By Thalif Deen * UNITED NATIONS, Mar 7 2019 (IPS) – The United Nations, which diligently monitors human rights violations worldwide, believes that centuries-old slavery still exists worldwide—largely as human trafficking. The UN mandate on “contemporary forms of slavery”…
By John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service* We Are On the Brink of a Disaster What would Mahatma Gandhi say about the threat of war between India and Pakistan, which has brought the two nations and the world to the brink of a nuclear catastrophe? Throughout the struggle…
Burrowes* Tax havens are locations around the world where wealthy individuals, criminals and terrorists, as well as governments and government agencies (such as the CIA), banks, corporations, hedge funds, international organizations (such as the Vatican) and crime syndicates…
France 24 (source: AFP) Members of the centre-right European People’s Party have officially requested the exclusion of Hungary’s populist Prime Minister Viktor Orban and his Fidesz party from the group, a top official said Monday. Three months from the European Parliament…
By Ana Swanson and Jim Tankersley (*) – The New York Times WASHINGTON — The pain of President Trump’s trade war with China may soon be over, but American businesses and farmers are left wondering whether it was worth the trouble. Negotiations with the Chinese are continuing, and…
Sanger and Edward Wong (*) – The New York Times HANOI, Vietnam — As President Trump settled into the dining room of a French-colonial hotel in Hanoi on Thursday morning, the conversation with Kim Jong-un, the North Korean leader with whom he had struck up the oddest of…
By Jim Lobe* – LobeLog The ongoing war in Yemen, called the world’s “worst humanitarian disaster” by the United Nations and independent aid agencies since early last year, received a grand combined total of 20 minutes of coverage on the ABC, NBC, and CBS weekday evening news…
By LILI BAYER AND HANNE COKELAERE – POLITICO 4 parties call for Hungary’s ruling Fidesz to either be kicked out or suspended from center-right bloc. Four national parties within the European People’s Party urged the political group’s president Thursday to either expel or suspend…
By Hall Gardner* In commenting on the new status of Chinese President Xi as president for life, President Trump quipped: “And look, he was able to do that. I think it’s great.
By Peter Wehner* – The New York Times What they left out of their questioning of Michael Cohen says more about the degradation of my former party than anything they said. Michael Cohen’s testimony before Congress on Wednesday revealed as much about the Republican Party as it did…
