By Rick Noack* – The Washington Post. Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban is facing backlash after a speech arguing that Europeans should not “become peoples of mixed race,” although the far-right leader is still slated to speak at the Conservative Political Action Conference…
By Rodrigo Guillot — Globetrotter Mexico’s President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) visited the United States on July 12 and offered five proposals to U.S. President Joe Biden. These proposals are based on AMLO’s in-depth knowledge of Mexican history and his reading of the…
By Baher Kamal* MADRID, Jul 28 2022 (IPS) – A wide majority, including the United States, has cheered the 22 July Turkey-brooked agreement between Russia and Ukraine to resume cereals and fertilizers exports from both countries. Such exports had been stopped since last February…
By George Friedman* – Geopolitical Futures Russia and Ukraine have signed an agreement to permit the shipping of grain through the Black Sea to world markets. A few hours after the agreement was signed in Turkey, Russia attacked the Black Sea port in Odesa.
By Ellen Brown* – ScheerPost In prescribing cures for inflation, economists rely on the diagnosis of Nobel laureate Milton Friedman: inflation is always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon—too much money chasing too few goods. But that equation has three variables: too…
By John Scales Avery* – MEER Climate change is an extreme emergency There is ample evidence that if the international community does not act immediately and effectively to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and replace fossil fuels with renewable energy, tipping points will be…
Buckley* – Newsweek Former President Donald Trump has been signaling his every intention of running for president again. But the polls are telling a different story about whether or not he should. Fewer than half of Republican voters support him as their preferred choice in the…
By Simon Tisdall* – The Guardian Britain and the EU responded dismally to the 2015 migrant crisis. The number of ‘irregular entries’ is up by 84% this year – and the ways to deal with the issue now range from limited to bizarre In a week when Russia threatened to annex more…
By Evelyn Leopold* – Globetrotter, Independent Media Institute The recent overturning of Roe v. Wade is part of a pattern of American exceptionalism that harms people in both the U.S. and the rest of the world.
By Brian Klaas* The Atlantic The U.S. still has a chance to fix itself before 2024. But when democracies start dying—as ours already has—they usually don’t recover In 2009, a violent mob stormed the presidential palace in Madagascar, a deeply impoverished red-earthed island off…
