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Trump’s global vision is a nightmare. The UN has to act

Mark Seddon* – The Guardian For the sake of world peace and security, António Guterres must stand up to this narcissistic bully The presidential cavalcades have departed Manhattan. But the aftershocks of Donald Trump’s speech to the UN general assembly still reverberate. “You…

25 Sep 2017 · 7 min read
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The EU Needs A Three-Child Policy – And China Should Pay For It!

by Tyler Durden –  ZeroHedge The EU’s policy of “replacement migration” is an economic failure and threatens to undermine China’s New Silk Road strategy for Europe by diminishing the continent’s much-needed consumer market potential, which should thereby serve as an impetus for…

25 Sep 2017 · 9 min read
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Myanmar’s Rohingya Crisis Meets Reality

By KEVIN RUDD  – THE NEW YORK TIMES The news coverage of Myanmar over the past several months has led many people to conclude that Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, the de facto leader of the country, has abandoned her responsibility to protect human rights. Hundreds of thousands of people…

22 Sep 2017 · 5 min read
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Monitoring Progress on UN’s Sustainable Development Goals

By Abby Maxman

By Abby Maxman* BOSTON, Massachusetts, Sep 22 2017 (IPS) – Two years ago, world leaders joined together to endorse a new and ambitious agenda not to reduce poverty but to eradicate it, not to lessen hunger but to end it once and for all, and not to overlook inequality but…

22 Sep 2017 · 4 min read
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Unmasked: Trump Doctrine vows carnage for new axis of evil

By PEPE ESCOBAR* – ASIA TIMES North Korea, Iran, Venezuela are targets in “compassionate” America’s war on the “wicked few.” It’s almost as though Washington felt its hegemony threatened This was no “deeply philosophical address”. And hardly a show of  “principled realism” – as…

21 Sep 2017 · 6 min read
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The Crisis of Refugees and Their Sufferings Call for a Solution

By Dr. Hanif Hassan Al Qassim

By Dr. Hanif Hassan Al Qassim * GENEVA, Sep 21 2017 (IPS) – The pursuit of international peace and security has been on the agenda of international decision-makers ever since the establishment of the League of Nations on 10 January 1920. There has been a constant ambiguity about…

21 Sep 2017 · 4 min read
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The Culture Veil. The real crisis of European multiculturalism.

By Joan W. Scott — The Nation

Scott* – The Nation On the fast train from Brussels to Paris a few years ago, I met a young woman from the Philippines who was taking a weekend holiday from her job in Belgium to visit France for the first time. As the train entered the outskirts of Paris, she turned to me and…

20 Sep 2017 · 22 min read
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President Trump at the UN: a Reaction

By Jessica Stern

By Jessica Stern * UNITED NATIONS, Sep 20 2017 (IPS) – On September 18 and 19, US President Donald Trump addressed world leaders at the opening of the 72nd Session of the General Assembly in New York. Time and time again, President Trump has threatened to curtail the United…

20 Sep 2017 · 5 min read
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Aung San Suu Kyi, a Much-Changed Icon, Evades Rohingya Accusations

By RICHARD C

PADDOCK and HANNAH BEECH – The New York Times NAYPYIDAW, Myanmar — Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, the Nobel Peace Prize laureate and de facto leader of Myanmar, stood before a room of government officials and foreign dignitaries on Tuesday to at last, after weeks of international urging…

19 Sep 2017 · 9 min read