By FRANK CHEN – Asia Times China media accuses former White House chief strategist of poisoning America’s understanding of the country and says it is happy that such a demagogue is now a Washington ‘outcast’ Former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon unleashed a volley…
Kaushik Basu * – Project Syndicate As inequality continues to deepen worldwide, we do not have the luxury of sticking to the status quo. Unless we confront the inequality challenge head on – as we have just begun to do with another existential threat, climate change – social…
Mirela Sula* – The Guardian Women who come to the UK as migrants are at higher risk of abuse, but shame and isolation prevents them receiving the support they need With no family support, no friends, no finance, no confidence, and often feeling isolated, many migrant women feel…
Halle Jørn Hanssen* The beautiful beginning On 9th of July 2011 the people of South Sudan gathered to celebrate their new won independence and freedom. State leaders from many African countries, heads of governments, foreign ministers, UN top officials and other dignitaries from…
By Nicole Goodkind – NEWSWEEK It’s been a good year for Democrats, and they have one man to thank for their success: President Donald J. Even as activists fight over the direction of the party and relitigate the 2016 election, the left is riding high on its first Senate win in…
Giles Fraser* The Guardian It’s the object of overwhelming projection, a place of dreams and longing. There can be no political peace there until Jerusalem the golden is understood Trying to organise parish pilgrimages to the Holy Land, I have often come across church people who…
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…
