By Robert O’Harrow Jr. and Shawn Boburg – The Washington Post The crowd rose to its feet and roared its approval as Sen. Jeff Sessions bounded onto the stage at the Breakers, an exclusive resort in Palm Beach, Fla. Stephen Miller, an aide to the Alabama Republican, handed him a…
Paul Krugman – The New York Times Donald Trump just took us out of the Paris climate accord for no good reason. I don’t mean that his decision was wrong. I mean, literally, that he didn’t offer any substantive justification for that decision. Oh, he threw around a few numbers…
By Baher Kamal ROME, Jun 5 2017 (IPS) – Now that president Donald Trump has announced the withdrawal of the world’s largest polluter in history—the United States, from the Paris Accord, perhaps one of the most specific warnings is what a United Nations independent expert on…
SANGER and JANE PERLEZ – The New York Times WASHINGTON — President Trump has managed to turn America First into America Isolated. In pulling out of the Paris climate accord, Mr. Trump has created a vacuum of global leadership that presents ripe opportunities to allies and…
By Ambassador Anwarul K. Chowdhury* – IDN-InDepthNews “I am proud to be a feminist… all of us need to be.
By Mario Osava* RIO DE JANEIRO, May 2017 (IPS) – The attack with guns and machetes that left at least 10 Gamela indigenous people wounded, in the northeastern state of Maranhão, highlighted the growing threats against the resurgence and survival of native people in Brazil. On…
By Hazel Henderson* – Ethical Markets Backing out of the U S Commitment to the 2015 UN Climate Accords signed in Paris by 195 nations, Trump himself risks derailing his own brand and Trump-branded properties worldwide. This additional unforced error, warned against by his top…
By Secretary-General António Guterres In a letter to Permanent Representatives of 193 member states, the Secretary-General details his plan for a revitalization of the UN system. UNITED NATIONS, May 31 2017 (IPS) – Through a series of recent global agreements on sustainable…
By MARK LANDLER – The New York Times WASHINGTON — The last time relations between the United States and Europe were this bad — in the spring of 2003, during the buildup to the invasion of Iraq — the administration of George W. Bush decided to “punish France, ignore Germany and…
Joseph Robertson* – The Guardian A 21st-century American infrastructure agenda depends on the Paris Agreement Tuesday 30 May 2017 – There is only one part of President Trump’s agenda with real opportunity for a big win, right now, and that is infrastructure. And the Paris…
