Climate Change

Our Vanishing World: Insects

Burrowes* About 12,000 years ago, late stone age humans precipitated the neolithic (agricultural) revolution that marked the start and steady rise of civilization. Coincidentally, this occurred at the same time as the beginning of what is now known as the Holocene Epoch, the…

Democracy

Donald Trump: An American Tragedy for the U.S. and the Entire World

By Prof Rodrigue Tremblay* – Global Research “If this [U.S.] government ever became a tyrant, if a dictator ever took charge in this country, the technological capacity that the intelligence community has given the government could enable it to impose total tyranny…

Economy / Finance

In Hungary, Viktor Orban Showers Money on Stadiums, Less So on Hospitals

By Patrick Kingsley*  and Benjamin Novak- The New York Times FELCSUT, Hungary — The Pancho Arena stands about 20 yards from the country home of Viktor Orban, Hungary’s prime minister. The professional soccer stadium has a heated pitch, a museum, a spotless medical clinic…

Elections

Brexit Fatigue Is No Reason to Leave the EU

By  Gary Younge* – The Nation British MPs are tired of arguing, but that’s no reason to approve Boris Johnson’s disastrous deal There is a moment in the movie Primary Colors when presidential candidate Jack Stanton (played by John Travolta) demands that someone call his…

Armed conflicts

Are We Going Deeper Into The Middle-East… Or Coming Out?

ZeroHedge – Authored by Patrick Buchanan * (via Buchanan.org) Imperial Capital But America-First Nation “Let someone else fight over this long blood-stained sand,” said President Donald Trump in an impassioned defense of his decision to cut ties to the Syrian Kurds, withdraw and…

Politics

Evangelicals have stuck by Trump. But polls hint at trouble ahead.

By Gabby Orr* – POLITICO Backlash from Trump’s Syria decision has left him scurrying to shore up a critical element of his base. “I was concerned about it, but feel more confident after talking with POTUS and seeing the results of the cease-fire and the economic sanctions,”…

Climate Change

Fearless Young Women and Insensitive Men

Opinion, By Jan Lundius* STOCKHOLM / ROME, Oct 24 2019 (IPS) – On October 11, the Norwegian Nobel Prize Committee announced that this year´s Peace Prize is awarded to Ethiopia´s prime minister Abiy Ahmed: “For his efforts to achieve peace and international cooperation, and in…