By Paul Krugman – The New York Times We’re very close to becoming another Poland or Hungary Soon after the fall of the Berlin Wall, a friend of mine — an expert on international relations — made a joke: “Now that Eastern Europe is free from the alien ideology of Communism, it…
By Sir Arthur Richard Jolly BRIGHTON, UK, Aug 28 2018 (IPS) – Kul Gautam’s memoir is everything which one hopes for from a good biography. There are difficulties all along the way, obstacles and challenges overcome and a vision pursued with extraordinary persistence in spite of…
By Ian Williams* UNITED NATIONS, Aug 27 2018 (IPS) – Looking at the deserved outpouring of eulogies over Kofi Annan I could not help remembering the advice of the old Latin saying, “Say nothing about the dead unless it’s good.” But one can’t help wishing that there had been more…
By Neil Macdonald · Opinion Columnist, CBC News Solutions for priestly abuse: wiretaps, search warrants, informers and ordaining women. Imagine for a moment that a big, admired multinational corporation, one selling a beloved product, was employing large numbers of male…
By Chris Patten* – Project Syndicate Authoritarian leaders worldwide are confronting mounting crises of their own making. But while Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin face slower-brewing challenges, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and US…
By MICHAEL KRUSE* – POLITICO MAGAZINE He fought the law—and won. Could he do it again? n the year and seven months Donald Trump has been the president he has pummeled the Department of Justice on a nearly daily basis. He has put “Justice” in scare quotes on Twitter.
By Jan Egeland * OSLO, Aug 2018 (IPS) – Aid funding for refugee relief is running out while conditions are still not in place for the safe return of over 700,000 people forced to flee Myanmar to neighbouring Bangladesh after violence broke out one year ago. The mass human…
by David Spratt and Ian Dunlop A new report entitled: “What Lies Beneath: The understatement of existential climate risk” authored by David Spratt and myself, has just been released via the Breakthrough National Centre for Climate Restoration in Melbourne, Australia. Available…
By Tom O’Connor – Newsweek Germany’s top diplomat has argued that Europe should create a new system for financial transactions that would exclude the U.S., which has abandoned a nuclear deal with Iran and threatened sanctions against those who stood by it. Germany has joined…
By Mort Rosenblum * – Mort Report Empty Seas: One ALASSIO, Italy – If you hate those salted fishy slivers on pizza, Giuseppe Cormaci has encouraging news. Mediterranean anchovies tanked this year.
