By Pepe Escobar* Daesh may be dying – but the world is still encumbered with its walking corpse. Plan B of Daesh’s masters may have been to indoctrinate repeated waves of misguided youth across the EU and “seduce” them into D.I.
By MOTOKO RICH and DAVID E. SANGER – The New Yor Times TOKYO — What does Kim Jong-un want?
By Baher Kamal ROME, Sep 4 2017 (IPS) – Africa contributes only 4 per cent of global greenhouse gas emissions, while six of the 10 most affected countries by climate change are in Africa, warns a major agricultural research for development partnership, while stressing the urgent…
By Paul Krugman – The New York Times At one level it’s hard to take the Trump administration’s tax “reform” push seriously. A guy gets elected as a populist and his first two big proposals are (a) taking away health insurance from millions (b) cutting corporate taxes.
By Baher Kamal ROME, Aug 31 2017 (IPS) – Bako* (24), a Nigerian migrant, stairs at new comers at an old, local Roman bar. Extremely polite, he asks for money.
Analysis by Aaron Blake – The Fix (washingtonpost.com) Polling Donald Trump is one of the most difficult and confusing exercises in modern politics. In Trump, we have a guy who won the presidency by surprisingly beating the polls in key Rust Belt states, of course.
Jeffrey Sachs – CNn.com It’s important to politicize Hurricane Harvey. Not politics in the sense of political parties, or politics to win elections.
Russ Schumacher* – The Conversation Fifty inches of rain. Nine trillion gallons of water. The Gulf Coast of Texas, and especially the Houston metropolitan area, has been inundated by rain produced by Hurricane Harvey.
Sophie in ‘t Veld* – The Guardian From dubious deals with third countries to processing points in Africa, Europe’s response to migration is failing. But there are better ways to tackle it together The central Mediterranean migratory route has become the most lethal in the world…
By THE EDITORIAL BOARD OF THE NEW YORK TIMES It should be among the easier tasks of a cabinet member to affirm, without hesitation, that the president he or she serves represents the values of the American people. But that was more than Secretary of State Rex Tillerson could…
