By Frank Rijsberman* Apr 24 2018 (IPS) – On April 19-20, I attended the second Global Bioeconomy Summit in Berlin. Bioeconomy is currently a hot topic for scientists and policymakers. Rapid advances in molecular biology combined with big data and artificial intelligence have…
Ishaan Tharoor* – The Washington Post A couple of years ago, President Trump and French President Emmanuel Macron were shaking up the presidential races in both countries as maverick outsiders. This week, the pair will meet in Washington for an official state visit, one that…
By Mengpin Ge and Kelly Levin ( *) WASHINGTON DC, Apr 23 2018 (IPS) – In the lead up to the historic Paris Agreement on climate change, adopted in 2015, more than 160 countries and the European Union submitted their own plans to address climate change, known as Intended…
by Gerry Rodgers* – Indian Express Inequality has figured prominently in Brazil’s economic reforms. India’s liberalisation regime focused on removing poverty, but strains caused by inequalities are sharpening. Thirty years ago, income distribution in India was regarded as…
Becker * In the classic movie “The Graduate”, Dustin Hoffman plays a young man who has finished college without knowing what his career should be. One of his father’s friends takes him aside and whispers a single word of advice: “plastics”.
By William Greider* – The Nation It was “free trade” mania, pushed by both major political parties, that destroyed working-class prosperity and laid the groundwork for his triumph. Americans are tormented these days by an awkward contradiction—the loss of American triumphalism.
Sarah Meyerhoff* – The Guardian Pompeo is extreme in his denial of climate change. We must pressure Democrats who have backed him to change course “Ignorant, dangerous, and absolutely unbelievable.” This is how Mike Pompeo, then the nominee for CIA director, described the idea…
Blog Post by Robert M. Danin* – Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) The airstrikes conducted by the United States, Britain, and France on Saturday against Syrian military targets were about upholding a nearly century-old prohibition against chemical warfare, not about Syria’s…
By Alison Small * NAPIER, New Zealand, Apr 2018 (IPS) – Rarely has the press been as powerful as it is today. Thanks to the advent of social media, the use of which has grown exponentially, the combination of the formal press, newspapers, television and radio is now…
by George Washington – Washington’s blog / Zero Hedge Forget what the Syrian government or the Ruskies say. The first Western journalist has interviewed doctors at the hospital in Douma, Syria which supposedly treated chemical weapons victims and is announcing what really…
