BY ISHAAN THAROOR* – The Washington Post Axis and allies (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post and Melina Mara/The Washington Post) Earlier this summer, President Trump tweeted at four female lawmakers of color to “go back” to their countries of origin. Trump’s… Continue Reading
By Jim Tankersley* – The New York Times WASHINGTON — From tax cuts to relaxed regulations to tariffs, each of President Trump’s economic initiatives is based on a promise: to set off a wave of investment and bring back jobs… Continue Reading
By Paul Krugman Why has the Republican Party become a systematic enabler of terrorism? Don’t pretend to be shocked. Just look at G.O.P. responses to the massacre in El Paso. They have ranged from the ludicrous (blame video games!) to… Continue Reading
Danny Holt* – Newsweek Last Monday, the Trump administration announced a new expedited removal policy, expanding the Department of Homeland Security’s power to deport more immigrants with increased speed. This news comes on the heels of a series of raids… Continue Reading
By Thalif Deen* UNITED NATIONS, Jul 26 2019 (IPS) – The United States is no exception to the practice of modern day slavery—a crime for which it is rarely held accountable at the United Nations. A rash of hidden crimes… Continue Reading
Afua Hirsch – The Guardian As we’ve seen in the UK, attacking the identity of people of colour can be a route to political success Pity Donald Trump. Even his racism is the most unsophisticated kind. Every black and brown… Continue Reading
By John Washington – The Nation Emiliano Monge’s novel Among the Lost leads a reader through the hellish migrant trail from the perspective of its most amoral agents. Sometimes a national conversation, no matter its constant news coverage, remains—at least for… Continue Reading
By Fernando Reyes Matta* There are three fears that cross citizenship in different parts of the world: a) the fear of how work life will be changed by automation and robotics; b) the fear of stress in urban life, if the… Continue Reading
By Marco Funk* BERLIN, Jul 11 2019 (IPS) – When the Italian police recently arrested Carola Rackete, captain of the Sea-Watch 3 search and rescue vessel, the Central Mediterranean Sea suddenly entered the international limelight once again. Media coverage of… Continue Reading
Alberto Nardelli* – BuzzFeed News A close aide to Italy’s deputy prime minister Matteo Salvini held covert talks to pump Russian oil money to his far-right party. BuzzFeed News has the tape Six men sat down for a business meeting on… Continue Reading
By Peter Adwok NYABA * It isn’t possible that people who’ve been struggling together against a common enemy for nearly six decades could turn in the end against themselves as if nothing strategic bounded them together. Many people in the… Continue Reading
BBC World Kyriakos Mitsotakis, who has won the general election in Greece, has politics running through his veins. His father Konstantinos Mitsotakis was prime minister in the early 1990s and his sister, Dora Bakoyannis, was mayor of Athens when the… Continue Reading
By James Reinl UNITED NATIONS, Jul 4 2019 (IPS) – A military strike on a detention centre for migrants in Libya that claimed dozens of lives on Tuesday Jul. 2 has reignited a debate over the poor treatment of the… Continue Reading
By Sarah Saadoun* – Newsweek There is a bitter irony to the White House’s newly released economic development plan for the Occupied Palestinian Territory. Titled “Peace to Prosperity,” the plan was devised by Jared Kushner, Donald Trump’s son-in-law and senior… Continue Reading
By Paul Krugman*- Opinion Columnist- The New York Times Why “tariff” isn’t a “beautiful word.” Donald Trump’s plan to impose tariffs on Mexican exports unless our neighbor does something — he hasn’t specified what — to stop the flow of asylum-seekers is… Continue Reading
By Roberto Savio * The terrible feeling I had on waking up and seeing the Italian voting results at the recent European elections was that my country was suddenly full of strangers. How could the majority of Italians reconfirm a government… Continue Reading
by Ylenia Gostoli – Al Jazeera Right-wing parties performed strongly, but not as well as expected and parliamentary majorities are not guaranteed. Brussels, Belgium – It had been portrayed as a day of reckoning between pro-European and anti-European forces –… Continue Reading
By Peter Maurer* STOCKHOLM, May 22 2019 (IPS) – The connection of humanitarian action to broader objectives like peace, development and human rights is understandably complex, but it is also an area in which some fresh thinking is important. The… Continue Reading
By Baher Kamal* – Human Wrongs Watch Indebted, exploited, hunt down, shamed at Home… The harsh reality of Southeast Asia’s migrants Sorry for coming back to this issue, but its immense human dimension justifies this new attempt to report on… Continue Reading
Emily Schultheis* – The Atlantic Rather than opting to leave the EU like the U.K., Europe’s far-right parties have instead advocated for change “from within.” BERLIN—Ahead of this month’s European Parliament elections, the far-right populist Alternative for Germany (AfD) party… Continue Reading
