By Roberto Savio* ROME, Sep 29 2017 (IPS) – Generally, media have failed to analyse why the result of German elections is the worst possible. Merkel is not a winner, but a leader now in a very fragile position, who… Continue Reading
Posted by Yves Smith – Naked Capitalism Yves here. It was painful to read the encomiums for Wolfgang Schäuble yesterday as he is about to leave his post as German finance minister and become speaker of the Bundestag. The New… Continue Reading
Gail Collins* – The New York Times Donald Trump has just voted in the Worst Cabinet Member contest. “We’ll see,” he said when asked by reporters if he was going to fire Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price. I… Continue Reading
By Baher Kamal ROME, Sep 28 2017 (IPS) – “I asked him: do you want to come with us to Greece? He said: ‘Why not?’ So my wife and myself packed up and drove to Athens to open our ‘trattoria’… Continue Reading
Boaventura de Sousa Santos* The Catalonia referendum this Sunday will become part of the history of Europe, possibly for the worst of reasons. I will not discuss here the substantive questions, which can be interpreted as being historical, territorial, respecting… Continue Reading
By Baher Kamal ROME, Sep 27 2017 (IPS) – Each year, the electronics industry generates up to 41 million tonnes of e-waste, but as the number of consumers rises, and the lifespan of devices shrinks in response to demand for… Continue Reading
By Nomi Prins* – TomDispatch.com During the 2016 election campaign, Donald Trump repeatedly emphasized that our country was run terribly and needed a businessman at its helm. Upon winning the White House, he insisted that the problem had been solved,… Continue Reading
John Sauven – The Guardian Far-sighted government policy means the cost of offshore wind energy has halved. The benefits in terms of climate change and UK jobs will be enormous In March I went to see Henrik Poulsen, the boss… Continue Reading
Mark Seddon* – The Guardian For the sake of world peace and security, António Guterres must stand up to this narcissistic bully The presidential cavalcades have departed Manhattan. But the aftershocks of Donald Trump’s speech to the UN general assembly… Continue Reading
by Tyler Durden – ZeroHedge The EU’s policy of “replacement migration” is an economic failure and threatens to undermine China’s New Silk Road strategy for Europe by diminishing the continent’s much-needed consumer market potential, which should thereby serve as an… Continue Reading
By KEVIN RUDD – THE NEW YORK TIMES The news coverage of Myanmar over the past several months has led many people to conclude that Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, the de facto leader of the country, has abandoned her responsibility… Continue Reading
By Abby Maxman* BOSTON, Massachusetts, Sep 22 2017 (IPS) – Two years ago, world leaders joined together to endorse a new and ambitious agenda not to reduce poverty but to eradicate it, not to lessen hunger but to end it… Continue Reading
By PEPE ESCOBAR* – ASIA TIMES North Korea, Iran, Venezuela are targets in “compassionate” America’s war on the “wicked few.” It’s almost as though Washington felt its hegemony threatened This was no “deeply philosophical address”. And hardly a show of … Continue Reading
By Dr. Hanif Hassan Al Qassim * GENEVA, Sep 21 2017 (IPS) – The pursuit of international peace and security has been on the agenda of international decision-makers ever since the establishment of the League of Nations on 10 January… Continue Reading
By Joan W. Scott* – The Nation On the fast train from Brussels to Paris a few years ago, I met a young woman from the Philippines who was taking a weekend holiday from her job in Belgium to visit… Continue Reading
By Jessica Stern * UNITED NATIONS, Sep 20 2017 (IPS) – On September 18 and 19, US President Donald Trump addressed world leaders at the opening of the 72nd Session of the General Assembly in New York. Time and time… Continue Reading
By RICHARD C. PADDOCK and HANNAH BEECH – The New York Times NAYPYIDAW, Myanmar — Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, the Nobel Peace Prize laureate and de facto leader of Myanmar, stood before a room of government officials and foreign… Continue Reading
Dani McClain – The Nation You could be forgiven for thinking the movement has gone quiet. But you’d be wrong. On June 1, the right-wing blogger and avowed white supremacist Jason Kessler and other alt-right activists met for dinner on… Continue Reading
By Yousef bin Ahmed Al-Othaimeen* NEW YORK, Sep 18 2017 (IPS) – The Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), by virtue of its position of being the second largest international organization outside the UN system with 57 member countries comprising one… Continue Reading
Charles M. Blow* – The New York Times That was only one in a string a tweets on Sept. 11 by ESPN host Jemele Hill in which Hill goes on to say that Trump is “the most ignorant, offensive president… Continue Reading
