Daniel Ellsberg* – Great Transition Initiative April 2019 The growth of the military-industrial complex poses an existential threat to humanity. Daniel Ellsberg, peace activist and Vietnam War whistleblower discusses with Tellus Senior Fellow Allen White the continuing…
By Ramesh Jaura* BERLIN | TOKYO (IDN) – In the run-up to the forthcoming round of crucial talks on the non-proliferation of nuclear weapons, Buddhist philosopher, educator and a staunch advocate of nuclear disarmament, Dr. Daisaku Ikeda, has called for easing tensions to halt…
BY ISHAAN THAROOR* – The Washington Post At the end of last week, it appeared President Trump had authorized a stunning reversal of U.S. policy. According to a White House statement, Trump had placed a phone call to renegade Libyan Gen. Khalifa Hifter, who is leading a…
BY OTHERWORDS – The Mind Unleashed! This March marked the 16th anniversary of the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq.
Cristina Sampaio – Movimento europeo in Italia (Rome) As the 23-26 May European elections are coming closer, the European Movement in Italy and the Academic Agora Europe network have listed “ten priorities for a united, democratic and supportive Europe, as an instrument of peace…
By George Friedman* – Geopolitical Futures The countries that aligned to help protect Assad may be reconsidering their allegiances Last week, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced that Israel and Russia had agreed to cooperate on withdrawing foreign forces from…
Sanger and Edward Wong (*) – The New York Times HANOI, Vietnam — As President Trump settled into the dining room of a French-colonial hotel in Hanoi on Thursday morning, the conversation with Kim Jong-un, the North Korean leader with whom he had struck up the oddest of…
Nadarajah and Jomo Kwame Sundaram (*) BHUBANESWAR, India and KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 26 2019 (IPS) – Do politicians’ words matter? Since becoming US President, Donald J Trump has dismissed his opponents and others he does not like as evil, stupid or both.
By Tom Engelhardt* – TomDispatch Veni, Vidi, Tweeti (I Came, I Saw, I Tweeted) . An Obituary for the Republic What dreamers they were!
By Tom O’Connor – Newsweek A senior Russian diplomat has hit out at the United States’ reported attempts to oust the Venezuelan government by turning the Latin American state’s armed forces against it. The U.S. has recognized National Assembly head Juan Guaidó’s claim to the…
