Climate Change

The Implacable Desertification of Planet Earth

By Baher Kamal — Human Wrongs Watch

By Baher Kamal* – Human Wrongs Watch  Yet another under-reported human-made disaster: the relentless desertification of Planet Earth that may make uninhabitable some regions like the Middle East, endanger food security, aggravate climate crisis, and force more and more millions…

17 Jun 2019 · 4 min read
Commerce

Trump’s Trade Threats are really Cold War 2.0

By Michael Hudson — Naked Capitalism

By  Michael Hudson * – Naked Capitalism President Trump has threatened China’s President Xi that if they don’t meet and talk at the upcoming G20 meetings in Japan, June 29-30, the United States will not soften its tariff war and economic sanctions against Chinese exports and…

14 Jun 2019 · 5 min read
Democracy

The World Grows More Dangerous by the Day

By François Delattre — The New York Times

By François Delattre* – The New York Times My experience at the United Nations Security Council over the last five years has led me to see a harsh truth: The world is growing more dangerous and less predictable by the day. While the tectonic plates of power are shifting under…

13 Jun 2019 · 4 min read
Corruption

Secret Brazil Archive

Glenn Greenwald, Leandro Demori, Betsy Reed – The Intercept How and Why The Intercept Is Reporting on a Vast Trove of Materials About Brazil’s Operation Car Wash and Justice Minister Sergio Moro Análisis Part 1 A massive archive of previously undisclosed materials reveals…

12 Jun 2019 · 8 min read
Commerce

Driving Financialization

By Jomo Kwame Sundaram and Michael Lim Mah Hui

By Jomo Kwame Sundaram and Michael Lim Mah Hui (*) KUALA LUMPUR and PENANG, Jun  2019 (IPS) – The emergence and growth of financialization from the 1980s has been driven by several factors operating at various levels – national and international, ideological and political, and…

12 Jun 2019 · 4 min read
Civil rights

Leaked Messages Raise Fairness Questions in Brazil Corruption Inquiry

By Ernesto Lodoño y Leticia Casado — The New York Times

By Ernesto Lodoño y Leticia Casado – The New York Times RIO DE JANEIRO — Leaked private messages among law enforcement officials in Brazil have called into question the integrity of a vast corruption investigation that roiled the country’s political establishment and rippled…

11 Jun 2019 · 5 min read
Armed conflicts

The Death Squads in South Sudan

By Hilde F. Johnson — Vårt Land, Oslo

Johnson* – Vårt Land, Oslo Developments in Sudan are making us all hold our breaths, as we wonder whether paramilitary forces with a past in Janjaweed’s killing operations, will carry the day, and continue the terror we witnessed lately; or whether transition towards civilian…

11 Jun 2019 · 8 min read