By Chakravarthi Raghavan and Jomo Kwame Sundaram (*) GENEVA and KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 2019 (IPS) – In Davos in late January, several powerful governments and their allies announced their intention to launch new negotiations on e-commerce. Unusually, the intention is to launch the…
By Thalif Deen* UNITED NATIONS, Jan 2019 (IPS) – The steady decline in multilateralism—accompanied by a rise in unilateralism– is beginning to threaten democratic norms, including press freedom, global governance, civic participation and human rights across Asia, Africa, South…
By Ed Holt BRATISLAVA, Jan 22 2019 (IPS) – “I’ve never known a time when it was as bad as it is now,” says Beata Balogova, the Vice-Chair of the International Press Institute (IPI) and Editor in Chief of the Slovak Spectator Sme. “In terms of what’s going on with journalists…
By Craig Timberg , Tony Romm and Elizabeth Dwoskin – The Washington Post Months after President Trump took office, Russia’s disinformation teams trained their sights on a new target: special counsel Robert S. Having worked to help get Trump into the White House, they now worked…
By Daniel Hentz* – Columbia Journalism Review** “The best minds in media should be giving sustained attention to how to tell [the climate crisis story] in a way that creates change,” wrote Washington Post columnist Margaret Sullivan in October. The question is, after two…
BY HAZEL HENDERSON* – Ethical Markets Media In 1986 Scientific American drew attention to this visual of space junk tracked by NORAD, 7,000 spent rocket debris and the 40,000 objects with a diameter of 10 centimeters or more. I used this visual in many of my presentations in…
By Lee McIntyre* – The Conversation Most politicians lie. Even if we could find some isolated example of a politician who was scrupulously honest – former President Jimmy Carter, perhaps – the question is how to think about the rest of them.
By Diego Arguedas Ortiz* – BBC Future Images like that of a polar bear on a melting ice field are iconic. But in terms of getting people to act on climate change, they may be ineffective.
By Norman Eisen and Jeffrey Gedmin (*) (CNN) If there is one painful lesson that we have learned in the 100 years since the end of World War I, it is that democracy’s friends on both sides of the Atlantic must speak up when it is under assault. That is why we are…
University of Pennsylvania – EurekAlert! * A study from the Annenberg School for Communication shows that exposure to anonymous, bipartisan social networks can lead liberals and conservatives to improve their forecasting of global-climate trends Social media networks, which…
