The Biggest Crime You’ve Never Heard Of
Morning Star In 2003 UN imposed sanctions against Iraq – instigated by US and Britain – as a result of which 500,000 children died. IAN SINCLAIR has the story
Month: May 2016
The right to intervene
Vijay Prashad* – The Hindu Humanitarian intervention has often been used as a pretext for regime change. A short history of the global community’s struggle to agree on the ground rules
Bhutan, not Carbon neutral, but Carbon negative
A truly Exceptional and rare speech by the prime minister of Bhutan, exhibiting the kind of political discourse that is all but extinguished from contemporary politics.
The World Reaps What the Saudis Sow
By The New York Times Editorial Board Saudi Arabia has frustrated American policy makers for years. Ostensibly a critical ally, sheltered from its enemies by American arms and aid, the kingdom has spent untold millions promoting Wahhabism, the radical form… Continue Reading
Piketty has last laugh as revolts threaten the pay status quo
Jonathan Guthrie Financial Times Economist is finding unexpected allies — stock market investors Thomas Piketty’s 2013 tome Capital in the Twenty-First Century was dismissed by diehard critics as doctrinaire, statistically flawed and boring. Three years later the French economist’s broadside… Continue Reading
FROM WOUNDED KNEE TO SYRIA: A CENTURY OF U.S. MILITARY INTERVENTIONS
by Dr. Zoltan Grossman Published in Z magazine Since the September 11 attacks on the United States, most people in the world agree that the perpetrators need to be brought to justice, without killing many thousands of civilians in the process.… Continue Reading
A crucial handoff between United Nations climate chiefs
Guy Edwards and Timmons Roberts Brookings Among the United Nations’ top diplomats, Christiana Figueres may not be one of the tallest, but she is about to leave a very large pair of shoes to fill as executive secretary of the… Continue Reading
Global Emergencies, Urgent Challenges
Federico Mayor Zaragoza President, Culture of Peace Foundation This text is part of the 2015-2016 CEIPAZ yearbook, which addresses some of the current urgent challenges related to climate change, the refugee crisis, UN peacekeeping missions and the agenda of women,… Continue Reading
How Far Is Europe Swinging to the Right?
By GREGOR AISCH, ADAM PEARCE and BRYANT ROUSSEAU – The New York Times The candidate for the far-right Freedom Party in Austria lost the country’s cliffhanger presidential election on Monday by the slimmest of margins. Still, it was an example of… Continue Reading
Humanitarian Summit, The Big Fiasco
By Baher Kamal ISTANBUL, Turkey, May 2016 (IPS) – The World Humanitarian Summit held in Istanbul on May 23-24, failed to achieve its fund raising goals. With the exception of the German Chancellor Angela Merkel, none from the Group of… Continue Reading
The Real Reason Neocons Are So Upset About Donald Trump
By James Carden – The Nation The armchair warriors seem to be realizing that they could be frozen out of the corridors of power for the next four years. The past year has been a difficult one for the leaders… Continue Reading
Is it in Europe’s Interest to Push Russia into China’s Arms?
By Roberto Savio* ROME, May (IPS) No mention in the media of the dangerous increase in tension between Europe and Russia. But Nato has just made operational in Romania a missile system, the ABM, which the US has declared will… Continue Reading
Can Boko Haram Be Defeated?
By MAX SIOLLUN The New York Times ABUJA, Nigeria — Last December, Muhammadu Buhari, the president of Nigeria, declared that “technically we have won the war” against Boko Haram, the insurgent group that has been terrorizing the country for seven… Continue Reading
Africa has to go through its own industrial revolution
Kingsley Moghalu Financial Times The continent is in thrall to orthodoxies suited to more mature economies, writes Kingsley Moghalu Capitalism is failing Africa. A relatively small number of entrepreneurs have prospered on the continent in the past decade, becoming the… Continue Reading
Monopoly’s New Era
Joseph E. Stiglitz Project Syndicate NEW YORK – For 200 years, there have been two schools of thought about what determines the distribution of income – and how the economy functions. One, emanating from Adam Smith and nineteenth-century liberal economists,… Continue Reading
We may have already committed ourselves to 6-meter sea-level rise
by Systemic Disorder Even if humanity were to stop throwing carbon dioxide and methane into the atmosphere today, a catastrophic rise in sea levels of six meters may be inevitable. Two previous prehistoric interglacial periods, in which the carbon dioxide… Continue Reading
Noam Chomsky: How Imperial Violence Backfires – Lessons from the Middle East
TomDispatch Excerpts from his new book, Who Rules the World? (Metropolitan Books). In brief, the Global War on Terror sledgehammer strategy has spread jihadi terror from a tiny corner of Afghanistan to much of the world, from Africa through the… Continue Reading
‘De-Ba’athification was a recipe for disaster’
The Hindu Zalmay Khalilzad on the successes and failures of the United States in Afghanistan and Iraq Afghanistan-born Zalmay Khalilzad has been the highest-ranking Muslim in the U.S. administration and has worked under President George W. Bush in various capacities.… Continue Reading
Time to End the Greek Debt Tragedy
The New York Times By THE EDITORIAL BOARD It’s the season when Greece’s continuing debt saga approaches what has now become a familiar summer climax, with citizens protesting austerity cuts and international creditors squabbling over the terms of loans. It’s… Continue Reading
Fear Is not a Good Counsellor
By Roberto Savio* ROME, May 2016 (IPS) – A new spectre is haunting the world. It is not the spectre of communism, as Marx’s Manifesto famously proclaimed. It is the spectre of fear, which has increasingly become the rationale behind… Continue Reading