By David Brennan – Newsweek Global wealth inequality is continuing to reward a handful of billionaires at the expense of the world’s poorest people, a new report has warned On its “Public Good or Private Wealth” report, development charity Oxfam noted that the 26 richest…
By Roberto Savio* ROME – After Teresa May’s defeat in the British parliament on January 15, it is clear that a new spectre is haunting Europe. It is no longer the spectre of communism, which opens Marx’s Manifesto of 1848; it is the spectre of the failure of neoliberal…
by Eldar Mamedov* – LobeLog During his trip to the Middle East the Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced an international summit in Warsaw on February 13-14 to “promote freedom, peace and stability in the Middle East.” Such objectives, judging by his own rhetoric, seem to be…
By George Friedman* – Geopolitical Futures As population growth booms and slows, the only constant is panic The United States appears to be facing a possible population crisis. Statistics from the National Institutes for Health show that the U.S. birthrate has declined to the…
Becker*- Presidential Climate Action Project (PCAP) Deep in the inner sanctums of the federal bureaucracy, Donald Trump’s lieutenants are writing the early drafts of the President’s State of the Union address, coming up on Jan. 29. It’s possible that the annual speech will be…
By Anis Chowdhury and Jomo Kwame Sundaram SYDNEY & KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 15 2019 (IPS) – In light of the uncertainty caused by the US-China trade war, the IMF expects the US economic growth to slow from a three-year high of 2.9 per cent in 2018 to 2.5 per cent in 2019, while…
By Phillip Orchard – Geopolitical Futures The new trade agreement has the same goals as its predecessor – but it’s missing one key member The Trans-Pacific Partnership may have life in it yet. On his first day in office, nearly two years ago, U.S.
Roberto Savio* ROME, Jan 8 2019- The person most qualified to write the foreword for this latest work by Riccardo Petrella, In the Name of Humanity, would actually be Pope Francis, who, using other words but speaking of values and making denouncements, has often argued what the…
Phillip Inman – The Guardian / The Observer Jim Yong Kim has announced he is stepping down as the head of the World Bank, in a move that sent shockwaves through the international aid community. He will leave by 1 February, three and a half years before the expiry of his term in…
BY ISHAAN THAROOR* – The Washington Post British Prime Minister Theresa May may be on her last legs. Last month, she delayed a parliamentary vote on her much-maligned Brexit deal with Brussels, fearing it would go down in flames — and take her government with it.
