Richard Dalton* – The Guardian With demand for Iranian oil holding firm and no international support for sanctions, the US’s harsh approach has no future The US has declared economic war on Iran: after having pulled out of the UN security council-endorsed nuclear deal in May…
Editorial Bangladesh appears poised to repatriate members of the Muslim minority who fled the campaign of violence against them. They would be at grave risk Bangladeshi soldiers, police and paramilitaries have already moved into the camps at Cox’s Bazar where some 700,000…
By Hannah Osborne – Newsweek Three times more water is being sucked into Earth’s interior through its subduction zones than was previously thought, scientists have discovered. These huge fissures that scar the planet’s surface appear at the boundaries of tectonic plates. When…
By John Feffe – TomDispatch It’s called climate change, and we’re running out of time to solve it. The mid-term elections are over, and the Democrats have regained the House, but the rest of American political reality remains intact.
By Thalif Deen* UNITED NATIONS, Nov 14 2018 (IPS) – A former French president once remarked: Never pick a fight with a little kid or the press. The kid will throw the last stone at you and the press will have the last word.
By Joe Freeman – The Tricycle (*) Once hailed, now reviled: five takes on Myanmar’s de facto leader Thinking back, it was like a celebration. There was music, dancing, camaraderie, cheering. I stood in front of the headquarters of the National League for Democracy in Yangon and…
By Norman Eisen and Jeffrey Gedmin (*) (CNN) If there is one painful lesson that we have learned in the 100 years since the end of World War I, it is that democracy’s friends on both sides of the Atlantic must speak up when it is under assault. That is why we are…
By James Carden* – The Nation Three new books make the case against a failed grand strategy In the nearly two years since President Donald J. Trump took office there has been an outpouring of commentary decrying the end of an era, now just past, when the United States could be…
Raghu Murtugudde* – Newsweek In 2014, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) warned that limiting global warming to 2C by 2100 could not be achieved without employing technologies to drawdown carbon from the atmosphere. A recently released report by the same UN…
Essay by Renato Moro* – Università degli Studi Roma Tre Do not underestimate Italy and Italians in politics, ever. Light and atrocity, spontaneity and passion, art and religion, beauty and crime have always been foreigners’ fundamental keys to understanding Italian life.
