By Bill McKibben – The Nation On the day the heat index in an Iranian city broke world records, Shell Oil moved forward with its plan to drill in the Arctic. Shell Oil’s icebreaker Fennica is apparently on its way… Continue Reading
By JACK EWING and LIZ ALDERMAN – The New York Times FRANKFURT — The Greek businessman was nervous as he carried a suitcase stuffed with cash through security at the Athens airport a few months ago. But the distracted and… Continue Reading
By Thalif Deen UNITED NATIONS, July 2015 (IPS) – The U.N.’s highly ambitious post-2015 development agenda, which is expected to be finalised shortly, has come fire even before it could get off the ground. A global network of civil society… Continue Reading
Alberto Rabilotta* – Alai 28/07/2015It is very curious that the political leadership of the European Union (EU) and their traditional spokespersons, the politicians, economists and the mainstream press that for decades have sustained and defended this project, have not joyfully… Continue Reading
Robert J. Burrowes* There is much that is revolting about the current world and Andre Vltchek, Christopher Black and Peter Koenig are well placed to document it, which they have done in their new book ‘The World Order and Revolution!… Continue Reading
Adam Davidson* – The New York Times There is definitive proof, for anyone willing to look, that Greece is not solely or even primarily responsible for its own financial crisis. The proof is not especially exciting: It is a single… Continue Reading
By Mark Buchanan* – Bloomberg One of the more troubling elements of the recent drama over Greece’s debt was the urge by many to see a deficiency of national character, rather than euro-zone economics, as the problem. Right-leaning opinion, not… Continue Reading
By Thalif Deen UNITED NATIONS, July 2015 (IPS) – When the 21-year-old Crown Prince of Jordan, Al Hussein bin Abdullah II, presided over a Security Council meeting last April, he was described as the youngest ever to chair one of… Continue Reading
Yanis Varoufakis* – Financial Times? Plan would have eased Greece’s chronic liquidity shortage, writes Yanis Varoufakis A paradox lurks in the foundations of the eurozone . Governments within the monetary union lack a central bank that has their back, while… Continue Reading
Boaventura de Sousa Santos* Europe’s biggest problem is Germany, not Greece. Just over two years ago (May, 2013) I published a piece entitled “The German Diktat”, in which I listed the justifications given by Germany at the beginning of the… Continue Reading
By JOSEPH E. STIGLITZ* ATHENS — AS the Greek crisis proceeds to its next stage, Germany, Greece and the triumvirate of the International Monetary Fund, the European Central Bank and the European Commission (now better known as the troika) have… Continue Reading
By Frederika Randall – The Nation Why doesn’t Italy, with its strong left-wing traditions, have a Podemos like Spain? Rome—Italians were anything but indifferent this spring when the Syriza government in Greece decided to defy the dogma of European austerity.… Continue Reading
By A. D. McKenzie PARIS, Jul 24 2015 (IPS) – “We received a garden as our home, and we must not turn it into a wilderness for our children.” These words by Cardinal Peter Turkson summed up the appeal launched… Continue Reading
By ANDREW HIGGINS – The New York Times BRUSSELS — To many Greeks, the debt the country has amassed is the evil fruit of austerity policies, imposed from the outside, that asphyxiated its economy and trampled on its sovereignty.
Edward Luce – Financial Times THOSE WHOM THE gods will destroy they first make mad. Critics of Barack Obama’s Iran deal have been giving a good impression of having lost the plot. An Israeli cabinet minister described it as “one… Continue Reading
Boaventura de Sousa Santos* Europe has become a laboratory of the future. What is being tested there should be cause for concern for all democrats and particularly for everyone on the left. Two experiments are currently underway in this laboratory… Continue Reading
By Roberto Savio* Greece was the civilization where drama and farce were established as forms of theatre. The negotiations with the Eurozone were a drama for the Greek people, and a farce for the European leaders. In fact, it is… Continue Reading
Tony Barber – Financial Times In 2010, the year of their nation’s first €110bn international rescue, plenty of Greeks understood that the state and citizenry had lived for decades beyond their means. The medicine of austerity and economic reform would… Continue Reading
George Friedman* – Geopolitical Weekly In my “Net Assessment of the World,” I argued that four major segments of the European and Asian landmass were in crisis: Europe, Russia, the Middle East (from the Levant to Iran) and China. Each… Continue Reading
Paul Lewis – The Guardian Foreign minister conducts ceremony during his first trip to the US Bruno Rodríguez: embargo must end and Guantánamo must be returned Washington – Diplomatic relations between the US and Cuba have been officially restored, with… Continue Reading
