By Dom Phillips – The Guardian Executive order transfers regulation and creation of indigenous reserves to agriculture ministry controlled by agribusiness lobby Hours after taking office, Brazil’s new president, Jair Bolsonaro, has launched an assault on environmental and Amazon…
By Chandran Nair* Address migration’s root causes: Rather than fund walls, nations could end wars and offer development aid to help people stay at home HONG KONG: A freighter trundles into a harbor, carrying several hundred migrants escaping war. Authorities discover them and…
Robert Reich*, Opinion – Newsweek After his first bizarre year, his apologists told us Donald Trump was growing into the job and that in his second year he’d be more restrained and respectful of democratic institutions. He’s been worse.
Burrowes* In many ways it is painful to reflect on the year 2018; a year of vital opportunities lost when so much is at stake. Whether politically, militarily, socially, economically, financially or ecologically, humanity took some giant strides backwards while passing up…
Opinion of Robert Reich* – Newsweek Trump said Friday “we are totally prepared for a very long shut down.” It was one of his rare uses of the pronoun “we” instead of his preferred—and in this case far more appropriate—“I.” The shutdown is indubitably his. Congress offered him a…
Human Wrongs Watch ( By teleSUR) A green wave hit Argentina, the case of murdered activist Berta Caceras brought to justice, and Central American refugees treked to the U.S. Central American Exodus – Migrant Caravan: Migrants Find Strength in Unity Over 10,000 Central…
Editorial Any hopes that the US political system would be able to work around a destructive president look foolish now. Expect more direct confrontations in the new year At first sight, Donald Trump’s presidency might seem to prove that, in the end, people can get used to…
By Tyler Durden* – Zero Hedge The diplomatic crisis ignited by the killing of Jamal Khashoggi has largely subsided, and Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman’s grip on power is, if anything, even stronger than it was before (having faced down incipient challenges from one of his…
PATRICK COCKBURN – The Unz Review* President Trump’s decision to withdraw US troops from Syria is being denounced by an impressive range of critics claiming that it is a surrender to Turkey, Russia, Syria and Iran – as well as a betrayal of the Kurds and a victory for Isis. The…
By Joan Walsh* – The Nation The departure of Jim Mattis has destroyed the childish illusion that the “adults” will save us. We have to save ourselves Thursday, December 20, will go down in history as the day Americans had to face a devastating truth about the dangerous charlatan…
