By Shannon Osaka – Grist The New York Times and the super-wicked problem of climate change This weekend, the New York Times’ print subscribers will get something kind of crazy in the mail: A 66-page magazine with only a single article — and it’s on climate change. The long-form…
By Glenn Kessler, Salvador Rizzo and Meg Kelly – The Washington Post Fact Checker Analysis * Because of summer vacation schedules, we had fallen a month behind in updating The Fact Checker’s database that analyzes, categorizes and tracks every suspect statement uttered by the…
Deutsche Welle, Germany’s international broadcaster A UN agency has said Libya is not a secure port and returning migrants to the country might have violated international law. According to Italy, the Libyan coast guard coordinated the rescue in its own waters.
Angela Giuffrida – The Guardian Vessel may have broken international law by returning 108 people rescued from Mediterranean to Tripoli An operation in which an Italian towboat rescued more than 100 people in the Mediterranean and returned them to Libya may have been in breach of…
By Nathan Gardels – The WorldPost (*) As the United States abandons the postwar multilateral system it once led, China is stepping into the breach, laying the groundwork for a post-American world order. We are already getting a glimpse of what is to come through China’s various…
By John Scales Avery* – TRANSCEND Media Service Distributed on July 30, 2018 by Human Wrongs Watch “Anyone who believes in indefinite growth in anything physical, on a physically finite planet, is either mad or an economist.” — Kenneth E. Boulding (1910-1993) Why Are Economists…
By Henry Siegman* – The Nation And what Trump’s America teaches us about Netanyahu’s Israel My first encounter with America was in 1942. That’s when my parents, my five siblings, and I landed in New York following a four-week trans-Atlantic voyage during which our boat, the…
By Rodger Baker* – Stratfor Highlights –In contrast to the ideas of some of its proponents, the liberal world order is not the destiny of all societies around the world. –Those seeking to implement such an order have failed because they often don’t recognize realities on the…
Becker* It did not take long for the media to begin calling Donald Trump the “Teflon Don”. His tendencies to violate all manner of norms, standards and common civilities were obvious even before his hat landed in the ring for the Republican presidential nomination. His insults…
By Aaron Maté *- The Nation Does a broader public share this sense of crisis? No single act of Donald Trump’s presidency has engendered more criticism than his performance at the Helsinki summit with Vladimir Putin. For declining to endorse US intelligence claims that the…
