Leonid Bershidsky Bloomberg.com Hillary Clinton and her team hold that “the Russians” were responsible for almost any disruptive or embarrassing hack in the U.S. Many articles about the recent attack on Dyn, the New Hampshire-based internet infrastructure company, mentioned Russian… Continue Reading
Maggie Black For Other News Oxford, 29 October 2016 During the 40-year stand-off between the US and USSR superpowers, every outbreak of hostilities on the globe was sharpened by the Cold War division. Yet it still remained possible to uphold… Continue Reading
Ken Kurson Observer Unearthed tape: ‘We should have made sure that we did something to determine who was going to win’ On September 5, 2006, Eli Chomsky was an editor and staff writer for the Jewish Press, and Hillary Clinton… Continue Reading
By J Nastranis NEW YORK (IDN) – Nuclear disarmament campaigners have hailed the landmark resolution adopted by the United Nations on October 27 for launching negotiations in 2017 on a legally binding treaty outlawing nuclear weapons. The resolution heralds an… Continue Reading
By Baher Kamal ROME, Oct 2016 (IPS) – Almost inadvertently, humankind is getting closer everyday to the point of no-return towards what could be called the ‘climate doomsday’. Now, globally averaged concentration of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere has… Continue Reading
Security Weekly By Scott Stewart Whether after a protracted struggle or a rapid defeat, the Islamic State will lose control of Mosul in the face of the offensive to expel it. This naturally raises the question: What comes next for… Continue Reading
By Dominique Von Rohr ROME, Oct 2016 (IPS) – In a WhatsApp video that went viral in September, a middle-aged Zimbabwean man addresses President Robert Mugabe, telling him that 90 percent of the people in the country are unemployed and… Continue Reading
VOLODYMYR CHEMERYS Opendemocracy In Ukraine, the state apparatus, far-right movements and patriotic citizens are working together to shut down debate and silence criticism.
By JANE PERLEZ The New York Times BEIJING — After unleashing an anti-American tirade in Beijing last week, President Rodrigo Duterte of the Philippines left some Chinese, who like tightly scripted state visits, wondering if their unpredictable guest could be… Continue Reading
By George Friedman Geopolitical Futures How one regional parliament blocked a trade deal for the entire EU. The Canadian-EU free trade negotiation has fallen apart. It was destroyed by the Walloon government, which opposed the deal. Since any free trade… Continue Reading
By Maureen O’Hara MarketWatch It’s too easy for Wall Street to overlook ethical constraints and only care about the ends, not the means It is human nature to search for the easier way to do things. At Volkswagen, engineers decided… Continue Reading
by G.M. Tamás LeftEast We tend to forget the importance of the experience of people participating in historical events. The mainstream political literature presents 1945 in Eastern Europe as a Russian occupation that gradually forced a rootless system on a… Continue Reading
By Mario Osava RIO DE JANEIRO, Oct 2016 (IPS) – The same justice that exists to ensure rights can become a tool to violate them and restrict freedom of the press, as seen with the recent wave of lawsuits against… Continue Reading
BY JEFF STEIN Newsweek If Hillary Clinton were Rachel in The Girl on the Train, Vladimir Putin would end up with a corkscrew in his neck. Alas, cyber wars don’t lend themselves to the neat endings of fictional whodunnits, much… Continue Reading
Elaine Moore in London and Simeon Kerr in Dubai Financial Times Saudi was helped by the low-rate backdrop, but the demand for the 30-year bond still surprised Saudi Arabia’s ambitious plan to chart a course away from oil dependence and… Continue Reading
The Guardian Philippines president talks of resolving South China Sea dispute through dialogue in new ‘springtime’ in relations with China The Philippine president, Rodrigo Duterte, has announced his “separation” from the United States, saying it has “lost” and he has… Continue Reading
By Timothy M. Gill* Monkey CageAnalysis The Washington Post Over the past year, it has become fashionable to draw parallels between Donald Trump and foreign leaders, especially populist leaders in Europe and Latin America. One of those leaders is former… Continue Reading
Geopolitical Futures By George Friedman The candidate has not shifted her strategy to respond to the changing reality in the international system. This is an election in which anything can happen. Nevertheless, for now at least, it appears that Hillary… Continue Reading
Analysis by Alyn Ware* NEW YORK (IDN) – The United Nations General Assembly has on October 13 affirmed António Guterres, the former Prime Minister of Portugal and UN High Commissioner for Refugees, as the next United Nations Secretary-General (UNSG). The… Continue Reading
By Baher Kamal ROME, Oct 2016 (IPS) – Now that world attention is focused on the fast growing process of urbanisation, with 2 in 3 people estimated to be living in towns and cities by the year 2030, an old… Continue Reading
