Editorial – The Guardian Germans planned the genocide and carried out most killings. But they had helpers and informants who should not be forgotten “When you find yourself in a hole, don’t call for a bulldozer” is a useful maxim in diplomacy.
Posted by Lambert Strether – Naked Capitalism By David Halperin, who engages in public advocacy on a wide range of issues, and advises organizations on strategy, policy, communications, and legal matters. He is of counsel to Public.Resource.Org.
By Enrico Verga* Is neoliberalism, as classically incarnated at Davos, dead? Two major establishment organs give opposing answers.
By Chico Whitaker, Jorge Abrahão, José Correia Leite, Mauri José Vieira Cruz, Moema Miranda, Oded Grajew, Salete Valesan, Sergio Haddad. Some ideas about the discussions on the future of the WSF In February 2000, representatives of eight social movements, trade unions and…
By Roberto Savio* ROME, Feb 19 2018 -Since a few days, Amazon has started Amazon Go. The idea is simple: a shop where you go in, take whatever you want from the shelves, and the cost goes automatically to a magnetic card that you carry.
by Nadia Batok* Since 1991, when the former Yugoslavia collapsed, Makedonia – or Macedonia as it is generally known – and Greece have been engaged in a dispute over what the former should be called. Makedonia is a historical and geographical region in the Balkans…
By Siddharth Chatterjee* NAIROBI, Kenya, Feb 16 2018 (IPS) – Sexual abuse allegations against Oxfam staff, and failings in the charity’s response to them, delivered a body blow to an organisation renowned for years of humanitarian and development work. At the very least the…
By Stephanie Savell* – TomDispatch I’m in my mid-thirties, which means that, after the 9/11 attacks, when this country went to war in Afghanistan and Iraq in what President George W. Bush called the “Global War on Terror,” I was still in college.
Sisonke Msimang* – The Guardian South Africa’s unpopular leader is gone. But if the once mighty ANC is to have a future, this is what Cyril Ramaphosa must do Jacob Zuma, South Africa’s unpopular president, has finally been removed. Yet the terms of his departure were deeply…
By Stacy Mitchell * – The Nation The company is a radically new kind of monopoly with ambitions that dwarf those of earlier empires. Chris Lampen-Crowell started to feel the undertow four years ago.
