By Joan Erakit NEW YORK, Sep 30 2013 (IPS) – One of the fastest-growing Asian immigrant groups in the United States, Filipinos are perceived as the most likely to assimilate with ease. That is, of course, if you?re looking from… Continue Reading
By Yanis Varoufakis* A few days before the German federal election, the American commentator Bob Kuttner called upon German Chancellor Angela Merkel to use the election victory that was clearly in the making to change tack regarding the European Periphery.… Continue Reading
By Ramesh Jaura* – IDN-InDepth NewsAnalysis BERLIN (IDN) – Reputed to be an ardent campaigner for a nuclear weapons free world, ICAN has yet again called upon the powers-that-be to ban all nukes threatening the very survival of planet Earth… Continue Reading
By VANESSA BARBARA ?The New York Times AT the opening of the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday, Dilma Rousseff, the president of my country, Brazil, delivered a scolding speech in response to reports that the National Security Agency has… Continue Reading
by US Sen. John McCain – Pravda When Pravda.ru editor, Dmitry Sudakov, offered to publish my commentary, he referred to me as ?an active anti-Russian politician for many years.? I?m sure that isn?t the first time Russians have heard me… Continue Reading
By Roberto Savio* Avila, Spain, September 2013 ? The recent German elections have obscured the division between the north and the south of Europe. For the last three years, everybody has been mesmerised by the Greek crisis, followed by the… Continue Reading
By Olivier De Schutter, Jochen Flasbarth, and Dr. Hans R. Herren* UNITED NATIONS, Sep 25 2013 (IPS) – Reducing the proportion of undernourished people by half until 2015 was one of the Millennium Development Goals that the international community set… Continue Reading
By Wolfgang M?nchau ? Financial Times Crisis-resolution will take the form of ?pretend and extend?. Nothing will be resolved Angela Merkel owes this weekend?s electoral success to her ability to persuade voters she is a safe pair of hands in… Continue Reading
By WILLIAM J. BROAD and DAVID E. SANGER* ?The New York Times Four miles from the White House, Army specialists are digging very cautiously into an empty lot where a brick house once stood in one of the district?s toniest… Continue Reading
Julian Borger – The Guardian.com Brazil’s president, Dilma Rousseff, has launched a blistering attack on US espionage at the UN general assembly, accusing the NSA of violating international law by its indiscriminate collection of personal information of Brazilian citizens and… Continue Reading
As wages stagnate and costs rise, US workers recognise the guiding ideal of this nation for the delusional myth it is Since 1977 people have consistently believed their financial situation will improve next year even when previous years have consistently… Continue Reading
Analysis by Pierre Klochendler JERUSALEM, Sep 23 2013 (IPS) – ?Does Israel have chemical weapons too?? is the question posed by the U.S. publication Foreign Policy, citing a newly uncovered CIA document from 1983 which alleged that Israel is likely… Continue Reading
By Carey L. Biron WASHINGTON, Sep 2013 (IPS) – Member governments, security companies and civil society organisations on Thursday formally created the first international body to be tasked with the monitoring and oversight of private military contractors? adherence to human… Continue Reading
George Washington’s blog Given that the U.S. has now backed down from its insistence that a UN resolution on Syria include the use of force ? and there are indications that Syria won?t meet the American deadline for declaring its… Continue Reading
Bob Dreyfuss- The Nation President Obama has a chance, now that Russia has rescued him from the impending debacle in Syria, to pull off a deal with Iran?s new, reasonable leadership.
By Jim Lobe * WASHINGTON, Sep 19 2013 (IPS) – The United States needs to phase down its drug war and tighten the reins on its cooperation with local militaries and police in Latin America, according to a new report… Continue Reading
The Guardian , Posted by Dana Nuccitelli The 5 stages of climate denial are on display ahead of the IPCC report Climate contrarians appear to be running damage control in the media before the next IPCC report is published The… Continue Reading
By Jim Lobe* WASHINGTON, Sep 18 2013 (IPS) – On the eve of the 68th session of the United Nations General Assembly, a newly released survey of 39 countries shows that the world body remains relatively popular around the globe.… Continue Reading
Federico Mayor Zaragoza* The “International Day of Democracy” is the right time to think out loud about democracy, what means, what represents as everyday behaviour at a personal, local, regional and international scale, how the ?democratic principles enshrined in the… Continue Reading
By PAUL KRUGMAN ? The New York Times A few days ago, The Times published a report on a society that is being undermined by extreme inequality. This society claims to reward the best and brightest regardless of family background.… Continue Reading
