BY FERNANDO AYALA* – Wall Street International Magazine The call of Madrid: Zero Hunger by 2030 and the Alarm against the Epidemic of Obesity On October 29 and 30, 2018, the first World Parliamentary Summit against Hunger and Malnutrition was held in Madrid, organized by FAO and…
Editorial The French president needs to find a way to tackle both climate change and the anger on the streets Almost two decades ago a new fresh-faced leader of the centre-left emerged in Europe and appeared, having won a historic election, on the cusp of changing politics in…
Hazel Henderson * – Ethical Markets Media We humans are at the absurd stage in our technological evolution when we seem to have abandoned our common sense. Billions are spent by governments, corporations and investors in training computer-based algorithms (i.e. computer…
by Kul Chandra Gautam (nepa-laya, Kathmandu, 2018) Book review by Valerie Julliand, UN Resident Coordinator in Nepal Kul Chandra Gautam’s extraordinary memoir resonates on so many levels, depending on one’s perspective. I trekked through its more than 500 pages as a…
University of Pennsylvania – EurekAlert! * A study from the Annenberg School for Communication shows that exposure to anonymous, bipartisan social networks can lead liberals and conservatives to improve their forecasting of global-climate trends Social media networks, which…
By Paul Krugman – The New York Times We’re very close to becoming another Poland or Hungary Soon after the fall of the Berlin Wall, a friend of mine — an expert on international relations — made a joke: “Now that Eastern Europe is free from the alien ideology of Communism, it…
By Sir Arthur Richard Jolly BRIGHTON, UK, Aug 28 2018 (IPS) – Kul Gautam’s memoir is everything which one hopes for from a good biography. There are difficulties all along the way, obstacles and challenges overcome and a vision pursued with extraordinary persistence in spite of…
By Neil Macdonald · Opinion Columnist, CBC News Solutions for priestly abuse: wiretaps, search warrants, informers and ordaining women. Imagine for a moment that a big, admired multinational corporation, one selling a beloved product, was employing large numbers of male…
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 from Chevron for harm caused…
