Sean Gleeson* – The Atlantic Speaking out on behalf of the Muslim minority—which the pontiff failed to do—might have endangered the Christian minority. RANGOON—The sight of Pope Francis greeting about 100,000 Burmese pilgrims on Wednesday was deeply moving, even for… Continue Reading
Robert J. Burrowes* Several years ago in Cameroon, a country in West Africa, a Western Black Rhinoceros was killed. It was the last of its kind on Earth. Hence, the Western Black Rhinoceros, the largest subspecies of rhinoceros which had… Continue Reading
By Naimul Haq In this special series of reports, IPS journalists travel to the border region between Bangladesh and Myanmar to speak with Rohingya refugees, humanitarian workers and officials about the still-unfolding human rights and health crises facing this long-marginalized… Continue Reading
By George Friedman* – Geopolitical Futures** Iran has always seen itself as being in competition with the Arab states for domination of the Persian Gulf. Its ambitions were put on hold in the late 1980s, at the end of an… Continue Reading
William Becker* – The Huffington Post The tax reform bill that the Senate is rushing to pass this week has several flaws, but one is especially disappointing for most Americans: It breaks Donald Trump’s promise of a “great big, beautiful… Continue Reading
By Baher Kamal ROME, Nov 28 2017 (IPS) – Believe it or not, the way to eradicate hunger from the face of the Earth is as feasible as it is handy. In fact, the current loss and waste of one-third of… Continue Reading
By Jennifer Calfas – Money (Dow Jones, Time Inc) The richest people in the world have a staggering amount of wealth — comparable to the GDP of small countries for some. Many of the world’s richest, like Microsoft founder Bill… Continue Reading
EDITORIAL, Johan Galtung* – TRANSCEND Media Service Trump is trumping himself by making America Last, not in the sense of long-lasting, but in the sense of going down. There is something to learn for those receptive to learning, and Islam puts… Continue Reading
By António Guterres* António Guterres, Secretary-General of the United Nations, in his remarks on International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women UNITED NATIONS, Nov 23 2017 (IPS) – Every woman and every girl has the right to a… Continue Reading
Leonardo Boff* Whenever a World Social Forum is celebrated, a World Forum of the Theology of Liberation is also celebrated three days earlier. More than two thousand persons who work in this type of theology from every Continent participated: from South Korea, several African… Continue Reading
By Basildon Peta* – The Guardian Mugabe is gone but the Mugabe state lives on. The early poll British ministers and others are demanding would strengthen Zanu PF’s stranglehold on power To fully understand the euphoria that greeted the news… Continue Reading
By SPENGLER / Asia Times The Crown Prince has set off a complex chain reaction of political moves that affect the region’s political and economic stability Morbid curiosity draw attention to the real-life Game of Thrones now playing out in Saudi… Continue Reading
By Chakravarthi Raghavan* – SUNS Geneva, 21 Nov – As issues relating to the monopolistic/oligopolistic control over information and data by the Silicon Valley technology giants and their platforms are beginning to attract adverse public and political attention around the… Continue Reading
By John Nichols* – The Nation It has rewritten media-ownership rules to benefit giant corporations, including the pro-Trump Sinclair Broadcasting. Eighty years ago, the dawn of the modern communications age coincided with the rise of authoritarian leaders who controlled and… Continue Reading
By NORIMITSU ONISHI and JEFFREY MOYONOV – The New York Times HARARE, Zimbabwe — Robert Mugabe, who has ruled Zimbabwe since independence in 1980, resigned as president on Tuesday shortly after lawmakers began impeachment proceedings against him, according to the… Continue Reading
By DAVID SCOTT MATHIESON* – Asia Times Myanmar de facto leader conflated illegal migration with terrorism in a keynote speech, adding her voice to the Islamophobia that has justified persecution of the Rohingya YANGON, NOVEMBER 21, 2017 . Myanmar’s increasingly internationally maligned… Continue Reading
BY ISHAAN THAROOR – The Washington Post Last week in Bonn, the former capital of West Germany, the most unwelcome attendees at a U.N. summit on climate policy may have been the members of the delegation representing the Trump administration. President… Continue Reading
Opinion, A.S. Panneerselvan – The Hindu A collective effort is needed to retrieve the information space For the last couple of years, Cathy O’Neil, a data scientist and author of the bookWeapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality… Continue Reading
Analysis, MIKAELA NHONDO ERSKOG – The Daily Maverick, Johannesburg Bulking military tanks and armed troops have halted the usual blustering traffic and street vending activities down Samora Machel Avenue in central Harare. Leaders of the ruling party have reportedly been… Continue Reading
By Pascal Laureyn PHNOM PENH, Nov 17 2017 (IPS) – The government had an almost paranoid fear of protests. A square kilometer around the Supreme Court was barricaded and off limits to the public. In faraway provinces, roadblocks were erected… Continue Reading
