By Margaret O’Mara* – The New York Times History shows that big businesses profit most when tariffs reign. America is entering a new era of tariffs. President Trump is in no hurry to resolve the trade dispute with China, he is adamant about imposing tariffs on Mexico, and…
By Thalif Deen* UNITED NATIONS, Jun 2019 (IPS) – The world’s 10 most under reported displacement crises— which have rendered millions of people homeless– have continued to worsen due either to political neglect, a shortage of funds or lack of media attention, according to a new…
By Ben Ehrenreich* – The Nation The alternative is the death of millions and a world fractured by nationalism. he ice is thin and getting thinner. On May 16, one Italian and four English scientists published the results of 25 years of satellite monitoring of the Antarctic ice…
ZeroHedge Why Trump Now Wants Talks With Iran – Authored by Pepe Escobar(*) via The Saker blog, If Tehran blocks the Strait of Hormuz it could send the price of oil soaring and cause a global recession Unlike Deep Purple’s legendary ‘Smoke on the Water’ – “We all came out to…
By Shane Croucher* – Newsweek The European media is keeping a close eye on President Donald Trump’s state visit to the U.K., which is preparing to leave the EU through its Brexit process and hoping to forge stronger trading links to America. Trump has clashed with the European…
By Michael Lim Mah Hui and Jomo Kwame Sundaram(*) PENANG and KUALA LUMPUR, Jun 2019 (IPS) – Finance has not stopped at dominating the real economy. The tentacles of finance have reached into significant, if not most parts of society.
Editorial Hobnobbing with the royals will boost the president’s ego. But this is not the greatest danger of rolling out the red carpet now Two and a half years after Theresa May rushed to become the first world leader to meet the newly inaugurated President Trump in Washington…
By Paul Krugman*- Opinion Columnist- The New York Times Why “tariff” isn’t a “beautiful word.” Donald Trump’s plan to impose tariffs on Mexican exports unless our neighbor does something — he hasn’t specified what — to stop the flow of asylum-seekers is almost surely illegal…
By Roberto Savio * The terrible feeling I had on waking up and seeing the Italian voting results at the recent European elections was that my country was suddenly full of strangers. How could the majority of Italians reconfirm a government which has been the most inefficient in…
By Baher Kamal* – Human Wrongs Watch How governments spend taxpayers money to subsidise fossil fuels that cause deadly air pollution – A reminder to mark 5 June World Environment Day Perhaps the most direct way to introduce this tough issue is what the United Nations secretary…
