By Roy Morrison – EcoCivilization Local action on climate is both an essential and available path for ecological transformation. Local action does not require permission from Washington or from Paris. Action overcomes despair.
By Slawomir Sierakowski* – Project Syndicate After passing a controversial law proscribing any mention of Polish complicity in crimes committed by the Nazis in World War II, Poland’s populist government is now backpedaling. But as a new amendment shows, history by legislation…
Alex Lockie – Business Insider US The dire state of Turkey’s economy may be a consequence of a diplomatic misunderstanding between the country’s president and Donald Trump. Trump met Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan at a July NATO summit, and reportedly cut a deal on prisoner…
By APA News Egyptian-French economist Samir Amin died Sunday afternoon in Paris (France) from lung cancer at the age of 86, APA has learned from sources.“Samir was evacuated to Paris on July 31, 2018 from Dakar. Saturday he was able to leave the hospital to return to his house…
By Gordon n. Bardos* – The Nation Did Montenegro’s NATO accession increase the collective defense of the West or merely protect a corrupt regime? When Fox News host Tucker Carlson recently asked President Donald Trump why the United States should defend Montenegro, Trump…
Opinion by Michael Rothbaum* – Haaretz Just because white Jews are ethnically white doesn’t mean we, as individuals or as a state, should be ethically white. Adopting Trump and Netanyahu’s ethnic superiority and nationalism means sacrificing core Jewish values In Portland, I…
Barbora Cernušáková*, Opinion – Newsweek Next week, the head of Poland’s Supreme Court, Chief Justice Malgorzata Gersdorf, will go to work as usual, but her week is likely to be anything but normal. Judge Gersdorf was catapulted into the spotlight last month, after she defied a…
Jonathan Watts* Leading scientists warn that passing such a point would make efforts to reduce emissions increasingly futile A domino-like cascade of melting ice, warming seas, shifting currents and dying forests could tilt the Earth into a “hothouse” state beyond which human…
The Courier, HTC, Pacific Rim World News A right-wing pro-government newspaper has criticized a hugely popular exhibition of her work at the Hungarian National Gallery in Budapest for “promoting communism”. The criticism comes as part of a wider national debate on culture and…
Ian Buruma* – Project Syndicate The reputed mastermind of Donald Trump’s presidential campaign has launched a full-scale effort to unite Europe’s right-wing forces and bring down the European Union. But, as with European fascism in the 1920s and 1930s, the various strands of…
