By Huma Yusuf – Dawn, Pakistan Aug 28 2017 – – QUESTION: what’s the best way to ensure that an issue gets state attention? Answer: make it a matter of national security.
Michael E Mann* We can’t say that Hurricane Harvey was caused by climate change. But it was certainly worsened by it What can we say about the role of climate change in the unprecedented disaster that is unfolding in Houston with Hurricane Harvey?
Paul Krugman – The New York Times As sheriff of Maricopa County, Ariz., Joe Arpaio engaged in blatant racial discrimination. His officers systematically targeted Latinos, often arresting them on spurious charges and at least sometimes beating them up when they questioned those…
By Jon Wiener -The Nation Amy Wilentz on what Jared wants Amy Wilentz is a long-time contributing editor at The Nation and former Jerusalem correspondent for The New Yorker. She’s best known for her award-winning books on Haiti, most recently Farewell, Fred Voodoo.
Burrowes* Racism is not a new phenomenon and while it is an ongoing daily reality for vast numbers of people, it also often bursts from the shadows to remind us that just because we can keep ignoring the endless sequence of ‘minor’ racist incidents, racism has not gone away…
By Ramesh Jaura BERLIN | NEW YORK (IDN) – The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) maintains a tight spider network around the world that enables it “to employ great ingenuity in using formal banking channels and bulk cash transfers to facilitate illicit endeavours,” a…
By ALEXANDER BURNS and JONATHAN MARTIN – The New York Times The relationship between President Trump and Senator Mitch McConnell, the majority leader, has disintegrated to the point that they have not spoken to each other in weeks, and Mr. McConnell has privately expressed…
By Michelle Chen* – The Nation The children who live through these conflicts could be scarred for decades. For the children who are struggling to survive the Middle East’s ongoing wars, the impacts could be life-changing. According to a new study, the trauma will likely continue…
The Thin Edge – Ruchir Joshi* / The Telegraph India History makes fools out of pompous and vainglorious leaders and regimes. If there’s one city that drives home this point today, it is Berlin. Sitting here, it makes for odd watching as white supremacists openly wave Nazi…
By Baher Kamal ROME, Aug 21 2017 (IPS) – Imagine a world with as many as one billion people facing harsh climate change impacts resulting in devastating droughts and/or floods, extreme weather, destruction of natural resources, in particular lands, soils and water, and the…
