Daniel Levitt and Niko Kommenda – The Guardian –Hurricane season is here, and long-term trends paint a worrying picture –Carolinas flooded from historic Florence rainfall –Hurricane Florence is a climate change triple threat As Florence hovers over the US east coast…
By Brendan O’Connor* – The Nation At The Gateway Pundit’s far-right confab, Western chauvinism is the only idea that matters Last weekend, at an airport hotel in St. Louis, Missouri, hundreds of aging Caucasian conservatives gathered for a three-day long conference attended…
By Federico Mayor Zaragoza* In my book “La nueva página” (The New Page), published in 1994, I started the chapter on “Culture of War and Culture of Peace” as follows: “A new page in the history of mankind is being written, especially concerning the relationship between our…
By Zack Beauchamp* – VOX A new kind of authoritarianism is taking root in Europe — and there are warning signs for America The Hungary-Serbia border runs through a wilderness, tall grass flatlands ringed by imposing clusters of trees and thickets. When I visited a stretch of…
Prudy Gourguechon* – Forbes Twitter’s CEO Jack Dorsey described the company’s health initiative in his testimony to Congress earlier this month. The project was understandably overshadowed by security and safety issues in the coverage of testimony by Dorsey and Facebook COO…
By Lauren Carasik – The Nation The reforms to the IMF since the global financial crisis have amounted to window dressing. Ten years after the financial crisis, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) remains largely beholden to policies that undermine human rights and exacerbate…
By Justin Gillis and Hal Harvey(*) – The New York Times By pledging to cut its emissions in half by midcentury, China would propel itself into a world-leading role in the fight against global warming. SAN FRANCISCO — At long last, a handful of political leaders are starting to…
BBC World Myanmar’s Aung San Suu Kyi has defended the jailing of two Reuters journalists, despite international condemnation. She said Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo had broken the law and their conviction had “nothing to do with freedom of expression at all”. The two were sentenced…
By Roberto Savio* ROME, September 2018 – This testimony to Kofi Annan, former UN Secretary-General, comes a month after his death. Much has already been written, and it is now superfluous to recall his efforts for peace and international cooperation. It is better to place his…
By Ádám Fischer* – The Guardian I conduct orchestras all over the world, and I know that only if we work together can we have harmony Human rights are under attack from populist and nationalist movements across the world – in Hungary, Italy, Poland, the US and elsewhere. These…
