Roberto Savio – Publisher of Other News It is with great sadness and sorrow that I have to inform that MarcoNapoli died. He was one of the key managers of IPS. He was the founder of IPS office in the United Nations, and under his leadership IPS become one of the major media…
OPINION: Sharon McLennan – Stuff, New Zealand Honduras is a wonderful place for a short visit, despite its reputation as a one of the most dangerous places on the planet. Like New Zealand, it is small, beautiful, with an abundance of natural resources and a warm, welcoming…
BY DINO GRANDONI (With Paulina Firozi) – THE LIGHTBULB / WP In their bid to help Democrats recapture the House on Tuesday, environmentalists emphasized what they called the Trump administration’s failure to address the biggest environmental problem facing the world: climate…
Shapiro* – Geopolitical Futures Imagine a country – a Muslim majority country, no less – that viewed the spread of jihadism as an existential threat, a threat so serious that it was willing to sacrifice its own people to defeat it. Assume that this country, with its large…
Hoffman* – The Conversation One of the great challenges of tackling climate change is making it real for people without a scientific background. That’s because the threat it poses can be so hard to see or feel.
By Laura Carlsen* – The Nation “Central America just couldn’t take it anymore” “Central America couldn’t take it anymore.” That’s how Ruben Figueroa describes the October exodus of thousands of people from Honduras, El Salvador, and Guatemala fleeing north. “After decades of US…
By Pier Francesco Zarcone* Sorry to say so, but the future of the Palestinians is darker and more bleak than ever, because the Sunni Arab countries have become disinterested in them and they have no powerful friends in the world. Today their loneliness is stronger and more…
By Yascha Mounk* – Foreign Affairs With the Right Rising, Germany Needs to Do More Than Stay the Course As the head of the country’s biggest political party for eighteen years, and its chancellor for twelve, Angela Merkel has done more to shape contemporary Germany than any…
Merran Smith and Dan Woynillowicz (*) – The Globe and Mail Imagine you’re buying a car. The first dealership you check out has a number of them.
By Asoka Bandarage* – Asia Times The Parliament of World Religions is considered the “oldest, largest, most diverse and inclusive global interfaith event.” It has convened six times since its illustrious inaugural session in Chicago in 1893. The seventh Parliament is convening…
