By Alexander Zaitchik* – Foreign Policy Indigenous people, not environmentalists, are the key to protecting the world’s most precious ecosystems In February, a group of Cofán men dressed in dark tunics and bandoliers studded with forest seeds gathered around a fire pit in…
By Roberto Savio* ROME – According to the latest statistics, the total flow of immigrants so far in 2018 is 50.000 people, compared with 186,768 last year, 1,259,955 in 2016 and 1,327,825 in 2015. The difference between reality and perceptions is so astonishing, we are clearly…
ScienceDaily’s * The consequences of climate change are immense, and believed by many experts to be largely irreversible (and exponential), causing threats coming from heat waves, flooding, declines in agriculture, and decreasing biodiversity, to name a few. Given that climate…
By William Roberts – Al Jazeera News Helsinki summit comes days after 12 Russians are charged for hacking Democrat emails to tilt US vote in Trump’s favour Just as he did in Singapore with Kim Jong-un last month, US President Donald Trump kicked off his Monday meeting in Finland…
By Jennifer Clark* – NBC News Digital Does the European Union need its own Ellis Island? One thing’s for sure: The EU desperately needs a better policy to deal with undocumented migrants Europe’s leaders have taken a small step towards a common migration policy with their…
BY IAN BURUMA*– ASIA TIMES Comparing today’s demagogues with Adolf Hitler is almost always unwise. Such alarmism tends to trivialize the actual horrors of the Nazi regime and distracts attention from our own political problems.
By Tharanga Yakupitiyage IPS correspondent Tharanga Yakupitiyage spoke to Robert Scholes, ecologist and co-chair of Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Service (IPBES) assessment, about land degradation and efforts needed to halt and reverse…
Ewen MacAskill* – The Guardian European members contradict assertion that US president secured notable concessions Donald Trump has claimed victory at the Nato summit, saying progress had been made on defence spending only hours after throwing the Brussels meeting intodisarray…
By Thalif Deen* UNITED NATIONS, Jul 12 2018 (IPS) – A long standing proposal for the creation of a UN Parliamentary Assembly (UNPA) is slowly gathering momentum. The 751-member European Parliament (EP) in Strasbourg has called on the European Union (EU) to extend its support for…
By Richard Fontaine and Vance Serchuk – The Atlantic The trans-Atlantic alliance has seen worse As President Trump kicks off a bruising NATO summit, trans-Atlantic relations are said to be in the grip of an unprecedented crisis. On multiple fronts—defense spending, Iran…
