By Alison Small * NAPIER, New Zealand, Apr 2018 (IPS) – Rarely has the press been as powerful as it is today. Thanks to the advent of social media, the use of which has grown exponentially, the combination of the formal press, newspapers, television and radio is now…
by George Washington – Washington’s blog / Zero Hedge Forget what the Syrian government or the Ruskies say. The first Western journalist has interviewed doctors at the hospital in Douma, Syria which supposedly treated chemical weapons victims and is announcing what really…
By Paul Krugman* – The New York Times Peter Thiel, Facebook investor and Donald Trump supporter, is by all accounts a terrible person. He did, however, come up with one classic line about the disappointments of modern technology: “We wanted flying cars, instead we got 140…
By Mairav Zonszein* – The Nation Whether he consciously puts Israel’s interests first or whether he believes they are identical to US interests doesn’t really matter—the outcome is the same In an ominous coincidence of timing, John Bolton assumed his role as national-security…
By Adam Davidson* – The New Yorker On May 1, 2003, the day President George W. Bush landed on the U.S.S.
GEORGE PERENDIA – Wall Street International Magazine In his recent, excellent analysis, Roberto Savio has probably rightly brought to our attention the quickly growing issue of the social costs of robotisation (see Robots, unemployment … and immigrants). Nevertheless, however…
Daniel Nolan and Shaun Walker in Budapest – The Guardian Employees of state TV network describe how channels pumped out pro-government messaging ahead of Victor Orbán’s election victory this week A leading editor at Hungary’s state television network punched the air in…
Editorial Syria’s civil war has seen seven years of numbing brutality. A single attack will not affect its outcome Given recent history, it would take an extraordinary event and set of circumstances to arise for military intervention by Britain in the Middle East to be…
By Justin Gillis* -The New York Times From the day he walked into Congress as the nominee to head the Environmental Protection Agency, Scott Pruitt has been trying to foist a colossal lie on the American public. “Science tells us that the climate is changing, and human activity…
Boaventura de Sousa Santos* The Lula da Silva case blatantly shows that something is rotten in the Brazilian judicial system. It brings to the fore procedures and practices that are incompatible with the basic principles and guarantees of democracy and the rule of law, in a way…
