By Robert Fisk* – The Independent Arab dictators have much in common with the British prime minister. They too know how to deal with ‘doomsters and gloomsters’ “I’ve worked out that in the past week, I’ve been told to wait “only five minutes” at least four times.
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, Minu Hemmati, Susanne Salz…
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 had four items of news which would not happen in a normal…
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 that Pompeo…
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.
Published by Focus on the Global South In the first half of 2019, a great deal of global attention focused on national elections in three countries where authoritarian regimes or personalities were in command of the state: Thailand, the Philippines, and India. The big question…
Alberto Nardelli* – BuzzFeed News A close aide to Italy’s deputy prime minister Matteo Salvini held covert talks to pump Russian oil money to his far-right party. BuzzFeed News has the tape Six men sat down for a business meeting on the morning of October 18 last year, amid the…
By Peter Adwok NYABA * It isn’t possible that people who’ve been struggling together against a common enemy for nearly six decades could turn in the end against themselves as if nothing strategic bounded them together. Many people in the civilized world find it difficult to…
MARIANNA BIRÓ – Index, Budapest Speaker of the Hungarian Parliament and chairman of Fidesz’s governing board László Kövér said that the establishment of administrative courts was only taken off the agenda until the international disputes around Hungary’s rule-of-law situation…
Burrowes* I have previously written many articles describing one or more aspects of the dysfunctional nature of the typical human mind, together with an explanation of how this came about and what we can do about it. See, for example, many of the articles republished in ‘Key…
