By Branislav Gosovic* GENEVA, Dec 21 2018 (IPS) – The upcoming conference on the Buenos Aires Plan of Action (BAPA+40), scheduled to take place in the Argentine capital on 20-22 March 2019, ought to be more than just another UN conference where the developing countries assemble…
Paul Raskin* We are bound together on a precarious passage to a land unknown and unnamed. Even a stray dog, as Hannah Arendt once noted, has better odds of surviving when given a name. Likewise, the global future—the place we are going—needs an identity to encourage us to own…
By Reva Goujon* – Stratfor Highlights: –Referendums are a compelling tool to engage the public when it has lost faith in the ability of political institutions to uphold a social contract. It is little wonder, then, that referendums have seen a resurgence alongside the rise of…
Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers (*) – Truthdig The Pentagon’s own numbers show that it can’t account for $21 trillion. Yes, I mean trillion with a “T.” And this could change everything. But I’ll get back to that in a moment. There are certain things the human mind is not meant…
By Thalif Deen UNITED NATIONS, Dec 19 2018 (IPS) – The UN’s major donors – led by the United States – have long been accused of influence-peddling and misusing their financial clout not only to grab some of the high ranking jobs in the world body but also threaten funding cuts…
By Craig Timberg , Tony Romm and Elizabeth Dwoskin – The Washington Post Months after President Trump took office, Russia’s disinformation teams trained their sights on a new target: special counsel Robert S. Having worked to help get Trump into the White House, they now worked…
By Jomo Kwame Sundaram (*) and Anis Chowdhury KUALA LUMPUR & SYDNEY, Dec 18 2018 (IPS) – The notion of the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and later, South Africa) was concocted by Goldman Sachs’ Jim O’Neill. His 2001 acronym was initially seen as a timely, if not…
Of Cockroaches and Humans By Roberto Savio* Rita Levi-Montalcini, the Italian Nobel laureate honoured for her work in neurobiology, once gave a splendid conference with the title “The imperfect brain”. There she explained that man has a brain that is not used completely, while…
By Daniel Hentz* – Columbia Journalism Review** “The best minds in media should be giving sustained attention to how to tell [the climate crisis story] in a way that creates change,” wrote Washington Post columnist Margaret Sullivan in October. The question is, after two…
By Aline Robert – EURACTIV.fr / Distributed by Human Wrongs Watch Poland is hosting lobbying for coal and fossil fuels of a scale that has rarely been seen during an annual UN conference on climate (COP). The EU is turning a blind eye to this new facet of its It takes just one…
