By Nicole Goodkind * – Newsweek t’s been a good year for financial companies. Banks profited by a record breaking $56 billion during the first quarter of 2018, up 27.5 percent from the year prior, because of tax cuts and a growing economy.
BY BRANKO MARCETIC – Jacobin (*) The Russian Facebook ads that destroyed American democracy have now been released. Try not to laugh — it’s serious business. Adam Schiff (D-CA) speaks about today’s testimony on Russian interference in the 2016 election from US Attorney General…
By Paul Krugman* – The New York Times If you had to identify a place and time where the humanitarian dream — the vision of a society offering decent lives to all its members — came closest to realization, that place and time would surely be Western Europe in the six decades…
By Fred Hiatt* – The Washington Post With North Korea and other challenges, President Trump can succeed where others have failed, we are told, because he is so unpredictable. In fact, he is proving to be the most predictable of presidents.
Gareth Dorrian and Ian Whittaker – The Conversation UK Disclosure statement The authors do not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organisation that would benefit from this article, and have disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their…
By David Brooks* – The New York Times As you know, everybody sees the Middle East through his or her own narrative. Conservatives see it through the “front line in the war on terror” narrative and defend Israel’s actions on the Gaza border fence this week.
by John Scales Avery * I would like to announce the publication of a new book entitled “The Information Explosion”. This book discusses the role of information in evolution, and especially in the evolution of human culture.
Analysis by Bill Powell* – Newsweek For years, he’s been seen as a naïf or a madman. But what if Kim Jong Un is the smartest guy in the room? In early 2012, a few months after North Korean leader Kim Jong Il was buried in an elaborate state funeral, I found myself in the…
By David Scott Mathieson* – Asia Times It is becoming obvious government’s peace process is really cover to sustain conflict and sow divisions among ethnic armed groups As Myanmar security officials surrounded peaceful anti-war protestors in Yangon on May 12, dispersing a…
Amira Hass – Haaretz, Tel Aviv (*) What is cowardice if not the decision to kill masses of unarmed detainees who are demonstrating against their prolonged imprisonment? –Why is Israel using lethal force against the protesters of Gaza? — Jerusalem celebrates, Tel Aviv parties…
