Commerce

The Pressure on China

By George Friedman — Geopolitical Futures

By George Friedman* – Geopolitical Futures The Chinese People’s Liberation Army has begun minor operations to try to quell the unrest in Hong Kong. This is a step that the Chinese hoped to avoid.

19 Nov 2019 · 13 min read
Human Rights

End Rape—an Intolerable Cost to Society

By Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka

By Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka* UNITED NATIONS, Nov 19 2019 (IPS) – If I could have one wish granted, it might well be a total end to rape. That means a significant weapon of war gone from the arsenal of conflict, the absence of a daily risk assessment for girls and women in public…

19 Nov 2019 · 3 min read
Civil rights

UN calls for talks to end Bolivia crisis as death toll rises

Al Jazeera and news agencies Violent confrontations, highway blockades cause supply shortages as Anez moves to revise Morales-era policies. A Bolivian official said a United Nations envoy is urging the government of the Andean country’s interim president and supporters of…

18 Nov 2019 · 5 min read
Intelligence

Donald Trump Is America's Anti-President

Tribe* – Newsweek After just one week of public impeachment hearings, Donald Trump has unmistakably emerged as America’s anti-president, the very model of the charlatan George Washington warned might be overtaken by “the insidious wiles of foreign influence.” We have learned…

18 Nov 2019 · 7 min read
Books

“The Fire” – Naomi Klein

Book on Climate Change Naomi Klein is perhaps the currrently most outstanding international  climate and environmental justice activist of the world ! Of her,  famous peer Greta Thunberg, has said: “Naomi Klein’s work has always moved and guided me.

15 Nov 2019 · 3 min read
Civil Society

DANGERS AND QUESTIONS OF THE ZUCKERBERG ERA

By Roberto Savio

By Roberto Savio * Rome, Nov 14 – This year the Worldwide Web is thirty years old. For the first time since 1435, a citizen from Brazil could exchange their views and information with another in Finland.

14 Nov 2019 · 14 min read
Civil rights

The crisis in Bolivia fits no easy political narrative

By Ishaan Tharoor — The Washington Post

The crisis in Bolivia fits no easy political narrative By Ishaan Tharoor* – The Washington Post The dramatic resignation of Bolivia’s former president Evo Morales and his flight to asylum in Mexico have turned into something of a Rorschach test on the hemisphere’s politics. Many…

14 Nov 2019 · 13 min read