By Chandran Nair* Address migration’s root causes: Rather than fund walls, nations could end wars and offer development aid to help people stay at home HONG KONG: A freighter trundles into a harbor, carrying several hundred migrants escaping war. Authorities discover them and…
Robert Reich*, Opinion – Newsweek After his first bizarre year, his apologists told us Donald Trump was growing into the job and that in his second year he’d be more restrained and respectful of democratic institutions. He’s been worse.
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…
Human Wrongs Watch ( By teleSUR) A green wave hit Argentina, the case of murdered activist Berta Caceras brought to justice, and Central American refugees treked to the U.S. Central American Exodus – Migrant Caravan: Migrants Find Strength in Unity Over 10,000 Central…
Paul Raskin* We are bound together on a precarious passage to a land unknown and unnamed. Even a stray dog, as Hannah Arendt once noted, has better odds of surviving when given a name. Likewise, the global future—the place we are going—needs an identity to encourage us to own…
By Reva Goujon* – Stratfor Highlights: –Referendums are a compelling tool to engage the public when it has lost faith in the ability of political institutions to uphold a social contract. It is little wonder, then, that referendums have seen a resurgence alongside the rise of…
Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers (*) – Truthdig The Pentagon’s own numbers show that it can’t account for $21 trillion. Yes, I mean trillion with a “T.” And this could change everything. But I’ll get back to that in a moment. There are certain things the human mind is not meant…
By Craig Timberg , Tony Romm and Elizabeth Dwoskin – The Washington Post Months after President Trump took office, Russia’s disinformation teams trained their sights on a new target: special counsel Robert S. Having worked to help get Trump into the White House, they now worked…
Of Cockroaches and Humans By Roberto Savio* Rita Levi-Montalcini, the Italian Nobel laureate honoured for her work in neurobiology, once gave a splendid conference with the title “The imperfect brain”. There she explained that man has a brain that is not used completely, while…
Burrowes* While it is now very late in the life cycle of homo sapiens, with extinction now due to consign us to Earth’s fossil record – see ‘Will humans be extinct by 2026?’ – I would like to make a belated pitch for the importance of the human individual and why nurturing each…
