By David Brennan – Newsweek The main public broadcasting service in the Netherlands has been forced to apologize after one of its news articles seemed to use anti-Semitic tropes to describe billionaire philanthropist George Soros The article published online Tuesday evening by…
Dana Nuccitelli* – The Guardian There’s a 97% expert consensus on human-caused global warming, but most Americans are unaware When queried about the most recent IPCC report, Republican lawmakers delivered a consistent, false message – that climate scientists are still debating…
By Thalif Deen * OTTAWA, Canada, Oct 23 2018 (IPS) – The international community will be commemorating two milestones in the history of population and development next year: the 50th anniversary of the UN Population Fund (UNFPA) and the 25th anniversary of a Programme of Action…
By Fernando Velázquez* The almighty god of technological progress demands countless sacrifices We sacrificed our time at first; navigating at all times and everywhere in that immense cloud of information called the Internet, and even we stay in it through various apps that…
By Chandran Nair * – China Watch The recent awarding of the Nobel Prize in Economics to William Nordhaus was hailed by most mainstream outlets as a pro-climate action decision, but this shows how limited people’s appreciation of the threats arising from current models of growth…
Jonathan Liew * – The Independent Football is the perfect arena for the unscrupulous populist and macho, nativist fantasies of a new breed of neo-fascists, writes Jonathan Liew Viktor Orban was in London earlier this month. It wasn’t a state visit or a political trip: on the…
George Eaton* – New Statesman. The End of History author on what Karl Marx got right, the rivals to liberal democracy and why he fears a US-China war. History is having its revenge on Francis Fukuyama.
Opinion, By Bret Stephens* – The New York Times A wink and a nod from Washington is the worst possible response to Riyadh’s butchery. Saudi Arabia’s apparent torture, murder and dismemberment of Jamal Khashoggi has been met in some quarters with more lamentation than outrage.
By Ralph Chami, Ekkehard Ernst, Connel Fullenkamp, and Anne Oeking* WASHINGTON DC, Oct 18 2018 (IPS) – Workers’ remittances—the money migrants send home to their families—command the attention of economists and policymakers because of their potential to improve the lives of…
Federico Mayor Zaragoza* Adopting a Universal Declaration on Democracy to enter into a new era in the proper way In San Francisco in 1945, at the end of the Second World War, United Nations was founded under the American leadership of President Roosevelt, with a Chart beginning…
