TIME The Austrian government said Wednesday that it won’t sign a global compact to promote safe and orderly migration, citing concerns about national sovereignty as it joined neighboring Hungary in shunning the agreement. Conservative Chancellor Sebastian Kurz took office last… Continue Reading
By Baher Kamal* – Human Wrongs Watch The migration of some 1.4 million people every week to cities around the world “can strain local capacities, contributing to increased risk from natural and human made disasters’” according to the United Nations… Continue Reading
Jake Johnson – Common Dreams/ Truthdig As Brazilian women, the LGBTQ community, workers, and people of color reacted with horror to the election of fascist Jair Bolsonaro to the presidency on Sunday after a campaign dripping in bigotry and militarism, Western corporate interests and the… Continue Reading
Robert J. Burrowes* The continuing rise of fascism around the world is drawing increasing attention particularly as it takes firmer grip within national societies long seen to have rejected it. Some recent studies have reminded us of the characteristics of… Continue Reading
Simon Tisdall* – Analysis, The Guardian Brazil’s voters followed a trend evident in embattled democracies around the world, and a wholesale rejection of politics-as-usual Jair Bolsonaro’s hard-right campaign for Brazil’s presidency shocked outside observers, who asked how a candidate with… Continue Reading
By Claire Stam*| EURACTIV.com – Human Wrongs Watch Only sixteen countries out of the 197 that have signed the Paris Agreement have defined national climate action plan ambitious enough to meet their pledges, according to a policy brief released on… Continue Reading
By Yula Rocha – Fast Company Far-right candidate Jair Bolsonaro, who openly longs for the return of military dictatorship, has gained in the election due to a swarm of fake news spread by the popular platform With just two days… Continue Reading
Al Jazeera As probe into journalist’s killing progresses, Erdogan ramps up pressure on Riyadh and says Turkey has more evidence Turkey has ramped up pressure on Saudi Arabia over the murder of Jamal Khashoggi, demanding Riyadh reveal who gave the… Continue Reading
David Nemer* – The Guardian WhatsApp has proved to be the ideal tool for mobilizing political support – and for spreading fake news If the Brexit vote and Donald Trump’s charge to the White House were jet-propelled by Facebook, the… Continue Reading
By Dr. Lee Ying-yuan* Oct 23 2018 – Continued growth in emissions of greenhouse gases around the world has caused abnormal and extreme weather events such as heatwaves, droughts, and catastrophic torrential rains. These events are no longer just abstract… Continue Reading
Analysis, by Adam Harvey* – ABC News The murder of one man has diminished two world leaders and revived the standing of a third. Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s reputation has been trashed by the death of journalist Jamal… Continue Reading
By David Brennan – Newsweek The main public broadcasting service in the Netherlands has been forced to apologize after one of its news articles seemed to use anti-Semitic tropes to describe billionaire philanthropist George Soros The article published online Tuesday… Continue Reading
Dana Nuccitelli* – The Guardian There’s a 97% expert consensus on human-caused global warming, but most Americans are unaware When queried about the most recent IPCC report, Republican lawmakers delivered a consistent, false message – that climate scientists are still… Continue Reading
By Thalif Deen * OTTAWA, Canada, Oct 23 2018 (IPS) – The international community will be commemorating two milestones in the history of population and development next year: the 50th anniversary of the UN Population Fund (UNFPA) and the 25th… Continue Reading
By Fernando Velázquez* The almighty god of technological progress demands countless sacrifices We sacrificed our time at first; navigating at all times and everywhere in that immense cloud of information called the Internet, and even we stay in it through… Continue Reading
By Chandran Nair * – China Watch The recent awarding of the Nobel Prize in Economics to William Nordhaus was hailed by most mainstream outlets as a pro-climate action decision, but this shows how limited people’s appreciation of the threats… Continue Reading
Jonathan Liew * – The Independent Football is the perfect arena for the unscrupulous populist and macho, nativist fantasies of a new breed of neo-fascists, writes Jonathan Liew Viktor Orban was in London earlier this month. It wasn’t a state… Continue Reading
George Eaton* – New Statesman. The End of History author on what Karl Marx got right, the rivals to liberal democracy and why he fears a US-China war. History is having its revenge on Francis Fukuyama. In 1992, at the height of… Continue Reading
Opinion, By Bret Stephens* – The New York Times A wink and a nod from Washington is the worst possible response to Riyadh’s butchery. Saudi Arabia’s apparent torture, murder and dismemberment of Jamal Khashoggi has been met in some quarters… Continue Reading
By Ralph Chami, Ekkehard Ernst, Connel Fullenkamp, and Anne Oeking* WASHINGTON DC, Oct 18 2018 (IPS) – Workers’ remittances—the money migrants send home to their families—command the attention of economists and policymakers because of their potential to improve the lives… Continue Reading
