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Environmentalists Are Raising Concerns Over China's Belt and Road Initiative

By Basten Gokkon — Pacific Standard

By Basten Gokkon* – Pacific Standard Environmental experts warn that many of these projects could cause irreversible damage in highly biodiverse areas As governments in Southeast Asia target economic growth through infrastructure development, China, the world’s second-largest…

19 July 2018 · 10 min read
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The Guardian view on the Trump-Putin summit: Russia is the winner

Editorial — The Guardian

Editorial – The Guardian Donald Trump was not adlibbing when he said his meeting with Putin might be the easiest part of his Europe trip. That was his intention too Before he left Washington last week for the Nato summit, his UK visit and talks with Vladimir Putin, Donald Trump…

18 Jul 2018 · 4 min read
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How Conservation Became Colonialism

By Alexander Zaitchik — Foreign Policy

By Alexander Zaitchik* – Foreign Policy Indigenous people, not environmentalists, are the key to protecting the world’s most precious ecosystems In February, a group of Cofán men dressed in dark tunics and bandoliers studded with forest seeds gathered around a fire pit in…

18 Jul 2018 · 14 min read
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Immigration: Many Myths and Little Reality

By Roberto Savio ROME — According to the latest statistics, the total flow of immigrants so far in 2018 is 50

By Roberto Savio* ROME – According to the latest statistics, the total flow of immigrants so far in 2018 is 50.000 people, compared with 186,768 last year, 1,259,955 in 2016 and 1,327,825 in 2015. The difference between reality and perceptions is so astonishing, we are clearly…

17 Jul 2018 · 12 min read
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What psychological science can offer to reducing climate change

ScienceDaily’s * The consequences of climate change are immense, and believed by many experts to be largely irreversible (and exponential), causing threats coming from heat waves, flooding, declines in agriculture, and decreasing biodiversity, to name a few. Given that climate…

17 Jul 2018 · 4 min read
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Trump, Putin meet in shadow of US election hack charges

By William Roberts — Al Jazeera News

By William Roberts – Al Jazeera News Helsinki summit comes days after 12 Russians are charged for hacking Democrat emails to tilt US vote in Trump’s favour Just as he did in Singapore with Kim Jong-un last month, US President Donald Trump kicked off his Monday meeting in Finland…

16 Jul 2018 · 4 min read
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Europe's immigration crisis still lacks a permanent solution

By Jennifer Clark — NBC News Digital

By Jennifer Clark* – NBC News Digital Does the European Union need its own Ellis Island? One thing’s for sure: The EU desperately needs a better policy to deal with undocumented migrants Europe’s leaders have taken a small step towards a common migration policy with their…

16 Jul 2018 · 15 min read
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American Fascism: Reading the signs of the times

BY IAN BURUMA*– ASIA TIMES     Comparing today’s demagogues with Adolf Hitler is almost always unwise. Such alarmism tends to trivialize the actual horrors of the Nazi regime and distracts attention from our own political problems.

13 Jul 2018 · 5 min read
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Q&A: Raising the Profile on the Largest Environmental Issue of Our Time

By Tharanga Yakupitiyage

By Tharanga Yakupitiyage IPS correspondent Tharanga Yakupitiyage spoke to Robert Scholes, ecologist and co-chair of Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Service (IPBES) assessment, about land degradation and efforts needed to halt and reverse…

13 Jul 2018 · 6 min read