Por Fernando Ayala and René Castro* COP 25 is an opportunity to relaunch multilateralism and save the planet All countries and their inhabitants are responsible for the future of the Earth, especially the new generations that will inherit a world in a coma, so it is not only…
By Tom Engelhardt* – TomDispatch.com He crossed the border without permission or, as far as I could tell, documentation of any sort. I’m speaking about Donald Trump’s uninvited, unasked-for invasion of my personal space.
Giselle Carino and Debora Diniz* – Newsweek For weeks, the world has watched with horror as the Amazon, the world’s largest tropical rainforest, has burned. Besides being home to indigenous Brazilian people, the Amazon rainforest plays a huge role in the regional and global…
By Thalif Deen* UNITED NATIONS, Sep 5 2019 (IPS) – The United Nations will be hosting six high level plenary meetings –- unprecedented even by its own standards—during the beginning of the 74th session of the General Assembly in late September. The meetings are being viewed…
By Francesco Martone* “Power inferno”, this is the title Jean Baudrillard gave to one of his essays in the aftermath of the attack at the Twin Towers , paraphrasing the title of a catastrophic film that hit the billboards years earlier , A “Tower Inferno”. A hell of power.
By Boaventura de Sousa Santos* Automatic tumble dryers notwithstanding, most people in the world (women, most often than not) hang the wash on clotheslines made of metal, hemp rope, or wood. Tree branches can also be used as clotheslines.
The Economist Cynicism is gnawing at Western democracies Democracies are generally thought to die at the barrel of a gun, in coups and revolutions. These days, however, they are more likely to be strangled slowly in the name of the people.
By Raoni Metuktire * – The Guardian You destroy our lands, poison the planet and sow death, because you are lost. And soon it will be too late to change For many years we, the indigenous leaders and peoples of the Amazon, have been warning you, our brothers who have brought so…
By George Friedman* – Geopolitical Futures All three countries are competing for power in the Pacific The United States emerged from World War II with complete control of the Pacific Ocean. Japan emerged from the war occupied and effectively governed by the United States. China…
Joseph Stiglitz* – Project Syndicate/ The Guardian An apparent move by big business to maximise stakeholder value sounds too good to be true For four decades, the prevailing doctrine in the US has been that corporations should maximise shareholder value – meaning profits and…
