By Maged Srour ROME, May 2018 (IPS) – According to the latest report by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), in total, countries around the world spent $ 1.739 billion on arms in 2017. Although there was a marginal increase of 1.1 percent rise in real…
Géraldine Schwarz* – The Guardian In Germany and elsewhere, younger generations are becoming indifferent to the history of fascism. This is how the far right thrives In Aistersheim, a village in north-west Austria, a pale yellow castle towers over a frozen lake, as if out of a…
BY BRANKO MARCETIC – Jacobin (*) The Russian Facebook ads that destroyed American democracy have now been released. Try not to laugh — it’s serious business. Adam Schiff (D-CA) speaks about today’s testimony on Russian interference in the 2016 election from US Attorney General…
By Paul Krugman* – The New York Times If you had to identify a place and time where the humanitarian dream — the vision of a society offering decent lives to all its members — came closest to realization, that place and time would surely be Western Europe in the six decades…
By Fred Hiatt* – The Washington Post With North Korea and other challenges, President Trump can succeed where others have failed, we are told, because he is so unpredictable. In fact, he is proving to be the most predictable of presidents.
By David Scott Mathieson* – Asia Times It is becoming obvious government’s peace process is really cover to sustain conflict and sow divisions among ethnic armed groups As Myanmar security officials surrounded peaceful anti-war protestors in Yangon on May 12, dispersing a…
By John Scales Avery * I would like to announce the publication of a new book entitled “The Devil’s Dynamo”. It is a collection of articles and book chapters that I have written about the way in which military-industrial complexes throughout the world drive and perpetuate the…
