By Gaius Publius* – naked capitalism The Sanders- and Trump-led (for now) political rebellion is not going to go away. There are only two questions going forward: ?Will it remain a political rebellion, one that expresses itself through the electoral… Continue Reading
By Joaquín Roy* MIAMI, Mar 2016 (IPS) – The enemy isn’t Brussels: it’s Europe. The so-called Islamic State clearly signaled this by attacking, even more than the airport, a metro station. Maelbeek is not just another subway stop in the… Continue Reading
By Robert Pollin – The Nation Liberal critics like Paul Krugman argue that Sanders’s economic platform is unrealistic. They are dead wrong. Does Bernie Sanders’s economic program amount to pie-in-the-sky nonsense? The short answer is no. All of his major… Continue Reading
By Roberto Savio* ROME, Mar 2016 (IPS) – The recent Brussels massacre has created a short term reaction, which ignores a long term projection. All the debate is now about security, police reinforcement, new military strategies, as if terrorism can… Continue Reading
Posted on March 29, 2016 by Yves Smith – Naked Capitalism Yves here. This paper is more thoughtful and nuanced that its headline might lead you to believe. Nevertheless, there are some additional issues that it does not address. First… Continue Reading
By Emmanuel Karagiannis* – Newsweek The Fog of War that Prussian military strategist Carl von Clausewitz famously mentioned in his breakthrough book On War (1832) is visible in the Middle East. In 2011, when the Arab Spring reached Syria, most… Continue Reading
Paul Krugman – The New York Times There’s a lot of things about the 2016 election that nobody saw coming, and one of them is that international trade policy is likely to be a major issue in the presidential campaign.… Continue Reading
Boaventura de Sousa Santos* When I began studying the judicial system of various countries, almost thirty years ago, the administration of justice had the least public visibility among the state’s institutional dimensions. The big exception was the US, because of… Continue Reading
Dear Readers, The tragedy of the refugees in Europe has become just a question of numbers, and how the European Union, in a decision rejected by the UN and Medecins sans frontieres, is treating those numbers. In fact, this is… Continue Reading
By Thalif Deen UNITED NATIONS, Mar 24 2016 (IPS) – As hundreds of civilians continue to be killed in the ongoing conflict in Yemen, one of the leading human rights organization is calling for an arms embargo – specifically against… Continue Reading
Tony Barber – Financial Times At one end of the Brussels district that serves as the EU headquarters is Maalbeek metro station. A train there was bombed on Tuesday in a crime for which the Islamist extremists of Isis claimed… Continue Reading
Dear Readers: We send you a call for solidarity with refugees blocked in Idomeni. Best regards, The Editor. March 23, 2016. ————————————————————- 15,000 people are currently stranded in a refugee camp at Idomeni, Greece, in desperate need of food, shelter… Continue Reading
Parminder Jeet Singh* – The Hindu The real problem of the U.S.’s executive, legislative and judicial control over ICANN and the root server will not change with a shift to what is effectively internal oversight ICANN, or the Internet Corporation… Continue Reading
By Daniel Byman* – The New York Times The bombs that exploded in the Brussels airport and at a central metro station on Tuesday morning, killing at least 30 people, came as only the latest in a string of terrorist… Continue Reading
By Mike Gurstein* – Gurstein’s Community Informatics A4AI: Who Could Oppose a More Affordable Internet? The Alliance for an Affordable Internet (A4AI) and the Neo-liberal Stealth Campaign to Control the Internet Throughout the Developing World and Make Big Bucks for… Continue Reading
Jason Burke – The Guardian Revenge strike? Evidence of a new cell and incompetent security services? A sign that the network of Salah Abdeslam, the logistician for last year’s Paris attacks who was arrested in Brussels on Friday, is still… Continue Reading
By ANTHONY BANBURY – The New York Times I HAVE worked for the United Nations for most of the last three decades. I was a human rights officer in Haiti in the 1990s and served in the former Yugoslavia during… Continue Reading
By Moshe Kantor* “Those who don’t know history are destined to repeat it.” These famous words, spoken by the great statesman Edmund Burke, are more relevant today than perhaps at any time in our history. The horrors of Europe’s Nazi… Continue Reading
By Roberto Savio* ROME, Mar (IPS) The recent German elections went as predicted.. A new right wing, xenophobe party, Alternative for Germany, AFD, has emerged with force, and will bein national Parliament in 2017.This development is unprecedented in German politics… Continue Reading
IDN-InDepthNews NEW YORK (IDN) – As the selection process for United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s successor begins on April 12 and 14, with member countries’ and partly public participation, a new initiative is warning that if a woman is not… Continue Reading
