Danny Holt* – Newsweek Last Monday, the Trump administration announced a new expedited removal policy, expanding the Department of Homeland Security’s power to deport more immigrants with increased speed. This news comes on the heels of a series of raids… Continue Reading
By Amy Harder* – Axios Over the last nine months, calls to address climate change have become a powerful new social movement. Driving the news: Climate change has traditionally not spawned intense, organized and continued protest. That’s been gradually changing, and since November with… Continue Reading
By Jeet Heer*- The Nation The president wants African Americans to kiss his ring Donald Trump is mercurial even in his racism. A bigot but also a flibbertigibbet, Trump has a tendency to move rapidly from expressions of contempt for… Continue Reading
By Anis Chowdhury and Jomo Kwame Sundaram (*) SYDNEY and KUALA LUMPUR, Jul 30 2019 (IPS) – July 2019 saw the 75th anniversary of the historic conference of 44 countries held at the Bretton Woods (BW) resort in New Hampshire… Continue Reading
By Daniel Aldana Cohen* – The Nation The climate crisis is converging with a housing crisis. We need to tackle both with a Green New Deal for Housing. The heat is on. A heat wave is breaking records across much… Continue Reading
By Felix Dodds * NEW YORK, Jul 29 2019 (IPS) – As some of you will know I have a new book out Stakeholder Democracy: Represented Democracy in a Time of Fear. (other contributors to the book were: Jan-Gustav Strandenaes, Carolina Duque Chopitea,… Continue Reading
By Thalif Deen* UNITED NATIONS, Jul 26 2019 (IPS) – The United States is no exception to the practice of modern day slavery—a crime for which it is rarely held accountable at the United Nations. A rash of hidden crimes… Continue Reading
by Aveek Sen*– Lobelog** Iran’s Revolutionary Guards announced on July 20 that they had seized the British-flagged tanker Stena Impero in the Strait of Hormuz. It was seen as a tit-for-tat move in retaliation for the British detention of the… Continue Reading
By Boaventura de Sousa Santos* The words that come to mind the most are astonishment and perplexity. The Brazilian government has slipped into the abyss of absurdity, into an absolute trivialization of abuse and aggression, into a gross violation of… Continue Reading
By Tom O’Connor* – Newsweek President Donald Trump’s decision to send additional U.S. military assets to the Persian Gulf region and the United Kingdom’s proposal to form a coalition of European forces to patrol the Strait of Hormuz may only… Continue Reading
Editorial If the UK’s new prime minister thinks he can sup with populists like Nigel Farage and Donald Trump over Brexit, he risks ending up as dessert The Conservative party has finally got a leader it deserves. As the UK’s… Continue Reading
Alissa Wise* – Newsweek Last week’s Trump campaign rally, with its sickening “send her back” chant, was undeniably shocking. The racist, blatant scapegoating, the casual slander and naked hatred were new lows, even for Trump—and I remain horrified and outraged.… Continue Reading
By Guillermo Sullings* – Pressenza, International Press Agency We often read statistics illustrating the accelerated concentration of wealth in the world; a few billionaires accumulate more wealth than the poorest half of the planet, and the richest 1% of the… Continue Reading
By Fernando Ayala* – Wall Street International Magazine United States, China and Russia in a dispute for world supremacy The rivalry between the great powers is best appreciated by examining them based on their respective power and in relation to… Continue Reading
Roberto Savio* When all is said and done, it appears that Thomas Hobbes, the 17th century English philosopher who had a dire vision of man, was not totally wrong. From the frivolous to the serious, in just a week we have… Continue Reading
Kenneth Roth – HRW ( in Público, Lisbon) New Strategy Needed for Second Half of Term When former Portuguese Prime Minister Antonio Guterres was elected United Nations secretary-general in 2016, many human rights activists welcomed the announcement. They hoped he… Continue Reading
Afua Hirsch – The Guardian As we’ve seen in the UK, attacking the identity of people of colour can be a route to political success Pity Donald Trump. Even his racism is the most unsophisticated kind. Every black and brown… Continue Reading
By Joe Cirincione and Mary Kaszynski* – LOBELOG** This is not a drill. A new Middle East war is coming, perhaps soon. Only dramatic political action by the American people and their political leaders can stop it. President Trump says… Continue Reading
By Paul R. Pillar* – LobeLog** Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has been justly criticized for his creation of a Commission on Unalienable Rights, with the mission of redefining human rights. The move appears designed to base the redefinition on religious doctrine… Continue Reading
By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard* – The Telegraph If the Europeans persist in treating the International Monetary Fund as a hereditary fiefdom, they will destroy the institution. Global credibility will wither away. Asians will take matters into their own hands. They will create… Continue Reading
