Walden Bello and Foreign Policy In Focus – The Nation As US President Barack Obama descended on the Philippines, Manila and Washington were rushing to complete negotiations on an Agreement on Enhanced Defense Cooperation (AEDC) between the two countries.
Roberto Savio* Rome, April 2014 — For weeks now, the mainstream media have been unanimously engaged in denouncing Vladimir Putin?s action in Crimea first and Ukraine now. The latest cover of The Economist depicts a bear swallowing Ukraine, with the… Continue Reading
Steven Hsieh – The Nation A new study finds that about one in twenty-five people sentenced to death in the United States has likely been convicted erroneously, meaning it is ?all but certain? that American corrections departments have executed ?several?… Continue Reading
By A. D. McKenzie STOCKHOLM, Apr 29 2014 (IPS) – Fidelis Molao was 33 when he became a member of parliament in Botswana for the first time in 2009. He was the youngest MP in the country at the time,… Continue Reading
William M. LeoGrande -The Nation In defiant defense of ZunZuneo, the Agency for International Development?s secret text messaging program in Cuba, USAID spokesman Matt Herrick declared the agency ?proud? of its Twitter clone, which, at its height, reached more than… Continue Reading
By KEITH A. DARDEN* – The New York Times WASHINGTON ? For a moment last week, war seemed imminent. A day after Russia?s foreign minister, Sergey V. Lavrov, warned Ukraine?s leaders against using force in the crisis there, the Ukrainian… Continue Reading
Zo? Carpenter – The Nation David Novak is the chief executive of Yum! Brands, the parent company that runs Pizza Hut, Taco Bell and KFC. Last year, while Yum! Brands and other restaurant companies lobbied against raising the minimum wage,… Continue Reading
By Jim Lobe* WASHINGTON, Apr 24 2014 (IPS) – Amidst a roiling and mostly partisan debate over Washington?s global role, a survey released here Thursday suggests that President Barack Obama?s preference for relative restraint and multilateral ? over unilateral ?… Continue Reading
Michelle Chen – The Nation For most Americans, typically, making sure this month?s rent gets paid unfortunately ranks higher than stopping a future sea-level rise. So in his first term, President Obama framed his environmental messages around ?green jobs,? with… Continue Reading
Vladimir Golstein* – Al Jazeera What is unfolding in Eastern Ukraine has all the makings of a classic Marxist drama. The “Ukrainian Spring” has been a popular subject for all people. Various perspectives have been exhibited: US and Russian, Ukrainian… Continue Reading
By Martin Khor * GENEVA, Apr 2014 (IPS) – The growing crisis of antibiotic resistance is catching the attention of policy-makers, but not at a fast enough rate to tackle it. More diseases are affected by resistance, meaning the bacteria… Continue Reading
Roberto Savio* Rome, April 2014 — I founded IPS in 1964 and, until I left in 2001, I tried to give space in IPS to Latin American writers. I did the same with film directors for the time I was… Continue Reading
Mychal Denzel Smith – The Nation According to a study conducted by researches at the University of Minnesota, nonwhite people (black, Asian, Hispanic), regardless of income, are exposed to higher levels of air pollution than white people. John Metcalfe at… Continue Reading
By Jim Lobe* WASHINGTON, Apr 22 2014 (IPS) – As he embarks Tuesday on a major trip through East Asia, U.S. President Barack Obama will be focused on reassuring anxious ? albeit sometimes annoying ? allies that Washington remains determined… Continue Reading
Dear Readers: The article distributed yesterday, Crimea: When, and If, the Dust Settles, by Professor Hall Gardner, omits the source, which is the RUSSIAN INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS COUNCIL (RIAC). I deeply regret this error, from my full responsibility. Best regards, M.Dujisin,… Continue Reading
Hall Gardner* One of the great ironies of human experience is that the voice of ?wisdom? in old age is often considered ?utopian? or ?unrealistic? when the same counsel comes from younger voices with much less experience. Such is the… Continue Reading
By David Cay Johnston – Newsweek When fraudulent banking nearly sank the global economy in 2008, one former government official knew exactly how to nail the crooks. And he’d already swooped in to clean up a similar mess.
By Roberto Savio* ROME, Apr 2014 (IPS) – In case you missed it, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released the third and final part of a report on Apr. 13 in which it says bluntly that we only… Continue Reading
By Jim Lobe WASHINGTON, Apr 2014 (IPS) – In new data certain to fuel the growing public debate over economic inequality, a survey released Tuesday by the biggest U.S. trade-union federation found that the CEOs of top U.S. corporations were… Continue Reading
By Pepe Escobar* – Asia Times The US State Department, via spokeswoman Jennifer Psaki, said that reports of CIA Director John Brennan telling regime changers in Kiev to “conduct tactical operations” – or an “anti-terrorist” offensive – in eastern Ukraine… Continue Reading
