Month: October 2015

By Tom Engelhardt – TomDispatch.com / The Nation That’s why we went to war in Iraq and Afghanistan, right? You may not know it, but you’re living in a futuristic science-fiction novel. And that’s a fact. If you were to… Continue Reading →

By Valentina Pop – The Wall Street Journal VIENNA—The U.S., Russia and other countries meeting in Vienna offered broad backing Friday to a U.N.-led diplomatic process that will seek to set the conditions to end the brutal civil war in… Continue Reading →

By George Washington – Naked Capitalism China and Russia are still behind the U.S. militarily. But they are both showing surprising breakthroughs that – sometime down the road in the future – could threaten U.S. hegemony. The Washington Times reported… Continue Reading →

By Hazel Henderson ST. AUGUSTINE, Florida, Oct 2015 (IPS) – The year 2015 highlights the global shift from traditional money-based, gross domestic product (GDP)-measured economic growth to the new models of sustainable, inclusive human development embodied in the United Nations… Continue Reading →

By A.D. McKenzie | IDN-InDepthNews Analysis PARIS (IDN) – Since the adoption of the Sustainable Development Goals in September, global citizenship education has been receiving increased attention for the role it can play in both sustainable development and in keeping… Continue Reading →

by Yanis Varoufakis* – Project Syndicate op-ed ATHENS – Europe’s crisis is poised to enter its most dangerous phase. After forcing Greece to accept another “extend-and-pretend” bailout agreement, fresh battle lines are being drawn. And, with the refugee influx exposing… Continue Reading →

Every day the churches are taking a clear position on the issue of migrant, justice and solidarity. It is ironic that the country that identify themselves as the last for the defense of an catholic Europe, like Hungary and now… Continue Reading →

Gabriel Wildau – Financial Times Shanghai – A top Communist party corruption investigator has boasted of his conquests in bringing down a series of high-level officials in a rare glimpse of the inner workings of President Xi Jinping’s signature anti-graft… Continue Reading →

By Ed King – Climate Home* Plan B does not exist says France’s top climate diplomat, urging envoys to accelerate work on new text for global pact There is no secret text in the making for a UN climate deal… Continue Reading →

Timothy Garton Ash – The Guardian Despite the victory of the Law and Justice party, the country still contains powerful forces in favour of liberal, constitutional, European values “‘Putinism with a Polish face!” “Cultural revolution à la Polonaise!” “Orbanisation on… Continue Reading →

By João de Almeida Dias – Index on Censorship In their search to invest their oil and diamond money in Europe, the Angolan oligarchy has bought strategic positions in the Portuguese media in recent years — a bid to gain… Continue Reading →

Karl Mathiesen – The Guardian International Energy Agency projections have consistently failed to track the huge growth of renewables – yet many fossil fuel companies present their figures as fact International Energy Agency (IEA) projections that show the world will… Continue Reading →

By JUSTIN GILLIS – The New York Times Global temperatures are running far above last year’s record-setting level, all but guaranteeing that 2015 will be the hottest year in the historical record — and undermining political claims that global warming… Continue Reading →

By Roberto Savio * ROME, Oct (IPS) The success in the recent Swiss elections of the UDC-SVP, a xenophobic, anti European Union, right wing party, opens a number of reflections. Seventy years ago Europe came out from a terrible war,… Continue Reading →

By Laurens Cerulus – POLITICO, Brussels Departure puts the agency and Commission in an awkward position. An agency on the frontline of the EU’s response to the refugee crisis is losing its top official — and his replacement is not… Continue Reading →

By Roy Scranton* – The Nation To see the Arctic death spiral firsthand, and to see the Arctic before it melted, I took a 17-day “adventure cruise” and learned an inconvenient truth: We can’t make it stop. At the top… Continue Reading →

George Magnus* – Financial Times More than a decade has passed since a Chinese head of state last visited Britain; these two countries are very far from being peers. Yet President Xi Jinping’s trip to London this week illustrates how… Continue Reading →

By Bill McKibben* – The Nation Thanks to their willingness to sucker the world, we’re now a chaotic mess. A few weeks before the last great international climate conference—2009, in Copenhagen—the email accounts of a few climate scientists were hacked… Continue Reading →

By Raghav Gaiha* NEW DELHI, Oct 19 2015 (IPS) – After Adam Smith and Amartya Sen, Angus Deaton, this year’s Nobel laureate in economics, has contributed most to broaden and enrich our understanding of human well-being. His brilliant and path-breaking… Continue Reading →