By Michael Bloomberg* – Newsweek Earlier this week, reporters asked me why I was in Madrid for the U.N. climate summit rather than back home on the campaign trail. The answer was simple: I went because President Donald Trump refused… Continue Reading
Analysis, by Eduardo Tamayo G., Helga Serrano Narváez – ALAI Ecuador is undergoing a general strike against austerity measures, while transport disruptions, road blocks and protests have already been agitating the country for a week, meeting with actions of fierce… Continue Reading
By Mohamad Bazzi* – The Nation For Trump, outrage over the slaying of the journalist was just the cost of doing business with Saudi Arabia. On the afternoon of October 2, 2018, Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi walked into the kingdom’s… Continue Reading
Carol D. Leonnig, Shane Harris e Josh Dawsey – The Washington Post In one of his first calls with a head of state, President Trump fawned over Russian President Vladimir Putin, telling the man who ordered interference in America’s 2016… Continue Reading
By Roberto Savio* Opening reflections for the September 2019 GTN forum LOOKING BACK The first World Social Forum in 2001 ushered in the new century with a bold affirmation: “Another world is possible.” That gathering in Porto Alegre, Brazil, stood… Continue Reading
By Ishaan Tharoor* – The Washington Post A year ago, Jamal Khashoggi — a Saudi commentator and dissident living in de facto exile — entered his nation’s consulate in Istanbul, never to return. The months since Khashoggi’s abduction and brutal… Continue Reading
By Blerim Mustafa* GENEVA, Sep 2019 (IPS) – Increasing economic inequality is a defining challenge of our time. In recent years, it has triggered analysis and reflection by many scholars, politicians and others on its causes and consequences on economic… Continue Reading
By Ishaan Tharoor* – The Washington Post NEW YORK — About two years ago, Bangladesh let in some 750,000 Rohingya people fleeing a military-led campaign of ethnic cleansing on the other side of the border. Authorities in Myanmar view the… Continue Reading
By Rym Momtaz – POLITICO Document seen by POLITICO was basis for meeting and negotiations PARIS 10/1/19 — Donald Trump and Hassan Rouhani agreed on a four-point document brokered by Emmanuel Macron in New York last week as a basis… Continue Reading
By Laura Gil – Africa Renewal (through IPS) VIENNA, Dec 7 2018 (IPS) – Years back, nuclear energy was a fancy option limited to the industrialized world. In due course, nuclear could be an energy source for much of Africa,… Continue Reading
James Pennington and Ariel Kastner – World Economic Forum (WEF) As world leaders gather in Katowice, Poland for the 24th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP24), signs are evident that several long-time… Continue Reading
By José Ramos-Horta* Regional and Multilateral Systems Inadequate As I stared at the picture of seven-year-old Amal Hussain dying of hunger I couldn’t contain my anguish, tears flooding my eyes. Some hours earlier I was wining and dining with friends… Continue Reading
Hazel Henderson * – Ethical Markets Media We humans are at the absurd stage in our technological evolution when we seem to have abandoned our common sense. Billions are spent by governments, corporations and investors in training computer-based algorithms (i.e.… Continue Reading
By Ben Aris – bne IntelliNews I’m going to get into trouble asking this question. The problem is that the whole situation in the conflict between Russia and Ukraine has become so emotional and polarised that even suggesting Russia is… Continue Reading
Human Wrongs Watch – UN Environment It is still possible to keep global warming below 2°C, but the technical feasibility of bridging the 1.5°C gap is dwindling. Global CO2 emissions increased in 2017, after a three-year period of stabilization. If the emissions… Continue Reading
By Jessica Loudis* – The Nation The country’s treatment of its Rohingya minority is vexing tourists, but not enough to stop the violence In 2014, the New York Times travel section published a feature on Myanmar. Declaring it was the… Continue Reading
By Busani Bafana* NAIROBI, Nov 2018 (IPS) – Africa risks being the worst plastic-polluted place on earth within three decades overtaking Asia, says a continental network calling for African contributions to solving the growing threat of marine waste. “Plastic pollution… Continue Reading
Analysis by Roland Oliphant* – The Telegraph If you were to looking for a time to re-ignite the slumbering conflict between Russia and Ukraine, Sunday would have been a good choice. With European leaders preoccupied with Brexit and the president… Continue Reading
Walter Shapiro* – The Guardian The president thinks justice only matters as it affects him. As his defenders fall away, he may find this all too painfully true A rational president, who had just bludgeoned Brett Kavanaugh onto the supreme… Continue Reading
By Daniel Gutman “In the south, Argentina had the worst drought in 50 years this year, after crops had been lost to flooding the previous year. And in the Caribbean, Dominica’s entire agricultural crop disappeared from the map in 2017… Continue Reading
