Roberto Savio* When all is said and done, it appears that Thomas Hobbes, the 17th century English philosopher who had a dire vision of man, was not totally wrong. From the frivolous to the serious, in just a week we have had four items of news which would not happen in a normal…
Kenneth Roth – HRW ( in Público, Lisbon) New Strategy Needed for Second Half of Term When former Portuguese Prime Minister Antonio Guterres was elected United Nations secretary-general in 2016, many human rights activists welcomed the announcement. They hoped he would bring to…
Afua Hirsch – The Guardian As we’ve seen in the UK, attacking the identity of people of colour can be a route to political success Pity Donald Trump. Even his racism is the most unsophisticated kind.
By Joe Cirincione and Mary Kaszynski* – LOBELOG** This is not a drill. A new Middle East war is coming, perhaps soon. Only dramatic political action by the American people and their political leaders can stop it.
Pillar* – LobeLog** Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has been justly criticized for his creation of a Commission on Unalienable Rights, with the mission of redefining human rights. The move appears designed to base the redefinition on religious doctrine that Pompeo…
By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard* – The Telegraph If the Europeans persist in treating the International Monetary Fund as a hereditary fiefdom, they will destroy the institution. Global credibility will wither away. Asians will take matters into their own hands.
By Andre Vltchek – Off-Guardian.org The United States believes that it is so invincible, exceptional and so frightening that no one would ever dare to protest, let alone defend its people against constant humiliation, economic embargos and military threats. It used to be like…
By John Washington – The Nation Emiliano Monge’s novel Among the Lost leads a reader through the hellish migrant trail from the perspective of its most amoral agents. Sometimes a national conversation, no matter its constant news coverage, remains—at least for those not directly…
By Tamara Tutnjevic Gorman* NEW YORK, Jul 16 2019 (IPS) – Despite what you might have heard, things are getting better, every year. We are making amazing progress on fighting diseases, reducing the preventable deaths of children, and investing huge amounts to advance medicine…
Published by Focus on the Global South In the first half of 2019, a great deal of global attention focused on national elections in three countries where authoritarian regimes or personalities were in command of the state: Thailand, the Philippines, and India. The big question…
