Burrowes* In a recent article titled ‘Challenges for Resolving Complex Conflicts’, I pointed out that existing conflict theory pays little attention to the extinction-causing conflict being ongoingly generated by human over-consumption in the finite planetary biosphere (and…
Posted by Yves Smith* – Naked Capitalism Italian politics are messy even at the best of times. The battle over forming a government took a nasty turn. We’ll give a short overview and then make a few observations, in the hopes of eliciting informed reader input.
By Daniel Boffey * A case is being pursued against the European parliament and the council of the EU for allowing overly high greenhouse gas emissions to continue. Lawyers acting for a group including a French lavender farmer and members of the indigenous Sami community in…
Kumi Naidoo* – Project Syndicate Not since 1951 has the international community produced a treaty to protect the legal status of the world’s refugees. Now, two agreements are currently under discussion at the United Nations, and each offers a rare opportunity to protect global…
By Steven Donziger* – The Huffington Post The Real Irrefutable Truths About the Company’s Toxic Dumping and Fraud More than 20 years ago, indigenous and farmer communities in Ecuador’s Amazon went to court in the United States to seek compensation from Chevron for harm caused…
By Barbara Crossette* – The Nation Unlike Nikki Haley, his aim is destruction, not repair It did not take very long after the appointment of John Bolton as Donald Trump’s national security adviser for the United Nations universe—diplomats, the Secretariat, organization outposts…
By Dylan Selterman* – National Geographic Magazine. If everyone’s success depended on it, would you share—or be selfish?
Editorial Donald Trump’s meeting was all about grabbing plaudits for his over-sized ego rather than a serious effort to achieve peace on the Korean peninsula The commemorative summit coin has just been minted, but the peace efforts are already spent. Donald Trump’s decision to…
By Maged Srour ROME, May 2018 (IPS) – According to the latest report by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), in total, countries around the world spent $ 1.739 billion on arms in 2017. Although there was a marginal increase of 1.1 percent rise in real…
Géraldine Schwarz* – The Guardian In Germany and elsewhere, younger generations are becoming indifferent to the history of fascism. This is how the far right thrives In Aistersheim, a village in north-west Austria, a pale yellow castle towers over a frozen lake, as if out of a…
