By ROGER COHEN – The New York Times RIO DE JANEIRO ? A young American lawyer comes to Brazil in 2005, falls in love, finds that his gay relationship confers greater legal rights than back home, starts a blog called… Continue Reading
By Ramesh Jaura* | IDN-InDepth NewsAnalysis BERLIN (IDN) – There is a lot of good news on the nuclear disarmament front but there are miles to go before the campaigners for banning the bomb can ?lie down and sleep in… Continue Reading
Eric Alterman* – The Nation Max Blumenthal?s carelessly constructed case against the Jewish state won?t help the occupation?s victims. Israel is rarely wholly innocent in the stories Blumenthal tells. Its brutal military occupation of Palestinian land, now entering its forty-sixth… Continue Reading
Articles from The Washington Post (USA) and The Guardian (UK) NSA infiltrates links to Yahoo, Google data centers worldwide, Snowden documents say By Barton Gellman and Ashkan Soltani* – The Washington Post The National Security Agency has secretly broken into… Continue Reading
By: Josh Gerstein – POLITICO LLC From the days of Edward Snowden?s first leaks about National Security Agency surveillance, President Barack Obama has tried to calm public fears by stressing that ordinary Americans have nothing to fear.
Dean Baker – The Guardian The former Fed chair is promoting his new book. He should admit his role in the housing crisis, not insult our intelligence Alan Greenspan will go down in history as the person most responsible for… Continue Reading
By Yilmaz Akyuz* GENEVA, Oct 2013 (IPS- Columnist Service) – Five years into the crisis, growth in the U.S. is still below potential, Europe is struggling to pull out of recession and major emerging economies are slowing rapidly after an… Continue Reading
By Roberto Savio* Rome, October 2013 — Much has been written about U.S. brinkmanship with default, but the clear lesson that can be drawn from this unprecedented situation is that a lunatic fringe can block democracy.
By James R. Crotty* Eugene Fama just received a Nobel Prize for his contributions to the theory of ?efficient financial markets,? the dominant theory in financial economics that asserts that markets work ideally if not constrained by government regulation. The… Continue Reading
Ian Traynor – The Guardian Angela Merkel and Fran?ois Hollande lead push at EU summit to reshape transatlantic spying and agree new code of conduct Germany and France are to spearhead a drive to try to force the Americans to… Continue Reading
Julian Borger – The Guardian Is the negotiating edge that secret eavesdropping gives the US worth the immense reputational damage it is now suffering? For the third time in a week, Barack Obama has found himself trying to placate the… Continue Reading
Francine Mestrum* Social protection has been put high on the international political agenda by the international development organisations. The ILO (International Labour Organization) has adopted at its International Labour Conference of 2012 a recommendation on ?social protection floors?. UNDESA (UN… Continue Reading
By Pepe Escobar – Asia Times Online Don’t count on a female Saudi playwright writing a 21st century remix of John Osborne’s Look Back in Anger starring a bunch of non-working class Saudi royals. But anger it is – from… Continue Reading
By Jim Lobe* WASHINGTON, Oct 23 2013 (IPS) – New and unexpected strains in Washington?s ties with two of its closest Middle Eastern allies ? Saudi Arabia and Turkey ? have underlined the difficult challenges the administration of President Barack… Continue Reading
Ramesh Jaura | IDN-InDepth NewsAnalysis BERLIN | HIROSHIMA (IDN) – ?World leaders, high-ranking UN officials, city mayors and representatives of the civil society from around the globe, gathered for a summit at Hiroshima and Nagasaki to mark the seventieth anniversary… Continue Reading
By Pablo Piacentini* Interview – CUAUHT?MOC C?RDENAS ROME, Oct 15 2013 (Columnist Service) – Cuauht?moc C?rdenas, known as the ?moral leader? of the Mexican left, said that his country and Central America ?focus very much on the North? and should… Continue Reading
Paige McClanahan – theguardian.com India says paying farmers higher prices will help boost food security, but critics say it will hurt poor producers elsewhere India is pushing hard for a change to global trade rules that would allow governments in… Continue Reading
Gary Younge* – The Nation It?s not just here that the right has gone ?wacko??it isn?t interested in governing effectively in Europe, either. When the hard right first regrouped under the Tea Party banner, South Carolina Republican Senator Lindsey Graham… Continue Reading
By Robert Parry – Consortium News | News Analysis Lost in the celebration over the Nobel Peace Prize to the UN agency eliminating the Syrian government?s chemical weapons is the question of who was really behind the August 21 poison-gas… Continue Reading
By Jim Lobe* WASHINGTON, Oct 18 2013 (IPS) – Despite U.S. and Western pressure on the opposition to take part in U.N.-sponsored talks aimed at halting the two-and-a-half-year-old Syrian civil war, most experts here believe the rebels are unlikely to… Continue Reading
