By Stephen Leahy UXBRIDGE, Canada, Mar 24 2017 (IPS) – The Carbon Law says human carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions must be reduced by half each decade starting in 2020. By following this “law” humanity can achieve net-zero CO2 emissions by mid-century to protect the global climate…
The Economist, In-Depth No, but that is what northern Europeans think IN PHILIP ROTH’S “The Human Stain”, a university professor finds himself accused of racial harassment after he jokingly asks whether two black students who fail to attend class are “spooks”. (He means…
By Ramesh Jaura Interview with Jorge Chediek, Director of the UN Office for South Cooperation (UNOSSC) NEW YORK (IDN) – South-South and triangular cooperation forms an integral part, complementing North-South Cooperation, of the global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)…
By Baher Kamal ROME, Mar 2017 (IPS) – Obviously, there are so many issues and phenomena that have been brought up by growing impact of climate change that one would likely not think about. Some of them, however, are essential and would be good to learn about.
Mehreen Khan, Paul McClean – Financial Times Jeroen Dijsselbloem, the head of the eurozone’s finance ministers, has come under attack after refusing to apologise for saying southern European countries had wasted money on “drinks and women” in the run upto the eurozone crisis. At…
by: Edward Luce – FINANCIAL TIMES – Virtually every day since Donald Trump took office has yielded a “could not make this up” moment. But Monday’s Congressional hearings — and Mr Trump’s live tweeting on the proceedings — may have killed fiction stone dead.
By George Friedman – Daily Digest A class struggle is emerging in Euro-American society. Geert Wilders, the nationalist candidate for prime minister of the Netherlands, lost the election on March 15.
By Martin Khor* Automation linked with digital technology is predicted to take over millions of jobs, and developing countries are most susceptible to the disruptive effects. Last year Uber started testing driver-less cars, with human drivers inside to make corrections in case…
Analysis – Stratfor Summary EU leaders who feared that elections in the Netherlands would strengthen the wave of Euroskepticism building across the Continent were soothed by the worse-than-anticipated performance of the populist Party for Freedom. But although most Dutch voters…
Paul Krugman – The New York Times This week the Trump administration put out a budget blueprint — or more accurately, a “budget” blueprint. After all, real budgets detail where the money comes from and where it goes; this proclamation covers only around a third of federal…
