Dani McClain – The Nation You could be forgiven for thinking the movement has gone quiet. But you’d be wrong.
By Yousef bin Ahmed Al-Othaimeen* NEW YORK, Sep 18 2017 (IPS) – The Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), by virtue of its position of being the second largest international organization outside the UN system with 57 member countries comprising one fifth of the world…
Blow* – The New York Times That was only one in a string a tweets on Sept. 11 by ESPN host Jemele Hill in which Hill goes on to say that Trump is “the most ignorant, offensive president of my lifetime,” that he hired and courted white supremacists, that “His rise is a direct…
ANALYSIS , Shishir Gupta – Hindustan Times, New Delhi The international community has questioned Myanmar for the Rohingya crisis but has forgotten the bloody contribution of Pakistan-based jihadist groups to this catastrophe The UN Security Council has criticised the Myanmar…
By Nik Sekhran* UNITED NATIONS, Sep 15 2017 (IPS) – The United Nations, governments, civil society, business, thought leaders and media will gather in New York on September 17 to celebrate the winners of the Equator Prize 2017. The 15 prize winning communities successfully…
Opinion, Greg Sargent* – The Washington Post THE MORNING PLUM: Barely a few hours after Democrats announced that they had reached a tentative deal with President Trump on protecting the “dreamers,” Trump unleashed a steaming-hot morning tweetstorm that seemed to suggest that…
By Staff Correspondent – The Daily Star, Bangladesh Sep 14 2017 (The Daily Star, Bangladesh) – Twelve Nobel laureates and 15 other eminent global citizens yesterday urged the UN Security Council to intervene immediately to end the humanitarian crisis in Myanmar’s Rakhine state…
By Dr. Hanif Hassan Al Qassim* GENEVA, Sep 2017 (IPS) – Thanks to globalization and trade liberalization of commodities, services and goods, global trade has reached an unprecedented level. According to the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, world trade in goods…
George Monbiot* – The Guardian The perpetual quest for growth drives our economics. That’s why our environment and financial system lurch from crisis to crisis There was “a flaw” in the theory: this is the famous admission by Alan Greenspan, the former chair of the Federal…
By Vladimir Mitev* The former adviser to the European Commission of Jacques Delors, activist for the definition of water as a common good, instead of a commodity, university professor and left intellectual speaks with Baricada, telling the story of the transformation of welfare…
