Riccardo Petrella* – Agora of the Earth’s Inhabitants The great financial predators A perverse ‘revolution’. On 7 December last, i the private company tChicago Mercantile Exchange) that manages the Chicago Stock Exchange gave the warning by opening up a…
By Victoria Tauli-Corpuz* — The Guardian World leaders recognise the importance of indigenous rights, but still haven’t committed enough to supporting our fight . ‘It is vital indigenous peoples are able to directly access finance, so when they undertake actions on the…
By Daniel Parsons and Martin Taylor* – The conversation The Glasgow Climate Pact urges countries to “accelerate efforts towards phasing down”, rather than “phasing out”, coal power that isn’t mitigated by carbon capture and storage. This subtle change to the…
Viewpoint by Jonathan Powerr* – IDN-InDepthNews LUND, Sweden (IDN) — It’s always sad to see migrants up against it, whether it be the deadly waves of the Mediterranean and the Aegean seas, the slow churning processes of the US/Mexican border and, in the case now in…
By Kenan Malik* – The Observer European Union policies have turned migrants into a resource to be exploited A company of men in dark uniforms and balaclavas, all carrying clubs. They are battering a group of people, repeatedly clubbing them on their arms, legs and backs.
Sachs* – Project SyndicateThe UN Climate Change Conference in Glasgow suffered the same lack of trust between developing and developed countries that has burdened global climate negotiations for almost three decades. Financing is at the heart of the rupture, and the time…
By Jake Bernstein*- The New York Review of Books The term “tax haven” may conjure images of Caribbean islands and palm trees, but two recent books make the case that the world’s leading tax haven is America. On April 3, 2016, journalism colleagues around the world and I broke…
By Simon Lewis and Mark Maslin (*) – The Conversation The COP26 UN climate talks in Glasgow have finished and the gavel has come down on the Glasgow Climate Pact agreed by all 197 countries. If the 2015 Paris Agreement provided the framework for countries to tackle climate…
By Paul Behrens * – POLITICO An environmental scientist assesses the outcomes and possibilities coming out of the climate conference in Glasgow. For the past two weeks, leaders from almost 200 countries around the world have convened in Scotland with a mandate of nothing less…
Pjotr Sauer – The Moscow Times As Europe’s border crisis deepens, The Moscow Times flew from Istanbul to Minsk on one of the last planes full of Iraqis desperate to make it to Poland. ISTANBUL – As the last rays of the setting sun shone through Istanbul Airport’s…
