By Nadia Batok* Washington ceremony marks 70th anniversary of NATO on April 3, 2019. The seventieth anniversary of the Washington Treaty, the founding document of NATO, represents more than just a historical moment for commemorating NATO’s past, but also an opportunity to…
BY ELLYN KASCHAK* – Wall Street International The Case of the former United States The story of a very bad man Gather around, boys and girls. I am going to tell you a story that you may never have heard before because it goes against all the prototypic American stories where the…
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 the most dangerous…
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 the morning of October 18 last year, amid the…
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 civilized world find it difficult to…
MARIANNA BIRÓ – Index, Budapest Speaker of the Hungarian Parliament and chairman of Fidesz’s governing board László Kövér said that the establishment of administrative courts was only taken off the agenda until the international disputes around Hungary’s rule-of-law situation…
By Justin Worland* – TIME President Donald Trump has falsely called climate change a “hoax” invented by China, incorrectly suggested that wind turbines cause cancer and dismissed a landmark scientific report produced by the federal government’s own scientists. His…
By Paul Krugman – The New York Times The pain is real, but the coercion isn’t. Donald Trump’s declaration that “trade wars are good, and easy to win” will surely go down in the history books as a classic utterance — but not in a good way.
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 mainly African people who transit through the turbulent country…
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 adviser, along…
