George Eaton* – New Statesman. The End of History author on what Karl Marx got right, the rivals to liberal democracy and why he fears a US-China war. History is having its revenge on Francis Fukuyama.
Opinion, By Bret Stephens* – The New York Times A wink and a nod from Washington is the worst possible response to Riyadh’s butchery. Saudi Arabia’s apparent torture, murder and dismemberment of Jamal Khashoggi has been met in some quarters with more lamentation than outrage.
By Ralph Chami, Ekkehard Ernst, Connel Fullenkamp, and Anne Oeking* WASHINGTON DC, Oct 18 2018 (IPS) – Workers’ remittances—the money migrants send home to their families—command the attention of economists and policymakers because of their potential to improve the lives of…
Federico Mayor Zaragoza* Adopting a Universal Declaration on Democracy to enter into a new era in the proper way In San Francisco in 1945, at the end of the Second World War, United Nations was founded under the American leadership of President Roosevelt, with a Chart beginning…
By Ben Hubbard and Daniel Victor(*) – The New York Times BEIRUT, Lebanon — Secretary of State Mike Pompeo met with King Salman of Saudi Arabia, the crown prince and other top officials in Riyadh on Tuesday to discuss the disappearance of a prominent Saudi journalist who Turkish…
Introduction On the occasion of the 50th Anniversary since its founding, the Club of Rome will hold a major conference on October 17-18 in Rome. The background was a network of entrepreneurs, diplomats, scientists and economists, established in 1968 in Rome, on the initiative…
By Boaventura de Sousa Santos* Brazilian democracy is on the brink of the abyss. The institutional coup that was set in motion with President Dilma Rousseff’s impeachment and led to the unjust imprisonment of former President Lula da Silva is all but complete.
Angela Giuffrida * – The Guardian Mayor of Italian town hailed as a model of migrant integration is under house arrest Italy’s far-right interior minister, Matteo Salvini, has ordered hundreds of refugees to be moved out of Riace, a small town in Calabria celebrated around the…
By Patrick Wintour* – The Guardian World Bank joins CNN and Financial Times in pulling out of kingdom’s showpiece investment event A high-profile investment summit in Riyadh later this month is rapidly becoming a fiasco as prominent businesses and media groups pulled out over…
By Daniel Macmillen Voskoboynik* – openDemocracy Published and distributed by Human Wrongs Watch It’s time to join the dots between our overlapping crises of – and shared solutions to – environmental degradation, damaged health, racial oppression and gender injustice. ‘The…
