Rundell and Michael Gfoeller (*) – Newsweek In 1919, John Maynard Keynes was a young economist with the British delegation negotiating the Versailles Treaty. Keynes strongly objected to the harsh economic treatment being meted out to Germany.
Boaventura de Sousa Santos* The crisis of journalism has been talked about almost since the beginning of newspapers with large circulation. As early as 1919, Upton Sinclair published The Brass Check, a devastating critique of the power of capital to corrupt the press and…
Masahiro Tauchi, Advisor, DEVNET JAPAN – Former Ambassador of Japan to Norway Cambodia is a country that our country has supported with PKO dispatches to build a peaceful and democratic nation from the quagmire of civil war. The 1991 Paris Peace Agreements stipulated principles…
By Ted Galen Carpenter*- Global Research Western leaders have long fostered the self-serving myth that NATO is an organization solely for the mutual defense of its members. The corollary is that other nations therefore have no legitimate reason to fear the most…
By Branko Marcetic* – Responsible Statecraft (Quincy Institute) More than a decade after NATO’s intervention, people across the Sahel are still left picking up the pieces The events in Niger over the past few months have been alarming to watch. What began as a military coup now…
By Gordon Brown* Worldwide, 50 million people are victims of modern slavery. There should be no hiding place for those pulling the strings More than 200 years after the international slave trade was formally abolished, the terrible truth is there has never been a better time to…
By Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. Davies (*) – CODEPINK Lost in a chaotic hall of mirrors of its own creation, the CIA has generally failed in its one and only legitimate task, to provide U.S. policymakers with accurate intelligence about the world beyond the Washington…
By Kester Kenn Klomegah* – Modern Diplomacy In this insightful interview, Samir Bhattacharya, a research associate at Vivekananda International Foundation, discusses the changing geopolitical situation, how India and Africa are working closely together to support the emerging…
Mark Leonard* – Project Syndicate Contrary to how it may appear to many, not least in the US, the new cold war seems to be based not on the old logic of polarization, but on a new logic of fragmentation. Judging by the growth of the BRICS group of major emerging economies…
By Anthony J. Constantini* – POLITICO Seeking to become the first populist-right leader to forge a genuine Pan-European alliance, the Italian prime minister could change the game in Brussels.
