By Ishaan Tharoor * – The Washington Post DAVOS, Switzerland — In some ways, the agenda at this year’s World Economic Forum — the annual conclave of the global elite — is not that different from the deliberations of 2018. There will be declarations about the struggle against…
By Roberto Savio* ROME – After Teresa May’s defeat in the British parliament on January 15, it is clear that a new spectre is haunting Europe. It is no longer the spectre of communism, which opens Marx’s Manifesto of 1848; it is the spectre of the failure of neoliberal…
By Anis Chowdhury and Jomo Kwame Sundaram SYDNEY & KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 15 2019 (IPS) – In light of the uncertainty caused by the US-China trade war, the IMF expects the US economic growth to slow from a three-year high of 2.9 per cent in 2018 to 2.5 per cent in 2019, while…
By Phillip Orchard – Geopolitical Futures The new trade agreement has the same goals as its predecessor – but it’s missing one key member The Trans-Pacific Partnership may have life in it yet. On his first day in office, nearly two years ago, U.S.
Roberto Savio* ROME, Jan 8 2019- The person most qualified to write the foreword for this latest work by Riccardo Petrella, In the Name of Humanity, would actually be Pope Francis, who, using other words but speaking of values and making denouncements, has often argued what the…
BY ISHAAN THAROOR* – The Washington Post British Prime Minister Theresa May may be on her last legs. Last month, she delayed a parliamentary vote on her much-maligned Brexit deal with Brussels, fearing it would go down in flames — and take her government with it.
Burrowes* In many ways it is painful to reflect on the year 2018; a year of vital opportunities lost when so much is at stake. Whether politically, militarily, socially, economically, financially or ecologically, humanity took some giant strides backwards while passing up…
By Branislav Gosovic* GENEVA, Dec 21 2018 (IPS) – The upcoming conference on the Buenos Aires Plan of Action (BAPA+40), scheduled to take place in the Argentine capital on 20-22 March 2019, ought to be more than just another UN conference where the developing countries assemble…
By Jomo Kwame Sundaram (*) and Anis Chowdhury KUALA LUMPUR & SYDNEY, Dec 18 2018 (IPS) – The notion of the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and later, South Africa) was concocted by Goldman Sachs’ Jim O’Neill. His 2001 acronym was initially seen as a timely, if not…
BY HAZEL HENDERSON* – Ethical Markets Media In 1986 Scientific American drew attention to this visual of space junk tracked by NORAD, 7,000 spent rocket debris and the 40,000 objects with a diameter of 10 centimeters or more. I used this visual in many of my presentations in…
