By Ishaan Tharoor*(with Sammy Westfall) -The Washington Post A couple months after launching Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, President Vladimir Putin tried to justify his war by pointing to the Western Balkans. In a meeting with United Nations Secretary General António Guterres…
By Al Jazeera Staff Thousands of teachers receive no salaries in Yemen, and many children drop out to work or fight. August has arrived, which in Yemen means that millions of students will be heading back to school.
By Simon Jenkins* – The Guardian Energy prices are rocketing, inflation is soaring and millions are being starved of grain. Surely Johnson knew this would happen? Western sanctions against Russia are the most ill-conceived and counterproductive policy in recent international…
By Rick Noack* – The Washington Post. Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban is facing backlash after a speech arguing that Europeans should not “become peoples of mixed race,” although the far-right leader is still slated to speak at the Conservative Political Action Conference…
By Rodrigo Guillot — Globetrotter Mexico’s President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) visited the United States on July 12 and offered five proposals to U.S. President Joe Biden. These proposals are based on AMLO’s in-depth knowledge of Mexican history and his reading of the…
By Baher Kamal* MADRID, Jul 28 2022 (IPS) – A wide majority, including the United States, has cheered the 22 July Turkey-brooked agreement between Russia and Ukraine to resume cereals and fertilizers exports from both countries. Such exports had been stopped since last February…
By George Friedman* – Geopolitical Futures Russia and Ukraine have signed an agreement to permit the shipping of grain through the Black Sea to world markets. A few hours after the agreement was signed in Turkey, Russia attacked the Black Sea port in Odesa.
By Ellen Brown* – ScheerPost In prescribing cures for inflation, economists rely on the diagnosis of Nobel laureate Milton Friedman: inflation is always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon—too much money chasing too few goods. But that equation has three variables: too…
By John Scales Avery* – MEER Climate change is an extreme emergency There is ample evidence that if the international community does not act immediately and effectively to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and replace fossil fuels with renewable energy, tipping points will be…
Buckley* – Newsweek Former President Donald Trump has been signaling his every intention of running for president again. But the polls are telling a different story about whether or not he should. Fewer than half of Republican voters support him as their preferred choice in the…
