By Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. Davies (*) – CODEPINK President Biden addressed the UN General on September 21 with a warning that the climate crisis is fast approaching a “point of no return,” and a promise that the United States would rally the world to action. “We will lead…
By Nick Estes* – Globetrotter, Independent Media Institute Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has given new license to the killing of Indigenous people in Brazil. Before he came to power in 2019, it wasn’t clear what he wanted to build, but he knew exactly who and…
Masahiro Tauchi – Advisor of DEVNET JAPAN – Former Ambassador of Japan to Norway Ammonia fuel Yara International of Norway will use renewable energy to produce ammonia in Australia in 2023, cultivating fuel demand of the Japanese thermal power plants according to the Nikkei…
By Koohan Paik-Mander* – Globetrotter, Independent Media Institute As a longtime Hawaii resident, I have always wondered how the former President of the United States, Grover Cleveland, was so ineffective when it came to foreign policy matters. His efforts to right the…
Analysis, by Alon Pinkas – Haaretz Newspaper, Israel France is right to feel betrayed by America after losing a $60 billion deal to sell submarines to Australia. But the U.S. is also right to pursue its number one foreign policy objective: countering China The battle of Yorktown…
Nick Cohen* – The Observer The opposition parties are uniting behind an unlikely hero leading a broad popular front. Since 2010, Hungary’s PM Viktor Orbán has worked on creating the fear that if you speak out you will lose your job. Gergely Karácsony does not have the…
By Mushahid Hussain*The Blame Game has begun in Washington. While the region is still reeling from the shock of what happened in Afghanistan a month ago, pundits and politicians in the United States are trying to figure out how the 9/11 Project unraveled to such an…
Carden* – Globetrotter, Independent Media Institute Civilian control of the military is a bedrock principle of the US Constitution yet has been flouted again and again. Washington’s quasi-official court stenographer, Bob Woodward, has just published another “insider” DC account…
By Fiona Harvey* – The Guardian Major commitment with deadline of 2030 is big advance towards reaching 1.5C goal set out in Paris agreement The US and the EU made a joint pledge on Friday to cut global methane emissions by almost a third in the next decade, in what climate…
By Timothy Garton Ash* – The Guardian After Merkel, the incoming coalition will have to prove that democracy can meet Europe’s great challenges In Brussels last week, I found everyone waiting for Berlin. In Berlin, I found everyone electrified by an unexpectedly wide-open…
