star hotel downtown. Enter the lobby and watch who are there. You will see some pure-white ?gebbah? (robe)… Continue Reading
Financial Times* Agriculture is a big hurdle in the world?s largest free-trade agreement High on the range of south-central Montana, not far from Yellowstone National Park, several hundred cattle are grazing under blue skies, occasionally herded from one end of… Continue Reading
Paul Krugman* And I?m back. This real life thing is getting in the way of my blogging, so maybe I should give it up. The delay has put me behind the curve on two new entries in the Reinhart-Rogoff affair,… Continue Reading
By Kalinga Seneviratne – IDN-InDepth News Analysis SINGAPORE (IDN) – While the Anglo-American international media has been beating the war drums on North Korean leader Jong-un?s threats to fire missiles at American bases in the region, commentaries in Asian newspapers… Continue Reading
By MAUREEN DOWD ? The New York Times WASHINGTON. Over the winter, I heard military commanders and White House officials murmur in hushed tones about how they would have to figure out a legal and moral framework for the flying… Continue Reading
Cerstin Gammelin – S?ddeutsche Zeitung In voting on April 16 against a delay in auctioning new CO2 emission quotas, the European Parliament has blunted the main weapon in the fight against global warming and scaled back Europe?s global ambitions a… Continue Reading
By LAURIE GOODSTEIN – The New York Times Pope Francis has reaffirmed the reprimand of American nuns issued by his predecessor, Pope Benedict XVI, and endorsed the plan to have three bishops supervise an overhaul of the nation?s largest umbrella… Continue Reading
