By Baher Kamal * – Human Wrongs Watch 28 February 2019 (Wall Street International) — Do not panic! This is not about telling you how bank accounts and pension funds have been used to finance the production of nuclear bombs (they call it ‘investment’).
Robert Reich* – The Guardian The Mueller report looms but the president is doomed anyway – no one who screws the people so blatantly can win re-election Robert Mueller’s soon-to-be-delivered report will begin months of congressional investigations, subpoenas, court challenges…
Posted by Simon Lester – International Economic Law and Policy Blog This is from the U.S. statement at the February 25 DSB meeting: We also note that at least one Member has said that the United States should table its own proposal. The United States has made its views on these…
By Paul Krugman*, Opinion Columnist- The New York Times China can pay him off; places with rule of law can’t There’s been some good news on global trade lately: A full-scale U.S.-China trade war appears to be on hold, and may be avoided altogether. The bad news is that if we do…
Nadarajah and Jomo Kwame Sundaram (*) BHUBANESWAR, India and KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 26 2019 (IPS) – Do politicians’ words matter? Since becoming US President, Donald J Trump has dismissed his opponents and others he does not like as evil, stupid or both.
Ariel Cohen* – Newsweek Watching Vladimir Putin threaten to wipe out your hometown of Washington, D.C. in a national address is an unnerving experience; especially when viewing it in Moscow. Lately, Putin has not been shy about flaunting his shiny new missiles—and using them, if…
By Thalif Deen* UNITED NATIONS, Feb 25 2019 (IPS) – After an exhaustive study of modern day slavery, the Geneva-based International Labour Organization (ILO) concluded there are over 40 million people who are victims of slavery, including 25 million in forced labour and 15…
By Ana Swanson and Alan Rappeport (*) –The New York Times WASHINGTON — As President Trump dangles the possibility of extending a March deadline to reach a trade deal with China, his advisers are trying to secure firm commitments from Beijing to purchase more American products…
Kaufman* – HuffPost The oil, gas and coal industries’ donations heavily favor the lawmakers who have so far refused to back the only climate policy to match the scale of the crisis. The 12 senators co-sponsoring the Green New Deal resolution that Sen. Ed Markey (D-Mass.)…
By Nick Allen* – The Telegraph Bernie Sanders’ singular refusal to compromise the principles of his left-wing crusade have helped earn him the nickname “America’s Jeremy Corbyn”. In policy terms there certainly are similarities, although Mr Sanders sits somewhat to the right of…
