BBC World Kyriakos Mitsotakis, who has won the general election in Greece, has politics running through his veins. His father Konstantinos Mitsotakis was prime minister in the early 1990s and his sister, Dora Bakoyannis, was mayor of Athens when the city hosted the Olympics in…
Robert Reich* – The Guardian The president is the puppet master so Americans of all persuasions must look behind him, to where the real danger lies I keep hearing that the Democratic party has moved “left” and that Democratic candidates may be “too far left”. But in an era of…
By Paul Krugman – The New York Times The pain is real, but the coercion isn’t. Donald Trump’s declaration that “trade wars are good, and easy to win” will surely go down in the history books as a classic utterance — but not in a good way.
By Ulrika Modeer and Susanna Moorehead (*) UNITED NATIONS, Jul 5 2019 (IPS) – The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, universally adopted in 2015, is a plan to create a better and more sustainable future for all in just 15 years, through 17 Sustainable Development Goals…
By James Reinl UNITED NATIONS, Jul 4 2019 (IPS) – A military strike on a detention centre for migrants in Libya that claimed dozens of lives on Tuesday Jul. 2 has reignited a debate over the poor treatment of the mainly African people who transit through the turbulent country…
By Sarah Saadoun* – Newsweek There is a bitter irony to the White House’s newly released economic development plan for the Occupied Palestinian Territory. Titled “Peace to Prosperity,” the plan was devised by Jared Kushner, Donald Trump’s son-in-law and senior adviser, along…
Tom Phillips* – The Guardian Protests, scandals, corruption claims, allegations of mafia links … ‘It’s the worst start to a presidency’ in decades, says pollster Brazil was just weeks from last year’s electoral earthquake when rock legend Lobão sat down outside his backyard…
By Frank Bruni* – The New York Times So many hot spots, so little time Any random heiress can sunbathe in the Seychelles, ski in Aspen or, with the right Sherpa and thermal wear, ascend the Himalayas. Only Ivanka has keepsakes from the Demilitarized Zone.
By Michelle Goldberg* – The New York Times A warmonger is the latest to lose his dignity to Donald Trump Say this for Donald Trump. He may be transforming American politics into a kleptocratic fascist reality show and turning our once-great country into a global laughingstock…
BY ZOLTÁN KOVÁCS – Index, Budapest On Tuesday, the Fidesz supermajority in the Hungarian Parliament passed a bill submitted by the Ministry of Innovation and Technology that ends the year-long struggle for the research institutes of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences…
