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…
By John Nichols* – The Nation It has rewritten media-ownership rules to benefit giant corporations, including the pro-Trump Sinclair Broadcasting. Eighty years ago, the dawn of the modern communications age coincided with the rise of authoritarian leaders who controlled and…
By NORIMITSU ONISHI and JEFFREY MOYONOV – The New York Times HARARE, Zimbabwe — Robert Mugabe, who has ruled Zimbabwe since independence in 1980, resigned as president on Tuesday shortly after lawmakers began impeachment proceedings against him, according to the speaker of…
By DAVID SCOTT MATHIESON* – Asia Times Myanmar de facto leader conflated illegal migration with terrorism in a keynote speech, adding her voice to the Islamophobia that has justified persecution of the Rohingya YANGON, NOVEMBER 21, 2017 . Myanmar’s increasingly…
BY ISHAAN THAROOR – The Washington Post Last week in Bonn, the former capital of West Germany, the most unwelcome attendees at a U.n. summit on climate policy may have been the members of the delegation representing the Trump administration. President Trump, after all, made a…
