By Thalif Deen * UNITED NATIONS, Mar 12 2019 (IPS) – The United Nations headquarters is in mourning – and the UN flag is at half mast. The deaths of 21 UN staffers March 10, on board an Ethiopian Airlines flight in Addis Ababa, is one of the biggest tragedies in the extended UN…
By Roy Morrison* – EcoCivilization Our current path is that of a netocracy and triumph of the billionaires. Jeff Bezos and his billionaire cohort will successfully follow their plans for customer service, fast delivery, cost cutting, labor saving and eventually own almost…
By Baher Kamal * – Human Wrongs Watch 28 February 2019 (Wall Street International) — Do not panic! This is not about telling you how bank accounts and pension funds have been used to finance the production of nuclear bombs (they call it ‘investment’).
Kaufman* – HuffPost The oil, gas and coal industries’ donations heavily favor the lawmakers who have so far refused to back the only climate policy to match the scale of the crisis. The 12 senators co-sponsoring the Green New Deal resolution that Sen. Ed Markey (D-Mass.)…
By Thalif Deen* UNITED NATIONS, Feb 13 2019 (IPS) – When the Security Council, the most powerful body at the United Nations, met last month to discuss the growing new threats to world peace and security, the discussion veered away from international terrorism, nuclear Armageddon…
By Federico Mayor Zaragoza* Suddenly -said Leonardo Da Vinci- there are no poor and rich, no young and old, no white and black on board… only a bunch of passengers toiling, working together to survive, to avoid a shipwreck. This is the advice we should convey today through…
By Simon Lewis, Alexander Koch, Mark Maslin and Chris Brierley – The Conversation While Europe was in the early days of the Renaissance, there were empires in the Americas sustaining more than 60m people. But the first European contact in 1492 brought diseases to the Americas…
Becker*- Presidential Climate Action Project (PCAP) Deep in the inner sanctums of the federal bureaucracy, Donald Trump’s lieutenants are writing the early drafts of the President’s State of the Union address, coming up on Jan. 29. It’s possible that the annual speech will be…
By Brooke Jarvis* – The New York Times Magazine Sune Boye Riis was on a bike ride with his youngest son, enjoying the sun slanting over the fields and woodlands near their home north of Copenhagen, when it suddenly occurred to him that something about the experience was amiss…
By Mario Osava* RIO DE JANEIRO, Jan 10 2019 (IPS) – “We have already been decimated and subjected, and we have been victims of the integrationist policy of governments and the national state,” said indigenous leaders, as they rejected the new Brazilian government’s proposals and…
