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 (they call it ‘investment’).
Robert Reich* – The Guardian The Mueller report looms but the president is doomed anyway – no one who screws the people so blatantly can win re-election Robert Mueller’s soon-to-be-delivered report will begin months of congressional investigations, subpoenas, court challenges…
Posted by Simon Lester – International Economic Law and Policy Blog This is from the U.S. statement at the February 25 DSB meeting: We also note that at least one Member has said that the United States should table its own proposal. The United States has made its views on these…
By Paul Krugman*, Opinion Columnist- The New York Times China can pay him off; places with rule of law can’t There’s been some good news on global trade lately: A full-scale U.S.-China trade war appears to be on hold, and may be avoided altogether. The bad news is that if we do…
Ariel Cohen* – Newsweek Watching Vladimir Putin threaten to wipe out your hometown of Washington, D.C. in a national address is an unnerving experience; especially when viewing it in Moscow. Lately, Putin has not been shy about flaunting his shiny new missiles—and using them, if…
By Ana Swanson and Alan Rappeport (*) –The New York Times WASHINGTON — As President Trump dangles the possibility of extending a March deadline to reach a trade deal with China, his advisers are trying to secure firm commitments from Beijing to purchase more American products…
Jean-Pierre Vettovaglia* A spark that lit a fire. The increase of the fuel tax was too much of a sacrifice imposed on the modest French homes invisible from the Élysée palace: suburbs and rural France!
By Jomo Kwame Sundaram* KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, Feb 19 2019 (IPS) – For two centuries, all too many discussions about hunger and resource scarcity has been haunted by the ghost of Parson Thomas Malthus. Malthus warned that rising populations would exhaust resources, especially…
By Keith Bradsher* – The New York Times BEIJING — Talks between the United States and China to end their trade war will continue in Washington next week, officials from both countries said on Friday, hours after high-level negotiations between American and Chinese diplomats…
By Asoka Bandarage* – Asia Times The 71st anniversary of Sri Lanka’s independence from British rule was celebrated on February 4 in a “gallant ceremony” at the Galle Face Green in Colombo. Geopolitical rivalry, foreign intervention and constitutional reform for political…
