By Fernando Reyes Matta* There are three fears that cross citizenship in different parts of the world: a) the fear of how work life will be changed by automation and robotics; b) the fear of stress in urban life, if the… Continue Reading
By Ellen Brown* – Truthdig Payments can happen cheaply and easily without banks or credit card companies, as has already been demonstrated—not in the United States but in China. Unlike in the U.S., where numerous firms feast on fees from… Continue Reading
By François Delattre* – The New York Times My experience at the United Nations Security Council over the last five years has led me to see a harsh truth: The world is growing more dangerous and less predictable by the day.… Continue Reading
By Hazel Henderson, LaRae Long, Timothy Jack Nash Reference suggestion: Henderson, H., Long, L. and Nash, T. “Transitioning to Science-Based Investing”, 2019 Green Transition Scoreboard® Report, Ethical Markets Media, May 2019. © 2019 Ethical Markets Media, LLC This report does… Continue Reading
By GURSHABAD GROVER* – The Indian Express India needs to prove company aids Chinese government, or risk playing into US hands. The Trump administration has not only passed orders restricting the US government and its departments from procuring networking equipment from… Continue Reading
By David E. Sanger* – The New York Times President Trump has finally succeeded in building his wall: not the one he keeps demanding on the southwestern border, but a far more complex barrier meant to block China’s national telecommunications… Continue Reading
By Jomo Kwame Sundaram and Anis Chowdhury (*) KUALA LUMPUR and SYDNEY, May 7 2019 (IPS) – Over the last four decades, growing concentration of market power in the hands of oligopolies, if not monopolies, has been greatly enabled by… Continue Reading
Stefania Maurizi* – Newsweek “Man is least himself when he talks with his own person. Give a man a mask, and he will tell you the truth.” This famous quote from Oscar Wilde resounded in my head when, wandering around… Continue Reading
By Charlotte Graham-McLay – The New York Times WELLINGTON, New Zealand — New Zealand’s prime minister said on Wednesday that she would meet with French leaders next month in hopes of forging an agreement between governments and technology companies aimed… Continue Reading
By Ivan Katchanovski* – Special to Consortium News The new Ukrainian government is faced with reopening an inquiry into evidence of an organized mass killing in Kiev that Poroshenko stonewalled. Ivan Katchanovski investigates. Five years ago, the Maidan massacre in Kiev,… Continue Reading
By Alexandra Ellerbeck and Avi Asher-Schapiro (*) NEW YORK, Apr 2019 (IPS) – After a seven-year standoff at the Ecuadorean embassy in London, British police last week arrested WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange–a development press freedom advocates had long feared. For… Continue Reading
by Tyler Durden – ZeroHedge (*) – via John Pilger** The glimpse of Julian Assange being dragged from the Ecuadorean embassy in London is an emblem of the times. Might against right. Muscle against the law. Indecency against courage. Six policemen… Continue Reading
By Nelsy Lizarazo* ~Pressenza, International Press Agency 12.04.2019 – Quito, Ecuador Pressenza interviewed Javier Arcentales Illescas, Human Mobility Advisor of the Ombudsman’s Office of Ecuador, an institution that spoke today about the detention of Julian Assange, at the consulate of… Continue Reading
Dan Collyns* – The Guardian President Lenín Moreno made little secret of his desire to evict Assange from embassy building Ecuador’s decision to allow police to arrest Julian Assange inside its embassy on Thursday follows a fraught and acrimonious period… Continue Reading
Jamie Grierson, Haroon Siddique and Patrick Wintour – The Guardian Fears that WikiLeaks founder will be extradited to the US if he leaves London embassy Supporters of the WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange gathered outside the Ecuadorian embassy in central London… Continue Reading
By Ignacio Torres* – PRESSENZA – International News Agency Santiago, Chile – Redacción Chile . The terrorist attack perpetrated by white supremacists in New Zealand has had as an even more brutal feature with the live streaming by one of the killers… Continue Reading
By Baher Kamal * – Human Wrongs Watch 28 February 2019 (Wall Street International) — Do not panic! This is not about telling you how bank accounts and pension funds have been used to finance the production of nuclear bombs… Continue Reading
By Simon Jenkins* – The Guardian A Commons report lays bare horrifying abuses. But the UK is no closer to regulating the far-too-powerful tech industry Death threats, bullying, mental torture, privacy invasion, election rigging, fake news, monopoly abuse: as was… Continue Reading
By Farhad Manjoo* – The New York Times A radical idea is gaining adherents on the left. It’s the perfect way to blunt tech-driven inequality. Last fall, Tom Scocca, editor of the essential blog Hmm Daily, wrote a tiny, searing post… Continue Reading
By Chakravarthi Raghavan and Jomo Kwame Sundaram (*) GENEVA and KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 2019 (IPS) – In Davos in late January, several powerful governments and their allies announced their intention to launch new negotiations on e-commerce. Unusually, the intention is… Continue Reading
