By Thalif Deen UNITED NATIONS, Feb 2015 (IPS) – As the call for the decriminalisation of drugs steadily picks up steam worldwide, a new study by a British charity concludes there has been no significant reduction in the global use… Continue Reading
Paul Krugman* – The New York Times Last week, after much drama, the new Greek government reached a deal with its creditors. Earlier this week, the Greeks filled in some details on how they intend to meet the terms. So… Continue Reading
By A. D. McKenzie PARIS, Feb 26 2015 (IPS) – Providing women with greater access to mobile technology could increase literacy, advance development and open up much-needed educational and employment opportunities, according to experts at the fourth United Nations? Mobile… Continue Reading
John Gapper – Financial Times To anyone who witnessed its rise to become a global bank, the entire thing is baffling Stuart Gulliver?s crisp explanation this week of why he once held his annual bonuses in a Swiss private bank… Continue Reading
David Kortava – The Nation An interview with Jeffrey Sachs on the 2015 Paris negotiations, sustainable development and the profound threat facing our planet. In December 2015, world leaders will gather in Paris to negotiate a binding agreement to reduce… Continue Reading
Martin Wolf -Financial Times Huge increases in private sector credit preceded many financial crises Balance sheets matter. This is the biggest lesson of the financial crises that have rolled across the world economy. Changes in balance sheets shape the performance… Continue Reading
By Yanis Varoufakis ? The Guardian Before he entered politics, Yanis Varoufakis, the iconoclastic Greek finance minister at the centre of the latest eurozone standoff, wrote this searing account of European capitalism and and how the left can learn from… Continue Reading
Alfred W. McCoy – The Nation (*) How Washington gave itself a global get-out-of-jail-free card “The sovereign is he who decides on the exception,? said conservative thinker Carl Schmitt in 1922, meaning that a nation?s leader can defy the law… Continue Reading
Analysis by Jessica Faieta* NEW YORK, Feb 23 2015 (IPS) – Recent new data show a worrying picture of Latin America and the Caribbean. Income poverty reduction has stagnated and the number of poor has risen ? for the first… Continue Reading
Mary Dejevsky – The Guardian Ever since the roadmap for peace in Ukraine was agreed last week, the prevailing mood in western capitals has been pessimism laced with cynicism. In the unlikely event that the ceasefire somehow takes hold, this… Continue Reading
By WILLIAM D. CARRIGAN* and CLIVE WEBBFEB* The recent release of a landmark report on the history of lynching in the United States is a welcome contribution to the struggle over American collective memory. Few groups have suffered more systematic… Continue Reading
By Thalif Deen UNITED NATIONS, Feb 2015 (IPS) – A rash of sex discriminatory laws ? including the legalisation of polygamy, marital rape, abduction and the justification of violence against women ? remains in statute books around the world.
By H?ctor Vega* What is the existing data related to the Greek debt? Debt payment conditions as per the Troika ?the European Central Bank (ECB), IMF and European Community? place a stranglehold on the Greek government rather than assisting towards… Continue Reading
George Irvin* – Social Europe Is Frau Merkel forcing Greece?s departure from the Eurozone (EZ)? As Eurogroup ministers met again in Brussels on 16thFebruary, a solution to the present crisis could not be found. Although the much-favoured option involves de… Continue Reading
Roberto Savio* Abstract The author analyses the current stage in history, marked by a lack of global governance. There is little hope of achieving this in the short term as we are undergoing a period of transition. This text, that… Continue Reading
Vijay Prashad* – The Hindu In the cases of Muammar Qadhafi and Saddam Hussein, opportunities to allow them to surrender were squandered. It was as if the new dispensations in Iraq and Libya could be created from scratch. Rather than… Continue Reading
Katrina vanden Heuvel* – The Nation ?Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world? ? William Butler Yeats Yeats?s poem ?The Second Coming? captures reality in Europe these days, although surely not in the… Continue Reading
By Johan Galtung* PENANG, Malaysia, Feb2015 (IPS) – A theory serves comprehension, prediction and identification of conditions for change. Seven such historical-cultural pointers will be indicated for China ? using the West in general, and the United States in particular,… Continue Reading
Simon Jenkins* – The Guardian Pray for plan B. However many times Greece?s new leaders swear there is none ? pacifying their terrified bankers ? they must know what to do if last night?s debt renewal disarray continues. They must… Continue Reading
Paul Krugman* – The New York Times Try to talk about the policies we need in a depressed world economy, and someone is sure to counter with the specter of Weimar Germany, supposedly an object lesson in the dangers of… Continue Reading
