By SHMUEL ROSNER *? The New Times TEL AVIV ? In mid-December, a report by the National Insurance Institute and the Central Bureau of Statistics reported that Israel?s poverty rate was shamefully high: 23.5 percent. It found that one-fifth of… Continue Reading
By Jaya Ramachandran | IDN-InDepth NewsAnalysis BERLIN | GENEVA (IDN) – ?Everyone has the right to know, seek and receive information about all human rights and fundamental freedoms and should have access to human rights education and training,? says Article… Continue Reading
By Thalif Deen UNITED NATIONS, Dec 27 2013 (IPS) – When the U.N. Correspondents Association (UNCA) held its annual award ceremony last week, one of the video highlights was a hilarious skit on the clumsy attempts to bug the 38th… Continue Reading
By Roberto Savio* San Salvador, Bahamas, dec 2013 – At this time of hope for what the new year may bring, it would be useful to look at the legacy we carry with us from the year we leave behind.… Continue Reading
By ALI JARBAWI`* ? The New York Times RAMALLAH, West Bank ? These days, life appears to be going along as normal for Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza. Appearances can be deceptive, however. Prior to the 1987 intifada,… Continue Reading
By Hazel Henderson* T. AUGUSTINE, Florida, Dec 2013 (IPS Columnist Service) – The debate over structural unemployment, automation and jobless economic growth began in the 1960s as car factories replaced workers with robots.
by Johan Galtung* ? TRANSCEND Media Service, EDITORIAL What a Christmas gift to all of us from that amazing Pope Francis, his first Message for the World Day of Peace, Fraternity, the Foundation and Pathway to Peace. A tightly reasoned… Continue Reading
By Eric Zuesse* ? The Huffington Post On Friday, December 20th, Democratic U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren finally separated herself clearly from former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, regarding the issue of climate change and global warming. Here is the… Continue Reading
Jos? Ignacio Torreblanca*- Presseurop When Presseurop launched in 2009, nobody thought the euro’s future would soon be threatened or that the Union would be at risk of implosion. Presseurop has charted all these travails, and has helped Europeans better know… Continue Reading
By Jim Lobe WASHINGTON, Dec 20 2013 (IPS) – Three months after averting a military strike against Syria with a last-minute deal to deprive it of its chemical weapons arsenal, U.S. policy toward the world?s most violent conflict appears increasingly… Continue Reading
Dahr Jamail* – The Nation How will climate change affect the future of the planet? Scientists predict it will be nothing short of a nightmare. I haven?t returned to Mount Rainier to see just how much further that glacier has… Continue Reading
Le Monde, Paris The agreement concluded by European Finance Ministers on December 18 provides for single resolution mechanism for banks and will pave the way for a single resolution fund. As such it amounts to an important step towards a… Continue Reading
By Giuliano Battiston JALALABAD, Afghanistan, Dec 18 2013 (IPS) – Afghanistan?s 30 million people are deeply divided over whether President Hamid Karzai should sign the Bilateral Security Agreement (BSA) with Washington that will allow U.S. military operations to continue in… Continue Reading
By Lord Renwick of Clifton – New Direction Report in brief: Robin Renwick was one of Mrs Thatcher’s senior foreign policy advisers. He worked at the highest level on some of the great issues of the day: EU negotiations, the… Continue Reading
Jan Rood | Kees Homan – De Volkskrant Amsterdam In both militarily intervention and investment in the defense industry, Europeans lack coordination and have lost credibility. Yet, after the French intervention in the Central African Republic, the issue has returned… Continue Reading
Bob Dreyfuss – The Nation The National Security Agency (NSA) and its high-tech spying cohorts have been slammed by a federal judge and, if a report in Politico is to be believed, the presidential commission set up earlier this year… Continue Reading
By Erik Solheim* – IDN-InDepth NewsDocument While the international community has learned much about what works in terms of reducing poverty, and the world is on track to achieve the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) target of halving the proportion of… Continue Reading
By Fredrik S. Heffermehl* OSLO, Dec 9 2013 (Columnist Service) – A March 2012 decision by the Swedish authority supervising foundations is a ticking box of dynamite under the Nobel Peace Prize. Even presented in an official, open document, the… Continue Reading
By Johan Galtung* WASHINGTON, Dec 2013 (IPS) – In a passage in Charles Darwin?s The Voyage of the Beagle, he condemns an egalitarian native people at the tip of South America to remain primitive.
Helmut Uwer – Neue Z?rcher Zeitung, Zurich This village near Berlin is the only place in Germany that is completely autonomous in terms of energy supply. Thanks to wind turbines in their backyard and an independent grid, residents pay minimum… Continue Reading
