Helen Davidson – The Guardian The treaty determines entitlement to Timor Sea oil and gas reserves, including in the Greater Sunrise basin Australia and Timor-Leste have a permanent maritime border for the first time after the signing of a significant and unprecedented treaty in…
David Brooks – The New York Times What happens to American politics after Donald Trump? Do we snap back to normal or do things spin ever more widely out of control?
By Laila Malik and Inna Michaeli (*) TORONTO, Mar 6 2018 (IPS) – Since its explosion onto the social media landscape at the end of 2017, the #metoo movement has continued to gain global traction. Initially centred on powerful Hollywood women breaking decades of silence about…
By Paul Waldman* – The Washington Post President Trump was already expressing concern about the practices of America’s trade partners decades before he ran in the 2016 election.(Video: Bastien Inzaurralde/Photo: Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post) On most policy issues, when…
Holly Ellyatt | Matt Clinch (*) – CNBC The votes counted so far showed the Five Star Movement would be the largest single party. But a center-right bloc — which features the right-wing Lega party and former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi’s Forza Italia party — would gain the…
By Luigi Zingales* – Foreign Policy Italians are rearranging the deck chairs as their country irrevocably sinks. A few weeks ago, an Italian magazine asked me to illustrate graphically how I see Italy from abroad.
By Naimul Haq* DHAKA, Mar 2 2018 (IPS) – Nobel Laureates Mairead Maguire, Shirin Ebadi and Tawakkol Karman met with more than 100 women refugees in camps in the coastal Cox’s Bazar region of Bangladesh this week, as well as travelling to the “no man’s land” where thousands of…
By Nick Visser – The Huffington Post White House Hit With Several Shocking Reports In Less Than A Day Trump’s relationships with Jeff Sessions, Hope Hicks and Jared Kushner have all come under fire. An already complicated day for President Donald Trump’s administration was…
Samuelson – The Washington Post Anyone who tells you that dealing with climate change is simply a matter of sweeping away the obstructionism of oil companies is living in a dream world. The real obstacle is us — our vast dependence on fossil fuels and the difficulty of…
By Pier Francesco Zarcone* ROME (IDN) – It is not being dealt with by major media, but there appear to be new and dangerous winds of war about to blow in the eastern Mediterranean. On October 15, 2016, in a speech at the university that (modestly) bears his name, Turkish…
