By Francesco Martone* “While managing our livelihood, day-by-day, we have to face reality, we have to involve in a real fight to keep our forest. We are alarmed and concerned over the increasing cases of human rights violations, violence to our communities, criminalization of…
By Baher Kamal* ROME, Dec 7 2017 (IPS) – US President Donald Trump’s decision to recognise Jerusalem as Israel’s capital does not represent only a ‘kiss of death’ to the two-State solution, but also a strong blow in the face of 57 Muslim countries, let alone igniting fire in…
Daniel Gros- Project Syndicate The global economy today is dominated by three major players – China, the EU, and the US – with roughly equal trading volumes and limited incentive to fight for the rules-based global trading system. With cooperation unlikely, the world should…
Jonathan Freedland* – The Guardian The US president’s recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel turns a naked flame on the single most combustible issue in the conflict Not content with taking the US to the brink of nuclear conflict with North Korea, Donald Trump is now…
Byr Naimul Haq IPS Correspondent Naimul Haq interviews WILLIAM LACY SWING, Director General of the International Organization for Migration (IOM) DHAKA, Bangladesh, Dec 2017 (IPS) – In less than four months, over 600,000 Rohingya refugees have fled brutal persecution in Myanmar…
By THE EDITORIAL BOARD of the New York Times You know you have a problem when you’ve been president for less than 11 months and you’re already relying on Richard Nixon’s definition of what’s legal. On Monday morning, Axios reported that Mr.
By Martin Khor* PENANG, Malaysia, Dec 2017 (IPS) – The growing crisis of antibiotic resistance is catching the attention of policy makers, but not at a rate enough to tackle it. More diseases are affected by resistance, meaning the bacteria cannot be killed even if different…
By George Friedman* – Geopolitical Futures For the moment, Iran has been freed to assert itself. Iran has always seen itself as being in competition with the Arab states for domination of the Persian Gulf.
By Baher Kamal ROME, Dec 4 2017 (IPS) – “There are new challenges to all states: among them, the real threat to multilateralism… South-South and triangular cooperation can contribute to a new multilateralism and drive the revitalisation of the global partnership for sustainable…
Editorial Stop the state visit. Britain should not allow the US president’s racism to be dressed up in pageantry All relationships have boundaries.
