By George Friedman* – Geopolitical Futures** Iran has always seen itself as being in competition with the Arab states for domination of the Persian Gulf. Its ambitions were put on hold in the late 1980s, at the end of an eight-year war with Iraq that cost Iran more than a…
William Becker* – The Huffington Post The tax reform bill that the Senate is rushing to pass this week has several flaws, but one is especially disappointing for most Americans: It breaks Donald Trump’s promise of a “great big, beautiful Christmas present” for the middle class…
By Baher Kamal ROME, Nov 28 2017 (IPS) – Believe it or not, the way to eradicate hunger from the face of the Earth is as feasible as it is handy. In fact, the current loss and waste of one-third of all food produced for human consumption would be just enough to feed the nearly…
By Jennifer Calfas – Money (Dow Jones, Time Inc) The richest people in the world have a staggering amount of wealth — comparable to the GDP of small countries for some. Many of the world’s richest, like Microsoft founder Bill Gates or Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg are…
EDITORIAL, Johan Galtung* – TRANSCEND Media Service Trump is trumping himself by making America Last, not in the sense of long-lasting, but in the sense of going down. There is something to learn for those receptive to learning, and Islam puts it forcefully: togetherness…
By António Guterres* António Guterres, Secretary-General of the United Nations, in his remarks on International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women UNITED NATIONS, Nov 23 2017 (IPS) – Every woman and every girl has the right to a life free of violence. Yet this…
Leonardo Boff* Whenever a World Social Forum is celebrated, a World Forum of the Theology of Liberation is also celebrated three days earlier. More than two thousand persons who work in this type of theology from every Continent participated: from South Korea, several African…
By Basildon Peta* – The Guardian Mugabe is gone but the Mugabe state lives on. The early poll British ministers and others are demanding would strengthen Zanu PF’s stranglehold on power To fully understand the euphoria that greeted the news on Tuesday night that Robert Mugabe…
By SPENGLER / Asia Times The Crown Prince has set off a complex chain reaction of political moves that affect the region’s political and economic stability Morbid curiosity draw attention to the real-life Game of Thrones now playing out in Saudi Arabia, but the stories of…
By Chakravarthi Raghavan* – SUNS Geneva, 21 Nov – As issues relating to the monopolistic/oligopolistic control over information and data by the Silicon Valley technology giants and their platforms are beginning to attract adverse public and political attention around the world…
