By Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. Davies (*) – CODEPINK When Japan invited the leaders of Brazil, India and Indonesia to attend the G7 summit in Hiroshima, there were glimmers of hope that it might be a forum for these rising economic powers from the Global South to discuss their…
By Rebecca Ratcliffe* – The Guardian Special rapporteur Olivier De Shutter calls for action on neglected crisis after finding ‘absolutely terrible’ conditions on visit to Cox’s Bazar camps in Bangladesh Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh are at risk of becoming “the new…
By Naseem Javed* – modernDiplomacy Measuring BRICS in single decades, in 2001, BRIC started as an acronym for Brazil, Russia, India, and China; Goldman Sachs economist Jim O’Neill claimed that by 2050 the four BRIC economies would come to dominate the global economy. So South…
By Bob Lord*- CounterPunch website We’ll never, as a nation, take on the ultra-rich if millions of Americans identify with them. It’s been a full decade now since I first predicted — warned, to be a bit more precise — that America would have its first trillionaire before 2040.
By Conor Gallagher- Naked Capitalism Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has another five years in power after defeating opposition leader Kemal Kilicdaroglu in Sunday’s runoff election. Kilicdaroglu was in the impossible position of trying to make up ground by simultaneously…
By Kristian Laubjerg* – MEER Tanks displayed for observation. It is always a simple matter to drag the people along. …. All you have to do is to tell them, they are being attacked. (Reich Marshall Hermann Göring at the Nuremberg Trials) Background Philosophers…
Greenberg* – TomDispatch Think of us, the American public, as a blindfolded child when it comes to our government’s torture program that followed the 9/11 disaster and the launching of the ill-fated war on terror. In the Blindman’s Buff variation of tag, a child designated as…
Anna Matveeva* – The Conversation For a lasting peace both sides need to remember that After a year of war in Ukraine it has become commonplace among western commentators to argue that the war is deeply rooted in the “Russian mentality”, history and culture. Russians, it is said…
By Cristina Gallardo, Suzanne Lynch and Hans von der Burchard – POLITICO Diplomatic efforts to win support for Ukraine have been largely rebuffed so far. LONDON — In the struggle for hearts and minds against Russia, Europe has it sights on a new target.
By Mariel Ferragamo and Diana Roy – Council on Foreign Relations As armed conflict rages on, Sudan’s devastating humanitarian crisis continues to worsen. More than one million people could flee to neighboring countries, threatening regional upheaval. Sudan has…
