By Julio Godoy* – IDN-InDepth NewsInterview BERLIN (IDN) – Robert Jacobs was born 53 years ago, at the height of the cold war, amidst the then reigning paranoia of nuclear annihilation of humankind. In school, he was eight years old.… Continue Reading
Analysis by Jim Lobe* WASHINGTON, Nov 29 2013 (IPS) – From the Middle East to the East China Sea, the last week?s events have offered a particularly vivid example of the much-heralded shift in foreign policy priorities under the administration… Continue Reading
The Editors – The Nation There?s more work to be done, but this was a big win for democracy During his first five years in office, President Obama faced unprecedented obstruction of routine executive and judicial nominations: sixteen executive branch… Continue Reading
Lizzy Davies – The Guardian Italian parliament expels 77-year-old after conviction for tax fraud at his Mediaset empire but tycoon vows to stay in politics Showing on a loop on the screens outside Palazzo Grazioli was a compilation of clips… Continue Reading
By LAURIE GOODSTEIN and ELISABETTA POVOLEDO – The New York Times In his first nine months as leader of one billion Roman Catholics, Pope Francis has parceled out glimpses of his vision for remaking the church ? in homilies and… Continue Reading
Ambassador Michael Punke Deputy USTR and Permanent Representative to the World Trade Organization U.S. Mission 11 Route de Pregny 1292 Chambesy-Geneva Switzerland Dear Ambassador Froman, We write to express our dismay at U.S. opposition to proposals at the World Trade… Continue Reading
by Omar Kayed* – Al-Hayat / Al Monitor Fundamentalists, radicals, terrorists, extremists? there are many names given to anyone who carries a black flag, grows his beard, wears a shortened robe and screams Allahu akbar (God is greater than?) on… Continue Reading
Stephen Leahy – DeSmog Canada Canada and every other rich country need to crash their CO2 emissions 10% per year starting in 2014 to have any hopes of ensuring a not-super-dangerous climate for our grandchildren, said Kevin Anderson of Tyndall… Continue Reading
By RON WYDEN, MARK UDALL and MARTIN HEINRICH* – The New York Times WASHINGTON ? THE framers of the Constitution declared that government officials had no power to seize the records of individual Americans without evidence of wrongdoing, and they… Continue Reading
By Richard Kim* – The Nation The problems with the Affordable Care Act stem from government being too small and weak, not too big and powerful. Just a few weeks ago, on the heels of the Tea Party?s disastrous shutdown… Continue Reading
By Stephen Leahy WARSAW, Nov 24 2013 (IPS) – The U.N. climate talks in Warsaw ended in dramatic fashion Saturday evening in what looked like a schoolyard fight with a mob of dark-suited supporters packed around the weary combatants, Todd… Continue Reading
Johan Galtung* WASHINGTON, Nov (IPS COLUMNIST SERVICE) – The linchpin of an empire is the link between two elites, one in the imperial centre, the others in the peripheries. Symmetric alliances exist, but not when there is a superpower at… Continue Reading
Chakravarthi Raghavan* Geneva, 21 Nov – An ancient Indian saying (perhaps by a disillusioned courtier) has this: ?the words of a king, are like words writ in water, disappearing in the next ripple of waves.’
Yesterday most African and Latin American nations walked out of talks because Australia under the new Abbott govt said ‘we don?t care what you want?. With irresponsible govts in Australia, Canada and Japan there is little hope for agreement. I… Continue Reading
Third World Network (TWN)* Today, over 270 civil society organizations representing a broad range of civil society groups and global union federations representing hundreds of millions of workers across the world urged Roberto Azevedo, the Director-General of the World Trade… Continue Reading
By Claudia Ciobanu WARSAW, Nov 20 2013 (IPS) – The G77+China group of 133 developing countries negotiating a new international deal at COP19 in Warsaw to combat climate change walked out of the talks in the wee hours of Wednesday… Continue Reading
By Noam Chomsky and Catherine Komp – Truthout This is an excerpt from the just released 2nd edition of Noam Chomsky?s OCCUPY: Class War, Rebellion and Solidarity published by Zuccotti Park Press. Free Speech Radio News producer Catherine Komp interviews… Continue Reading
Zo? Carpenter – The Nation With budget negotiations on the horizon, a buzz is building around Social Security, from Elizabeth Warren and other Democrats calling for an expansion of benefits to The Washington Post?s editorial board arguing that seniors must… Continue Reading
By Ignacio Ramonet* PARIS, Nov 2013 (IPS Columnist Service) – Signs of rapprochement between Tehran and Washington are growing. A new era seems about to begin. It is now possible to imagine a political solution that would put an end… Continue Reading
By Stephen Leahy WARSAW, Nov 2013 (IPS) – Japan announced Friday that it will renege on its carbon emissions pledge, likely ending any hope global warming can be kept to 2.0 degrees C. The shocking announcement comes on the fifth… Continue Reading
