By Tharanga Yakupitiyage UNITED NATIONS, Jul 4 2018 (IPS) – Tackling the relentless conflict in Yemen has never been more urgent as it has pushed the Middle Eastern nation “deep into the abyss.” However, much can be learned from recent and ongoing initiatives. While a recent…
By Azam Ahmed and Ernesto Londoño (*) – The New York Times MEXICO CITY — Mexico’s presidential election, which has brought the party that governed the country for more than 70 years to the point of ruin, was the latest in a string of blistering defeats for incumbent parties…
By Presidential Climate Action Project / EcoCivilization —————– Trump’s Dangerous War with the Press By William S. Becker* – Presidential Climate Action Project Professional journalists are accustomed to doing their jobs under fire, whether it is bullets in a war zone…
By Robert Valencia* – Newsweek. Mexico chose left-l eaning Andrés Manuel López Obrador to become its 58th president for the next six years, in what is considered the country’s largest election in history.
Dana Nuccitelli*- The Guardian Like opposing civil rights and gay marriage, climate denial will drive voters away from the GOP The Republican Party is rotting away. The problem is that GOP policies just aren’t popular.
Jennifer Rankin – The Guardian Italy’s Conte ‘satisfied’ but Angela Merkel still needs to convince coalition partners she has a way to control immigration European leaders have papered over the divisions on migration with a promise that some EU countries would take in migrants…
The DAILY KOS* June 29, 2018 – Anthony Kennedy’s son works for Deutschbank and has loaned Trump over $1 billion in real estate loans. But as we have seen there’s no collusion, not even Russian collusion in the Trump regime.
Cohen* – The Nation If it actually occurs, never in the 75-year history of such US-Russian meetings will an American president have had so much opposition and so little support at home Discussing the apparent decision to hold a prepared Trump-Putin meeting in July, Cohen points…
By Gerardo Honty* – Alai Last June 13, the British Petroleum company presented, as they do every year, their Statistical Review of World Energy 2018. This is one of the reports often used by agents and analysts to understand the evolution of the energy sector at the global…
By Adam Entous* – The New Yorker How the President, Israel, and the Gulf states plan to fight Iran and leave the Palestinians and the Obama years behindnd On the afternoon of December 14, 2016, Ron Dermer, Israel’s Ambassador to the United States, rode from his Embassy to the…
