guardian.co.uk Kiriakou was jailed for revealing details of government use of waterboarding and disclosing identity of an undercover agent John Kiriakou, the former CIA agent who revealed details of the US government’s use of waterboarding against senior al-Qaida suspects, has… Continue Reading
By Thalif Deen UNITED NATIONS, May 31 2013 (IPS) – A U.N.-commissioned high-level panel of eminent persons, led by three world leaders, has moved the goal posts for the eradication of extreme poverty and hunger: from the current 2015 deadline… Continue Reading
By Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed* -The Guardian The brutal murder of an off-duty British soldier in broad daylight in the southeast London district of Woolwich raises new questions about the British government’s national security strategy, at home and abroad. Officials have… Continue Reading
By Emma Bonino* ROME, May, (IPS) ?The recent agreement for the normalisation of relations between Serbia and Kosovo has confirmed that the European Union (EU) is still acting as a ?magnet?, attracting its external neighbours and transforming and integrating them.… Continue Reading
By Yojana Sharma – BBC It was an eminent centre of learning long before Oxford, Cambridge and Europe’s oldest university Bologna were founded. Nalanda University in northern India drew scholars from all over Asia, surviving for hundreds of years before… Continue Reading
By Jim Lobe WASHINGTON, May 29 2013 (IPS) – In addition to the serious health problems it causes, child malnutrition is costing the global economy tens of billions of dollars a year by depriving its victims of the ability to… Continue Reading
By Don Quijones* – naked capitalism In a newspaper like El Pa?s it is no longer possible to criticize the main Spanish banks. And you have to be very careful when talking about the Government, in case it gets angry:… Continue Reading
By M?rio Soares * LISBON, May (IPS) ? The economic crisis began in the United States under the administration of then-President George W. Bush, following the collapse of the Lehman Brothers Bank. It came as a result of unregulated globalisation… Continue Reading
by Dr. Rona M. Fields, PhD* Canada and EEOC countries long recognized that health services and public education are essential entitlements for economic growth and security. The US circus over entitlements vs. taxing wealth has provided entertainment for EEOC countries… Continue Reading
By Thalif Deen UNITED NATIONS, May 26 2013 (IPS) – Slavery. Colonialism. Apartheid. Gender discrimination in voting. All were abolished in most places after longstanding battles ? largely in bygone eras. Now a high-level panel is scheduled to meet next… Continue Reading
By Jeffrey Davidow * Almost anything one can write about the internet is a cliche. The fundamental changes in how we conduct our lives and communicate are well known. There is little new to say. We focus on the massification… Continue Reading
By STEVEN RATTNER – The New York Times WHILE a Senate report detailing Apple?s aggressive tax sheltering of billions of dollars of overseas income grabbed headlines this week, little notice was paid to a surreptitious thrust at tax minimization that… Continue Reading
The Editors ? The Nation When Democrats nominated Barack Obama and Joseph Biden in 2008, there was relief that?after eight years of Bush/Cheney abuses?a major party was running, for the first time in our history, a pair of constitutional law… Continue Reading
David Pilling- Financial Times Here are two things that New Zealand, Vietnam, Peru, Japan and the US have in common. First, they all hope to join a nascent trade agreement called the Trans-Pacific Partnership, the biggest game in free-trade town… Continue Reading
By Mathieu Vaas IPS interviews MICHEL SIDIB?, executive director of UNAIDS UNITED NATIONS, May 22 2013 (IPS) – The global fight against HIV/AIDS has seen recent hard-won breakthroughs, including the discovery of the genetic hiding place of the virus by… Continue Reading
Mattea Kramer and Jo Comerford – The Nation This article originally appeared at TomDispatch.com [1]. To stay on top of important articles like these, sign up to receive the latest updates from TomDispatch.com [2]. The streets are so much darker… Continue Reading
By NELSON D. SCHWARTZ and CHARLES DUHIGG* ? The New York Times WASHINGTON ? Even as Apple became the nation?s most profitable technology company, it avoided billions in taxes in the United States and around the world through a web… Continue Reading
By Silvia Giannelli FLORENCE, May 21 2013 (IPS) – The wake of the global financial crisis, as many national governments in Europe cut back on services to citizens and used public money to rescue banks, taught many people a valuable… Continue Reading
By Jayati Ghosh* – naked capitalism Since her death, many eulogies of Thatcher have spoken of her as a revolutionary. Thatcherism (along with the associated Reaganomics) is seen as a radical transformative agenda that changed the face of economy and… Continue Reading
By Silvia Romanelli IPS interviews CHRIS MICHAEL of WITNESS UNITED NATIONS, May 20 2013 (IPS) – ?We live in a world where billions of citizen witnesses have cameras in their pockets. The opportunities are endless to document human rights violations,?… Continue Reading
