Population

US births decline again, CDC says

By Dave Makichuk – Asia Times Data showed that fertility rates declined 2% for white and black women, 3% for Hispanic women and 4% for Asian women The number of births in the United States declined for a fourth year following an increase in 2014, according to a new report from…

Children

OUR CHILDREN'S FUTURE

By John Scales Avery* Loving care for our children We give our children loving care, but it makes no sense to do so unless we do everything in our power to give them a future world in which they can survive. We also have a duty to our grandchildren, and to all future generations.

Corruption

Bolivia has been promised elections. But will they be fair?

Linda Farthing * – The Guardian There is little faith – especially among indigenous Bolivians – in the elections called by interim president Jeanine Áñez As the dust begins to settle following weeks of upheaval in Bolivia, fresh elections are being promised in the new year by…

Development

Japan’s demographic time bomb is Asia’s warning

By WILLIAM PESEK – Asia Times The International Monetary Fund has a checkered past on giving Asia advice. Ask officials from Jakarta to Seoul about this, and you’ll get an earful. Now, it’s Japan’s turn to get some dubious guidance from the Washington-based institution…

History

The Pervasive Power of the Settler Mindset

By Nikhil Pal Singh* – Boston Review More than simple racism or discrimination, the destructive premise at the core of the American settler narrative is that freedom is built upon violent elimination. Image: A Kiowa ledger drawing possibly depicting the Buffalo Wallow…

Human Rights

EU states fail on sharing refugees

By Nikolaj Nielsen* – EUobserver.com (Brussels) A mandatory 2015 scheme to dispatch people seeking international protection from Greece and Italy across the European Union did not deliver promised results, say EU auditors. Although member states took in some 35,000 people from…

Commerce

The Strategic Battle for Lithium. Huge Reserves in Bolivia, Argentina, Chile

By Enzo Pellegrin – Global Research On March 15, 2018, Maurizio Stefanini, reporter of an italian right think-tank, complained that the huge reserve of Lithium present in Bolivia was in the hands of the State“” and of the bad example“” of Evo Morales. (1) In the same…