Boaventura de Sousa Santos* When we look at the past through the eyes of the present, we find huge cemeteries of abandoned futures, struggles that inaugurated new possibilities but were neutralized, silenced, or distorted, futures murdered at birth, or even still-born futures…
By Baher Kamal ROME, Apr 14 2017 (IPS) – Seventy-nine countries from Africa, the Caribbean and the Pacific, which are home to around one billon people, will speak with one voice as they prepare to negotiate a major partnership agreement with the European Union (500 million…
By Baher Kamal ROME, Apr 13 2017 (IPS) – Perhaps you are not aware enough of the fact the oceans have it all! Well, oceans have from microscopic life to the largest animal that has ever lived on Earth, from the colourless to the shimmering, from the frozen to the boiling and…
Spencer Ackerman in New York and Sune Engel Rasmussen in Kabul –The Guardian GBU-43/B, known as the ‘mother of all bombs’, dropped for the first time, to target ‘tunnel complex’ used by Islamic State in Khorosan The US has dropped its largest non-nuclear bomb ever used in combat…
By Baher Kamal ROME, Apr 12 2017 (IPS) – Nearly 50 per cent of all emergency multilateral food assistance to Africa is due to natural disasters, with advancing droughts significantly threatening both livelihoods and economic growth, warns the African Union through its…
Fuller* – Lobelog How should we understand U.S. President Donald Trump’s cruise missile barrage last week against a Syrian airbase?
Analysis, By Henry Farrell – The Washington Post When Hungary’s government passed a law last week which was effectively intended to shut down Budapest’s Central European University, it surely anticipated that there would be a backlash. It probably did not anticipate mass…
By THE EDITORIAL BOARD /The New York Times A weekend of official explanations for President Trump’s airstrikes on a Syrian air base has only deepened the confusion over his intentions, next steps and the legal basis for his unilateral use of force in the middle of that…
By Baher Kamal ROME, Apr 10 2017 (IPS) – “The future of work must be inspired by considerations of humanity, of social justice and peace. If it is not, we are going to a dark place, we are going to a dangerous place,” said the head of the leading world body specialised on labour…
By Bertil Lintner – Asia Times De facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi’s pursuit of a national ceasefire agreement has taken the same failed path as her hardline military predecessors Despite the timing, the bewildering announcement was not meant as an early April Fool’s joke. Myanmar…
