By MARK LANDLER – The New York Times President Trump announced that he had ousted Secretary of State Rex W. Tillerson and intends to replaced him with Mike Pompeo, now the C.I.A. director.
By Jon Wiener – The Nation How the president has changed the “law and order” debate. Chris Hayes is the Emmy Award–winning host of All In With Chris Hayes on MSNBC, and an editor at large of The Nation. His book A Colony in a Nation is out now in paperback with a new afterword.
BY SIMON TILFORD * – Foreign Policy The front-runner to lead Europe’s central bank doesn’t seem to believe in central banking. Germany’s political and economic establishment believes its handling of the eurozone crisis and its aftermath has been vindicated. After all, the…
Posted Yves Smith – Naked Capitalism By Michael Hudson, a research professor of Economics at University of Missouri, Kansas City, and a research associate at the Levy Economics Institute of Bard College. His latest book is J is for Junk Economics.
By Maged Srourl ROME, Mar 9 2018 (IPS) – The agricultural sector in the Mediterranean Area is facing tough challenges and incredible opportunities at the same time: beyond a shadow of doubt, the farming sector is experiencing a critical time of change and transition towards a…
By ELISABETTA POVOLEDO, RAPHAEL MINDER and CHOE SANG-HUN (*) – The New York Times ROME — In the era of #MeToo and Time’s Up, International Women’s Day arrived on Thursday with a sense of urgency and determination. For many women, there was a keen awareness that there had been a…
Robert Fisk – The Independent The truth is, you just can’t tell who your real friends are these days Thank heavens Theresa May is giving a warm welcome today to the illustrious Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia, His Royal Majesty Mohammad bin Salman. For it is meet and right that…
David Leonhardt* – The New York Times Serve Donald Trump at your own risk. Being a top aide in his administration doesn’t usually work out well.
Helen Davidson – The Guardian The treaty determines entitlement to Timor Sea oil and gas reserves, including in the Greater Sunrise basin Australia and Timor-Leste have a permanent maritime border for the first time after the signing of a significant and unprecedented treaty in…
David Brooks – The New York Times What happens to American politics after Donald Trump? Do we snap back to normal or do things spin ever more widely out of control?
