By Martin Khor* PENANG, Malaysia, Jan 31 2018 (IPS) – With floods now causing more damage more frequently around the world, it is time to counter their effects by turning our towns into “Sponge Cities”, a recent trend popularised by China to absorb rainwater through permeable…
By ELISABETH ASBRINK* – The New Yor Times I met Ingvar Kamprad, the Ikea founder who died on Saturday at 91, just once. It was in August 2010 at Ikea’s head office, in the small town of Almhult, Sweden. (The address is 1 Ikea Street.) I was writing a book about his closest…
Burrowes* As our world spirals deeper into an abyss from which it is becoming increasingly difficult to extricate ourselves, some very prominent activists have lamented the lack of human solidarity in the face of the ongoing genocide of the Rohingya. See ‘The Rohingya tragedy…
By Suman Raghunathan* – The Nation Attacks against Muslim, South Asian, Sikh, Hindu, Arab, and Middle Eastern communities in the US were up a staggering 45 percent in 2017. There are two competing visions of patriotism in this country: one grounded in exclusion and the other in…
By Keith Bradsher* – The New York Times DAVOS, Switzerland — President Trump used the World Economic Forum meeting to woo investors and business leaders by reassuring them that “America first does not mean America alone.” But it was clear in Davos, Switzerland, this past week…
“Savio has a permanent residence: Indipendence and Freedom crossing” That’s what the Ambassador of Chile Fernando Ayala said about Roberto Savio, on the 23rd of January 2018 in the Embassy of Chile in Rome, while handing him the honor by the Government of Chile, for his support…
By Baher Kamal*- Part One. The nation of millions of jobless youth The nation of millions of jobless youth This is not about spoiling your day—not at all.
By Fernando Ayala* – The Wall Stret International Humanity needs to strengthen the multilateral system The international order that emerged in 1989 left the United States as the sole global power, which has since then been making itself felt by asserting hard power: political…
Boaventura de Sousa Santos * In 1845, shortly after he published the Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts of 1844, Karl Marx wrote his Theses on Feuerbach. The Theses were his first attempt at building a materialist philosophy that was centred on transformative praxis and…
Leonardo Boff* Most readers will find it difficult to accept what I am going to express here. Even though it is based on the best scientific minds that have been studying the universe, the situation of planet Earth and her eventual collapse, or qualitative leap to another level…
