Sophie Pinkham* – The Guardian This irresponsible stunt has severely undermined both Ukraine’s credibility and that of honest journalism On Tuesday, the news spread quickly: Russian dissident journalist Arkady Babchenko had been shot three times just outside his apartment in… Continue Reading
By Phillip Orchard – Geopolitical Futures The Chinese Communist Party may finally be getting out of the family planning business. Three years ago, the party scrapped its infamous one-child policy. Last week, Bloomberg reported that China’s State Council is mulling… Continue Reading
By Saleemul Huq * – The Daily Star, Bangladesh May 30 2018 – The Green Climate Fund (GCF) was set up under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) to channel much of the USD 100 billion a… Continue Reading
Robert J. Burrowes* In a recent article titled ‘Challenges for Resolving Complex Conflicts’, I pointed out that existing conflict theory pays little attention to the extinction-causing conflict being ongoingly generated by human over-consumption in the finite planetary biosphere (and, among… Continue Reading
Posted by Yves Smith* – Naked Capitalism Italian politics are messy even at the best of times. The battle over forming a government took a nasty turn. We’ll give a short overview and then make a few observations, in the… Continue Reading
By Daniel Boffey * A case is being pursued against the European parliament and the council of the EU for allowing overly high greenhouse gas emissions to continue. Lawyers acting for a group including a French lavender farmer and members… Continue Reading
Kumi Naidoo* – Project Syndicate Not since 1951 has the international community produced a treaty to protect the legal status of the world’s refugees. Now, two agreements are currently under discussion at the United Nations, and each offers a rare… Continue Reading
By Steven Donziger* – The Huffington Post The Real Irrefutable Truths About the Company’s Toxic Dumping and Fraud More than 20 years ago, indigenous and farmer communities in Ecuador’s Amazon went to court in the United States to seek compensation… Continue Reading
By Barbara Crossette* – The Nation Unlike Nikki Haley, his aim is destruction, not repair It did not take very long after the appointment of John Bolton as Donald Trump’s national security adviser for the United Nations universe—diplomats, the Secretariat,… Continue Reading
By Dylan Selterman* – National Geographic Magazine. If everyone’s success depended on it, would you share—or be selfish? I teach undergraduate psychology courses at the University of Maryland, and my classes draw students with diverse interests. But every one of… Continue Reading
Editorial Donald Trump’s meeting was all about grabbing plaudits for his over-sized ego rather than a serious effort to achieve peace on the Korean peninsula The commemorative summit coin has just been minted, but the peace efforts are already spent.… Continue Reading
By Maged Srour ROME, May 2018 (IPS) – According to the latest report by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), in total, countries around the world spent $ 1.739 billion on arms in 2017. Although there was a marginal… Continue Reading
Géraldine Schwarz* – The Guardian In Germany and elsewhere, younger generations are becoming indifferent to the history of fascism. This is how the far right thrives In Aistersheim, a village in north-west Austria, a pale yellow castle towers over a… Continue Reading
By Nicole Goodkind * – Newsweek t’s been a good year for financial companies. U.S. Banks profited by a record breaking $56 billion during the first quarter of 2018, up 27.5 percent from the year prior, because of tax cuts and… Continue Reading
BY BRANKO MARCETIC – Jacobin (*) The Russian Facebook ads that destroyed American democracy have now been released. Try not to laugh — it’s serious business. Adam Schiff (D-CA) speaks about today’s testimony on Russian interference in the 2016 election… Continue Reading
By Paul Krugman* – The New York Times If you had to identify a place and time where the humanitarian dream — the vision of a society offering decent lives to all its members — came closest to realization, that place… Continue Reading
By Fred Hiatt* – The Washington Post With North Korea and other challenges, President Trump can succeed where others have failed, we are told, because he is so unpredictable. In fact, he is proving to be the most predictable of presidents.… Continue Reading
Gareth Dorrian and Ian Whittaker – The Conversation UK Disclosure statement The authors do not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organisation that would benefit from this article, and have disclosed no relevant… Continue Reading
By David Brooks* – The New York Times As you know, everybody sees the Middle East through his or her own narrative. Conservatives see it through the “front line in the war on terror” narrative and defend Israel’s actions on the… Continue Reading
by John Scales Avery * I would like to announce the publication of a new book entitled “The Information Explosion”. This book discusses the role of information in evolution, and especially in the evolution of human culture. Articles and book… Continue Reading
