By DECLAN WALSH* – The New York Times Magazine The strange twists in the case of Giulio Regeni’s disappearance in Cairo. The target of the Egyptian police, that day in November 2015, was the street vendors selling socks, $2 sunglasses and fake jewelry, who clustered under the…
Lee Fang – The Intercept* FOR ALEJANDRO CHAFUEN, the gathering this spring at the Brick Hotel in Buenos Aires was as much a homecoming as it was a victory lap. Chafuen, a lanky Argentine-American, had spent his adult life working to undermine left-wing social movements and…
Hugh Miles* – The Guardian New details have emerged about the abductions of three dissident Saudi princes in what appears to be a systematic state-run Saudi government programme to kidnap defectors and dissidents. The three, all members of the Saudi regime before they became…
By Hazel Henderson* In the USA, founders feared concentration of power in government. They installed separation of powers in the US Constitution—-buttressed by freedom of the press.
Sachs – Project Syndicate NEW YORK – The US is in the midst of a political meltdown, unable to manage a domestic economic agenda or a coherent foreign policy. The White House is in turmoil; Congress is paralyzed; and the world is looking on in astonishment and dread.
Robert Fisk* – The Independent There are still honourable Israelis who demand a state for the Palestinians; there are well-educated Saudis who object to the crazed Wahabism upon which their kingdom is founded; there are millions of Americans, from sea to shining sea, who do not…
Michael Bloomberg* Forget the White House, a new coalition of cities, businesses and universities are taking a lead role in fighting climate change The global effort to confront climate change was hobbled for many years by the mistaken idea that only national governments and…
By Mark Hertsgaard – The Nation As tensions with North Korea escalate, Congress and the military must prevent a nuclear first strike. The United States is not a monarchy, but in times of nuclear crisis it sure feels like one.
Bill McKibben* The US Department of Agriculture has forbidden the use of the words ‘climate change’. This say-no-evil policy is doomed to fail In a bold new strategy unveiled on Monday in the Guardian, the US Department of Agriculture – guardians of the planet’s richest…
Posted by Yves Smith – Naked Capitalism Yves here. Readers will likely concur with Bacevich’s analysis but find his proposals to be simplistic, starting with the fact that he calls them preliminary yet two of them require Constitutional amendments.
