Ivan Semeniuk – The Globe and Mail OTTAWA . During an interview in 2014, Maurice Strong told The Globe and Mail how he, a businessman turned diplomat, came to have a lifelong interest in science and the environment. It started… Continue Reading
Robert J. Burrowes A new book, edited by Nick Buxton and Ben Hayes, both involved with The Transnational Institute, brings together a thoughtful collection of scholars, journalists and activists to explain the pre-eminence of the military and corporations in shaping… Continue Reading
by Kul Chandra Gautam* When James P Grant was appointed as its third Executive Director in 1980, UNICEF was already a highly respected organization that had won the Nobel Peace Prize and earned great reputation as the world’s premier humanitarian… Continue Reading
By Roberto Savio* ROME, Jan 27 2016 (IPS) – The rich and the powerful, who meet every year at the World Economic Forum (WEF), were in a gloomy mood this time. Not only because the day they met close to… Continue Reading
By Adam Fifield Twenty-one years ago today, the world lost the greatest advocate for children it has ever seen. Around one in the afternoon of January 28, 1995, in a small hospital room in Mount Kisco, New York, James Pineo… Continue Reading
By Thalif Deen UNITED NATIONS, Jan 27 2016 (IPS) – As the global refugee crises continues to worsen by the hour, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is quick to point out that when he took office in January 2007, the international… Continue Reading
Nyi Nyi* Once upon a time, over 35 years ago, I met and worked with an extraordinary man, a giant of a man, a gifted genius and a leader of man. He had the rare quality of combining theory and… Continue Reading
By Jim Lobe WASHINGTON, Jan 26 2016 (IPS) – If your view of world events outside the U.S. was shaped in substantial part by watching the evening news shows on the three major U.S. networks last year, you’d probably want… Continue Reading
Jon Rohde* For the 15 years that James Grant headed Unicef children became the focus of the UN. The success of his Child Survival Revolution in mobilising health services in virtually every nation provides important lessons today as we look… Continue Reading
By Vijay Prashad / AlterNet The Davos people talk about poverty and pledge money to charity. But it’s just spare change to them. Global elites meet in the remote Swiss town of Davos each year for the World Economic Forum.… Continue Reading
Reviewed by Peter Adamson* When UNICEF Executive Director Jim Grant died at the end of January, 1995, The New York Times mour ned the passing of “one of the great Americans of this century.” Amid a flurry of other tributes,… Continue Reading
By ALISON SMALE – The New York Times Berlin- Dozens of lawmakers from her own conservative party signed open letters against her this week. A nationalist right-wing party is gaining in strength. Speculation, building since the fall, now runs rife… Continue Reading
By Mahmoud Reza Golshanpazhooh* – IDN-InDepthNews Analysis TEHRAN (IDN | Iran Review) – Finally, after about two years of negotiations and talks, the nuclear marathon between Iran and six big powers of the world reached its finishing point with the… Continue Reading
By C.J. Polychroniou* -Truthout Turkey’s military has been recently escalating vicious attacks against the Kurdish population under the pretext of fighting ISIS. Last week, a petition was circulated by Turkish academics condemning this. And rightly so. The petition was signed… Continue Reading
Posted by Yves Smith – Naked Capitalism By John Helmer, the longest continuously serving foreign correspondent in Russia, and the only western journalist to direct his own bureau independent of single national or commercial ties. Helmer has also been a… Continue Reading
By Baher Kamal Cairo, Egypt, Jan 2016 (IPS) – Africa is clearly one of the most negatively impacted regions in the world, not helped by the increasing trend of the mainstream media to focus on tragic news, following a self-imposed… Continue Reading
By Katherine Mackenzie As the Ambassador of the Republic of the Sudan to Italy and Permanent Representative of the Republic of the Sudan to the UN Food and Agriculture organizations in Rome, Amira Daoud Hassan Gornass, takes-up her role as… Continue Reading
Stanly Johny If Ankara acts firmly against the IS, this would undermine its own Syria policy, but if it doesn’t, the threat from the IS to its domestic security will grow
By PIERS J. SELLERS The New York Times I’m a climate scientist who has just been told I have Stage 4 pancreatic cancer. This diagnosis puts me in an interesting position. I’ve spent much of my professional life thinking about… Continue Reading
By Baher Kamal CAIRO, Egypt, Jan 18 2016 (IPS) – Economic exclusion; financial systems that perpetuate their discrimination; limited participation in political and public life; lack of access to education and poor retention of girls in schools; gender-based violence; harmful… Continue Reading
