Charlie Elphicke -The Guardian Traffickers target vulnerable refugees and migrants and threaten lorry drivers. Britain and France must unite to take far tougher action against them Every summer the refugee crisis is brought into sharp focus as British holidaymakers travel… Continue Reading
Martin Wolf – Financial Times To maintain legitimacy, economic policy must seek to promote the interests of the many not the few Is the marriage between liberal democracy and global capitalism an enduring one? Political developments across the west —… Continue Reading
Neil Buckley and Henry Foy – Financial Times Assertive member-states have benefited from the union but are seeking to overturn its institutions In Baile Tusnad, a spa town in the Transylvania mountains, thousands of young Hungarians gathered in the late… Continue Reading
By Kurt Eichenwald -The Nation Speaker Ryan: This presidential campaign has raised a few crucial questions, ones you are uniquely qualified to answer: What does the Republican Party stand for? And how much damage is it willing to inflict on… Continue Reading
By Jacob L. Shapiro Geopolitical Futures Both countries will continue to dance around the disputed islands issue. In 2007, Japan, South Korea and China decided that their foreign ministers should hold a summit once a year. Since then, they have… Continue Reading
Josef Joffe The EU’s multiple crises will not yield to invocations of its glorious past, writes Josef Joffe National loyalty”, and anything with “nation” in it, used to be as German as sauerkraut and knackwurst. But the Fatherland went the… Continue Reading
Analysis by Martin Khor * GENEVA (IDN | SouthViews) – The Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement has become a political football in the U.S. Presidential elections and with the public mood so against trade agreements, the TPPA faces the real possibility… Continue Reading
By Daniela Pastrana MEXICO CITY, Aug 26 2016 (IPS) – “Go and tell my dad that they’re holding me here,” Maximiliano Gordillo Martínez told his travelling companion on May 7 at the migration station in Chablé, in the southern Mexican… Continue Reading
Roger Cohen – The New York Times Sarajevo and Aleppo, two cities once part of the Ottoman Empire, two cities whose diverse populations have included Muslims and Christians and Jews, two cities rich in culture that have been besieged and… Continue Reading
By SCOTT SHANE – Zero Hedge Critics see Saudi Arabia’s export of a rigid strain of Islam as contributing to terrorism, but the kingdom’s influence depends greatly on local conditions WASHINGTON — Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump don’t agree on… Continue Reading
Mustafa Akyol * – The New York Times ISTANBUL — More than a month has passed since the July 15 coup attempt in Turkey. Most people here are glad we averted a major attack on our democracy, which could have… Continue Reading
Andrea Mammone – Boston Review Ornella is the Italian bookseller in London. In the most multicultural and energetic European capital city, she runs a bustling shop specializing in Italian literature and society. The place attracts all manner of Italian emigrants,… Continue Reading
By Ramesh Jaura BERLIN (IDN) – For the seventh year in succession, the world would commemorate on August 29 the International Day against Nuclear Tests, which would coincide with the 25th anniversary of the closure of the Semipalatinsk Nuclear Test… Continue Reading
By Baher Kamal ROME, Aug 23 2016 (IPS) – “Every evening, millions of people all over the world will settle into their armchairs to watch some TV after a hard day at work. Many will have a snack or something… Continue Reading
The Guardian György Schöpflin is spouting ‘xenophobic filth’ with tweet about deterring refugees, says Human Rights Watch director A Hungarian MEP has caused an outcry by suggesting pigs’ heads along Hungary’s border fence would help deter migrants. Under its conservative… Continue Reading
by Tyler Durden – Zero Hedge Submitted by Michael Shedlock via MishTalk.com, Project Fear predicted economic meltdown if Britain voted leave. Where are the devastated high streets, job losses and crashing markets? In other Brexit news, Sweden warns the UK… Continue Reading
By Mario Osava RIO DE JANEIRO, Aug 2016 (IPS) – Brazil’s first gold medal of the Rio de Janeiro Olympics gave it a new multipurpose heroine, Rafaela Silva, whose defeat of the favourites in judo has made her a strong… Continue Reading
By James Carden – The Nation From ISIS to the Iraq War to immigration—what wasn’t wrong about Trump’s speech. On Monday, Donald Trump gave a speech at Youngstown State University that amounted to an overlong, incoherent exercise in scaremongering. Most… Continue Reading
By Michael Moore – michael moore.com Friends, Donald Trump never actually wanted to be President of the United States. I know this for a fact. I’m not going to say how I know it. I’m not saying that Trump and… Continue Reading
Joseph Stiglitz* The problems with the structure of the eurozone may be insurmountable, writes Joseph Stiglitz That Europe, and especially the eurozone, has not been doing well since the 2008 crisis is beyond dispute. The single currency was supposed to… Continue Reading
