Sachs* – New World Economy Barbados Prime Minister Mia Mottley and French President Emmanuel Macron invited world leaders to Paris on June 22-23 to reach a new “global pact” to finance the fight against poverty and human-induced climate change. All kudos for the ambition…
By Duncan Campbell* – The Guardian If MPs do not act, how can they say they value free speech? The WikiLeaks founder faces extradition and an uncertain fate in the US.
Goodman* – CounterPunch website The war between Russia and Ukraine has become more complex in the wake of the past weekend, which found Yevgeny Prigozhin marching his troops toward Moscow, and President Vladimir Putin finding a safe haven for Prigozhin in Belarus. The…
By Sasha Abramsky* | ScheerPost – TRANSCEND Media Service Eighty-one people have been confirmed dead, but roughly 500 more likely drowned when the ship sank, locked below decks. If you have been reading European news outlets the past several days, you’ll have seen a number of…
Masahiro Tauchi, Advisor, DEVNET JAPAN – Former Ambassador of Japan to Norway Establishment of NATO Tokyo liaison office and French opposition On 3 May this year, the Nikkei Asian Review reported that the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) plans to open a liaison office…
By Cavan Hogue*- Pearls and Irritations, Australian platform Jun 26, 2023. Russian Yevgeny Prigozhin, owner of the Wagner Group of mercenaries broadcasts a tirade against Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu accusing the military command of starving his forces of ammunition…
Belén Fernández* – Al Jazeera columnist The answer: a fascination with fascism that shows in Italy’s politics, no matter what the PM says Sometime in the mid-1990s, a half-Italian cousin of mine who resided in a real, live castle outside Florence took a break from majestic…
By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan (*) – Democracy Now! Titan and Adriana are two vessels recently lost at sea, four days and 4,000 miles apart. The five men who lost their lives on the Titan have been getting wall-to-wall coverage in the media worldwide.
By Andrew Firmin* LONDON, Jun 23 2023 (IPS) – The violence keeps coming in Myanmar, under military rule since February 2021. The junta stands accused of war crimes and crimes against humanity, with evidence of systematic use of killings, rape, torture and other gross human…
By Sasha Abramsky* – Truthout Eighty-one people have been confirmed dead, but roughly 500 more likely drowned when the ship sank, locked below decks If you have been reading European news outlets the past several days, you’ll have seen a number of lead stories on the horrific…
