Roberto Savio* In a world shaken by so many problems, it is difficult to look at 2020 and not make some kind of holistic analysis. While enormous progress has been made on many fronts, it is clear that the tide… Continue Reading
By Karin Pettersson* STOCKHOLM, Dec 3 2019 (IPS) – The news-media industry has long lamented how the digital revolution has broken its business models. Today, a majority of digital advertising money goes to Facebook and Google, and media companies are… Continue Reading
By Hazel Henderson* – ETHICAL MARKETS MEDIA Markets are ubiquitous in all human societies. Since earliest times, when they were conducted using shells, wampum, cattle, or in rituals and potlatches, markets evolved using metal coins, silver and gold, then paper,… Continue Reading
By Gregory Shupak* – FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting)** Pro-coup editorials rely on -and misreport-questionable evidence from the dubious OAS To endorse the coup in Bolivia, numerous editorials in major US media outlets paint President Evo Morales as undemocratic.… Continue Reading
By James Reinl UNITED NATIONS, Nov 22 2019 (IPS) – Human rights campaigners have reacted angrily to the election of Saudi Arabia to the United Nations cultural agency UNESCO’s top board, highlighting the kingdom’s ongoing crackdowns on political freedoms and… Continue Reading
By Roberto Savio * Rome, Nov 14 – This year the Worldwide Web is thirty years old. For the first time since 1435, a citizen from Brazil could exchange their views and information with another in Finland. The Internet, the… Continue Reading
By George Friedman* – Geopolitical Futures Last Sunday, I received an email from a close friend telling me and others that after 60 years he was canceling his subscription to The New York Times because he was tired of its… Continue Reading
By George Friedman * – Geopolitical Futures It is time to end this series of philosophical ruminations and turn instead to something that is at the center of geopolitics: war. The roots of my philosophical mumblings and my thoughts on war… Continue Reading
By Boaventura de Sousa Santos* Automatic tumble dryers notwithstanding, most people in the world (women, most often than not) hang the wash on clotheslines made of metal, hemp rope, or wood. Tree branches can also be used as clotheslines. The… Continue Reading
Roberto Savio* When all is said and done, it appears that Thomas Hobbes, the 17th century English philosopher who had a dire vision of man, was not totally wrong. From the frivolous to the serious, in just a week we have… 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 Ellen Brown* – Truthdig Payments can happen cheaply and easily without banks or credit card companies, as has already been demonstrated—not in the United States but in China. Unlike in the U.S., where numerous firms feast on fees from… Continue Reading
By Peter Foster* – The Telegraph When the Hungarian branch of the Union of European Federalists decided to meet and discuss the new challenges facing EU democracy, its secretary-general was expecting a spirited debate. Eszter Nagy invited the main political… Continue Reading
By GURSHABAD GROVER* – The Indian Express India needs to prove company aids Chinese government, or risk playing into US hands. The Trump administration has not only passed orders restricting the US government and its departments from procuring networking equipment from… Continue Reading
By Caitlin Johnstone – Information Clearing House May 17, 2019 “Information Clearing House” – The Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) has begun responding to queries by the press about a leaked document which contradicts official OPCW findings on… Continue Reading
Stefania Maurizi* – Newsweek “Man is least himself when he talks with his own person. Give a man a mask, and he will tell you the truth.” This famous quote from Oscar Wilde resounded in my head when, wandering around… Continue Reading
By Charlotte Graham-McLay – The New York Times WELLINGTON, New Zealand — New Zealand’s prime minister said on Wednesday that she would meet with French leaders next month in hopes of forging an agreement between governments and technology companies aimed… Continue Reading
By Ivan Katchanovski* – Special to Consortium News The new Ukrainian government is faced with reopening an inquiry into evidence of an organized mass killing in Kiev that Poroshenko stonewalled. Ivan Katchanovski investigates. Five years ago, the Maidan massacre in Kiev,… Continue Reading
By Alexandra Ellerbeck and Avi Asher-Schapiro (*) NEW YORK, Apr 2019 (IPS) – After a seven-year standoff at the Ecuadorean embassy in London, British police last week arrested WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange–a development press freedom advocates had long feared. For… Continue Reading
Robert J. Burrowes* On 11 April 2019, WikiLeaks editor Julian Assange was dragged from the Ecuadorian Embassy in London by UK police and arrested for breaching a bail condition. See ‘Arrest update – SW1’. Upon arrival at a London police… Continue Reading
