By Lee McIntyre* – The Conversation Most politicians lie. Or do they? Even if we could find some isolated example of a politician who was scrupulously honest – former President Jimmy Carter, perhaps – the question is how to think… Continue Reading
Jon Sharman* – The Independent Migrants ‘will be at greater risk from traffickers and other criminal groups’ if new security decree is implemented, say special rapporteurs A rise in hate attacks in Italy cannot be separated from politicians “unashamedly embracing racist and… Continue Reading
Analysis by Stephen Collinson – CNN Washington (CNN)It is the Trump doctrine laid bare. By letting Saudi Arabia get away with the murder of US-based journalist Jamal Khashoggi, the President sent a message of startling clarity about how the United… Continue Reading
Editorial Populism has arrived. Telling voters the problems that populist parties raise have no easy solution sounds like an excuse for inaction Across Europe, moderate politicians are anxious about the vitality of their democracies, the sturdiness of their institutions, the… Continue Reading
By Neta C. Crawford* The United States has appropriated and is obligated to spend an estimated $5.9 trillion on the war on terror through Fiscal Year 2019, including direct war and war-related spending and obligations for future spending on post-9/11… Continue Reading
By Cyrus Rustomjee* WINDSOR, England, Nov 20 2018 (IPS) – The blue economy—a concept and economic model that balances economic development with equity and environmental protection, and one that uses marine resources to meet current needs without compromising the ability… Continue Reading
BY ISHAAN THAROOR* – The Washington Post Saudi authorities have spent almost two months obfuscating what happened to slain journalist Jamal Khashoggi. All the while, the White House has played along, seeking to tamp down the outrage over Khashoggi’s murder… Continue Reading
By Diego Arguedas Ortiz* – BBC Future Images like that of a polar bear on a melting ice field are iconic. But in terms of getting people to act on climate change, they may be ineffective. Here’s why We’ve all… Continue Reading
By David Brennan – Newsweek Brazil’s new foreign minister believes climate change is part of a plot by so-called “globalists” to help China overtake western economies and destroy traditional culture Ernesto Araujo was appointed to the key post on Wednesday… Continue Reading
Richard Dalton* – The Guardian With demand for Iranian oil holding firm and no international support for sanctions, the US’s harsh approach has no future The US has declared economic war on Iran: after having pulled out of the UN… Continue Reading
Editorial Bangladesh appears poised to repatriate members of the Muslim minority who fled the campaign of violence against them. They would be at grave risk Bangladeshi soldiers, police and paramilitaries have already moved into the camps at Cox’s Bazar where… Continue Reading
By Hannah Osborne – Newsweek Three times more water is being sucked into Earth’s interior through its subduction zones than was previously thought, scientists have discovered. These huge fissures that scar the planet’s surface appear at the boundaries of tectonic… Continue Reading
By John Feffe – TomDispatch It’s called climate change, and we’re running out of time to solve it. The mid-term elections are over, and the Democrats have regained the House, but the rest of American political reality remains intact. Meanwhile,… Continue Reading
By Thalif Deen* UNITED NATIONS, Nov 14 2018 (IPS) – A former French president once remarked: Never pick a fight with a little kid or the press. The kid will throw the last stone at you and the press will… Continue Reading
By Joe Freeman – The Tricycle (*) Once hailed, now reviled: five takes on Myanmar’s de facto leader Thinking back, it was like a celebration. There was music, dancing, camaraderie, cheering. I stood in front of the headquarters of the… Continue Reading
By Norman Eisen and Jeffrey Gedmin (*) (CNN) If there is one painful lesson that we have learned in the 100 years since the end of World War I, it is that democracy’s friends on both sides of the Atlantic… Continue Reading
By James Carden* – The Nation Three new books make the case against a failed grand strategy In the nearly two years since President Donald J. Trump took office there has been an outpouring of commentary decrying the end of… Continue Reading
Raghu Murtugudde* – Newsweek In 2014, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) warned that limiting global warming to 2C by 2100 could not be achieved without employing technologies to drawdown carbon from the atmosphere. A recently released report by the… Continue Reading
Essay by Renato Moro* – Università degli Studi Roma Tre Do not underestimate Italy and Italians in politics, ever. Light and atrocity, spontaneity and passion, art and religion, beauty and crime have always been foreigners’ fundamental keys to understanding Italian… Continue Reading
Roberto Savio – Publisher of Other News It is with great sadness and sorrow that I have to inform that MarcoNapoli died. He was one of the key managers of IPS. He was the founder of IPS office in the… Continue Reading
