by Bryan Carter – Equal Times The 2015 edition of the World Social Forum (WSF) closed this Saturday with a march in solidarity with Palestine through the streets Tunis, which was hosting this grand annual celebration of alter-globalisation for the… Continue Reading
Juan Cole – The Nation The rise of the Houthi movement in Yemen, the militias of Iraq, Hezbollah in Lebanon and even the Syrian Arab Army of Bashar al-Assad are being configured by many analysts as evidence of a wide-ranging… Continue Reading
By Mark Weisbrot – Al Jazeera America There is a tense standoff right now between the Greek government and the European authorities ? sometimes known as the Troika because it includes the European Commission, the European Central Bank (ECB), and… Continue Reading
AMY GOODMAN / JUAN GONZ?LEZ – Democracy Now! As tens of thousands gather for the World Social Forum in Tunis, Tunisia, we speak to one of the most prominent radical thinkers in Africa ? the Egyptian-born economist Samir Amin. He… Continue Reading
By Ra?l Ilargi Meijer* – naked capitalism When money managers talk outside their narrow field, nonsense is guaranteed to ensue. No better example than this Bloomberg piece on Ukraine?s ?debt restructuring? plans, which are as much a political tool as… Continue Reading
By Roberto Savio ROME, Mar 2015 – The United Kingdom has been accused of ?sleepwalking? into the Ukraine crisis ? and the accusation comes from no less than the House of Lords, not usually considered a place of critical analysis.
Alan Beattie – Financial Times blogs As the Trans-Pacific Partnership does or doesn?t approach completion, arguments for and against have had another airing, including the contention that the deal is worth doing for foreign policy reasons to enhance the US?s… Continue Reading
James Carden* – The National Interest A high-profile campaign by three well-regarded think tanks (Brookings, the Atlantic Council and the Chicago Council on Global Affairs) urging President Obama to send so-called defensive weapons to Kiev recently kicked off a surprisingly… Continue Reading
Rebecca Solnit – The Nation The future will follow an unpredictable route, but we must still follow a compass called hope. Most forecasts of the future presume that something in the present will continue to grow and increase its power… Continue Reading
By Carol E. Lee – Wall Street Journal? Deal that included the creation of a Palestinian state was a top foreign-policy goal WASHINGTON?President Barack Obama, citing conflicting comments in the past week from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, predicted Tuesday… Continue Reading
International Commission against the Death Penalty On 20 March 2015, ICDP President Mr Federico Mayor met Pope Francis in a private audience at the Vatican and discussed issues related to the abolition of the death penalty and areas of mutual… Continue Reading
By Dick Nichols ? LINKS The following talk — ?The Greek elections — what next? SYRIZA and the fight against austerity? ? was presented to the Department of Political Economy and the Australia-Greece Solidarity Campaign, March 10, 2015, at the… Continue Reading
By ALISON SMALE ? Ther New York Times BERLIN ? With time running ever shorter for an accord to ease Greece?s debt crisis and reported cash crunch, Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras and Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany on Monday sought… Continue Reading
By Roberto Savio ROME, Mar 2015 (IPS) – The ?surprise? re-election of incumbent Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the Mar. 17 elections has been met with a flood of media comment on the implications for the region and the… Continue Reading
By Roberto Savio* ROME, Mar (IPS) For a long time, citizens of the United States have firmly believed that their country has an exceptional destiny, and continue to do so today even though their political system has become totally dysfunctional.
By Wayne Hudson* BRISBANE, Mar 2015 (IPS) – Although global citizenship education has now received the recognition it deserves, much of the literature recycles old agendas under another name ? ?education to promote peace and justice?, ?sustainability?, ?care for the… Continue Reading
By Rob Parenteau – Naked Capitalism ?It would not be impossible to prove with sufficient repetition and a psychological understanding of the people concerned that a square is in fact a circle. They are mere words, and words can be… Continue Reading
by Rabbi Michael Lerner* – The Huffington Post According to Israeli newspapers reporting on the outcome of the Israeli election on Tuesday, Likud increased its lead in the next Knesset of 120 members. It will now hold 30 Knesset seats,… Continue Reading
By Roberto Savio* ROME, Mar 2015 (IPS) – It is now clear that we are not going to reach the goal of controlling climate change. It is worth recalling that the goal of not exceeding a 2 degree centigrade rise… Continue Reading
By George Yancy and Noam Chomsky – The New York Times This is the eighth in a series of interviews with philosophers on race that I am conducting for The Stone. This week?s conversation is with Noam Chomsky, a linguist,… Continue Reading
