By Roberto Savio* This op-ed by Roberto Savio, is adapted from a statement he made as a panelist on Migration and Human Solidarity, A Challenge and an Opportunity for Europe and the MENA region held on 14 December at the Geneva Centre for Human Rights Advancement and Global…
By Yanis Varoufakis* The rise of populism on both sides of the Atlantic is being investigated psychoanalytically, culturally, anthropologically, aesthetically, and of course in terms of identity politics. The only angle left unexplored is the one that holds the key to…
By Baher Kamal ROME, Dec 13 2017 (IPS) – “European governments are knowingly complicit in the torture and abuse of tens of thousands of refugees and migrants detained by Libyan immigration authorities in appalling conditions in Libya,” Amnesty International charged in the wake…
by Stanley L Cohen* US President Donald Trump is a great impersonator. Not a day goes by without his desperate effort to masquerade as human. Surrounded by faux gold and fawning fools from his earliest days, Trump has stumbled from scam to scam, bank to bank, grope to grope, as…
By Krista Mahr* – Newsweek In January 2016, Zimbabwe’s then-President Robert Mugabe gave a speech at the African Union in Ethiopia. As he railed against Westerners’ meddling in African affairs, the delegates repeatedly burst into delighted applause for the 91-year-old leader…
Matthew d’Ancona* Talks in Brussels are inching forward on ambiguities and vague promises. Those hoping that Theresa May is carving out real change may be sorely disappointe So, here’s an idea: let’s abolish the wheel.
By Francesco Martone* “While managing our livelihood, day-by-day, we have to face reality, we have to involve in a real fight to keep our forest. We are alarmed and concerned over the increasing cases of human rights violations, violence to our communities, criminalization of…
By Baher Kamal* ROME, Dec 7 2017 (IPS) – US President Donald Trump’s decision to recognise Jerusalem as Israel’s capital does not represent only a ‘kiss of death’ to the two-State solution, but also a strong blow in the face of 57 Muslim countries, let alone igniting fire in…
Daniel Gros- Project Syndicate The global economy today is dominated by three major players – China, the EU, and the US – with roughly equal trading volumes and limited incentive to fight for the rules-based global trading system. With cooperation unlikely, the world should…
Jonathan Freedland* – The Guardian The US president’s recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel turns a naked flame on the single most combustible issue in the conflict Not content with taking the US to the brink of nuclear conflict with North Korea, Donald Trump is now…
