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PEACE: USELESS TO KEEP MAKING APPEALS. THE REVOLT MUST COME FROM WITHIN

By Riccardo Petrella

By Riccardo Petrella* The current rulers (political, economic and socio-technocratic…) are mentally and emotionally incapable of wanting to change “their” power system. What motivates them is the perennialization and expansion of their security and domination. That is why even…

4 January 2023 · 4 min read

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Can NATO and the Pentagon Find a Diplomatic Off-Ramp from the Ukraine War?

by Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. Davies (*) – CODEPINK NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, known for his staunch support for Ukraine, recently revealed his greatest fear for this winter to a TV interviewer in his native Norway: that the fighting in Ukraine could spin out of…

3 Jan 2023 · 7 min read

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The Tablet vs Paper

by Gunter Pauli* Paper stimulates the brain while tablets put your neurons asleep As author of 25 books and 365 fables I have a keen interest in understanding how to best reach my audience. More, how to succeed that my readers remember what I wrote, even how could I influence…

3 Jan 2023 · 12 min read

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European Far Right Saw Electoral Wins in 2022. Reversing Them Will Not Be Easy

By David Renton — Truthout

By David Renton* – Truthout The far right continues to grow in Europe, with extremist parties gaining ground in Italy, France and Sweden. With the defeat of Donald Trump in the 2020 presidential election, many of us hoped that the European far right would suffer a similar…

2 Jan 2023 · 8 min read

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Brazil’s Lula returns with Amazon dream team aiming to save the rainforest

By Karl Mathiesen — POLITICO

By Karl Mathiesen – POLITICO Deforestation in Brazil surged 60 percent under Lula’s predecessor, Jair Bolsonaro. Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva was to be sworn in as president of Brazil on Sunday, a moment he has claimed would help turn back a tide of destruction engulfing the Amazon…

2 Jan 2023 · 5 min read

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In dialogue: Perspectives on migration

By various specialized authors (*) – Princeton University Few phenomena sway global politics today as does migration. Economic volatility, violence-laden crises, and climate change produce millions of migrants annually and collectively threaten to displace much of the world’s…

30 Dec 2022 · 14 min read

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CLIMATE ISSUES TO WATCH IN 2023

BY UN FOUNDATION CLIMATE, ENERGY, AND ENVIRONMENT TOWARD COP 28 AND FASTER, MORE URGENT CLIMATE ACTION When it comes to climate change, 2022 was a split screen: As the world took several important steps to curb the climate crisis, its impacts continued to worsen. Our climate and…

30 Dec 2022 · 15 min read

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The “Spitzenkandidat” is back

By András Jakab — EUobserver

By András Jakab* – EUobserver The most effective way deal with illiberal member states is to make sure a Spitzenkandidat is running the European Commission The most stubborn misbelief about the European Union’s inability to deal with its illiberal regimes in Poland and Hungary…

29 Dec 2022 · 2 min read

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2022 Year in Review: 100 million displaced, ‘a record that should never have been set

By Newsroom — Modern Diplomacy

By Newsroom – Modern Diplomacy A hundred million people were forced to leave their homes in 2022. The UN continued to help those in need in a myriad of ways, and push for more legal, and safe ways for people to migrate.The 100 million figure, which includes those fleeing…

29 Dec 2022 · 7 min read

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Europe’s radical right: crossing the cordon sanitaire

Editorial — The Guardian

Editorial – The Guardian Progressive politics must respond to the normalisation of formerly fringe views that are now mainstream The legacy of a seismic political autumn is beginning to unfold. Just before politics adjourned for the Christmas break, the migration minister in…

28 Dec 2022 · 5 min read