By Phillip Orchard – Geopolitical Futures The Chinese Communist Party may finally be getting out of the family planning business. Three years ago, the party scrapped its infamous one-child policy.
By Saleemul Huq * – The Daily Star, Bangladesh May 30 2018 – The Green Climate Fund (GCF) was set up under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) to channel much of the USD 100 billion a year starting from 2020 onwards that the developed countries…
Burrowes* In a recent article titled ‘Challenges for Resolving Complex Conflicts’, I pointed out that existing conflict theory pays little attention to the extinction-causing conflict being ongoingly generated by human over-consumption in the finite planetary biosphere (and…
Posted by Yves Smith* – Naked Capitalism Italian politics are messy even at the best of times. The battle over forming a government took a nasty turn. We’ll give a short overview and then make a few observations, in the hopes of eliciting informed reader input.
By Daniel Boffey * A case is being pursued against the European parliament and the council of the EU for allowing overly high greenhouse gas emissions to continue. Lawyers acting for a group including a French lavender farmer and members of the indigenous Sami community in…
Kumi Naidoo* – Project Syndicate Not since 1951 has the international community produced a treaty to protect the legal status of the world’s refugees. Now, two agreements are currently under discussion at the United Nations, and each offers a rare opportunity to protect global…
By Steven Donziger* – The Huffington Post The Real Irrefutable Truths About the Company’s Toxic Dumping and Fraud More than 20 years ago, indigenous and farmer communities in Ecuador’s Amazon went to court in the United States to seek compensation from Chevron for harm caused…
By Barbara Crossette* – The Nation Unlike Nikki Haley, his aim is destruction, not repair It did not take very long after the appointment of John Bolton as Donald Trump’s national security adviser for the United Nations universe—diplomats, the Secretariat, organization outposts…
By Dylan Selterman* – National Geographic Magazine. If everyone’s success depended on it, would you share—or be selfish?
Editorial Donald Trump’s meeting was all about grabbing plaudits for his over-sized ego rather than a serious effort to achieve peace on the Korean peninsula The commemorative summit coin has just been minted, but the peace efforts are already spent. Donald Trump’s decision to…
