By Robert Fisk* – The Independent If the President toured these Arab dictatorships, he’d feel very much at home. Great security, fantastic police, lots of torture, alternative facts, extremely dodgy elections and massive economic projects which damage the environment but prove…
David Brooks – The New York Times How should one resist the Trump administration? Well, that depends on what kind of threat Donald Trump represents.
By Saleemul Huq * Feb 8 2017 (The Daily Star, Bangladesh) – Although President Trump has only been in office for less than a month, it is already becoming clear how he intends to carry out implementing his campaign pledges and who he is appointing in his cabinet. It is therefore…
by Eli Clifton –Lobelog* The White House’s omission of Jewish victims of the Holocaust in its statement for Holocaust Remembrance Day raised objections from Jewish groups across the political spectrum but the Trump administration’s combative defense was perhaps the most…
Por Boaventura de Sousa Santos* This year marks the 100th anniversary of the Russian Revolution (RR)1 and also the 150th anniversary of the publication of the first volume of Karl Marx’ Das Kapital. Combining the two historic dates may seem strange because Marx never wrote in…
By Paul Raskin / Tellus Institute Where is the bold vision to save the world from an exploitative economic system and myopic politics? The following is an excerpt from Paul Raskin’s new book Journey to Earthland (Tellus Institute, 2016).
Roger Cohen – The New York Times Fact-based journalism is a ridiculous, tautological phrase. It’s like talking about oxygen-based human life.
By Baher Kamal ROME/GENEVA, Feb 9 2017 (IPS) – “The world is in a crisis, not least because governing élites have estranged themselves from the needs and aspirations of ordinary people. This sense of being left behind has lead the latter to rebel against their country’s…
BY OWEN MATTHEWS , JACK MOORE , DAMIEN SHARKOV – NEWSWEEK Russia is clawing its way back to being a superpower—at the expense of U.S. influence and prestige. On the morning of January 11, Field Marshal Khalifa Haftar climbed up the companionway of an aircraft carrier floating…
By Jonathan Power* LUND, Sweden (IDN-INPS) – So what does President Donald Trump think about NATO? Twice during his campaign he rubbished it publically, saying it was “obsolete”.
