By Baher Kamal ROME, Oct 20 2017 (IPS) – With 30 countries from Kenya to Indonesia and from Canada to Brazil now involved in the world campaign to beat pollution by countering the torrents of plastic trash that are degrading oceans and endangering the life they sustain, the UN…
By António Guterres* UNITED NATIONS, Oct 19 2017 (IPS) – I will travel to the Central African Republic early next week to spend United Nations Day with a peacekeeping operation in order to pay tribute to peacekeepers across the world. Peacekeeping operations are among the…
By HANNAH BEECH* – The New York Times BANGKOK — It was an anti-Communist blood bath of at least half a million Indonesians. And American officials watched it happen without raising any public objections, at times even applauding the forces behind the killing, according to newly…
By THE EDITORIAL BOARD – The New York Times Americans have long struggled with the question of whether this country should be more involved in world affairs, or less. The contest of ideas between internationalists and isolationists has been particularly fierce among…
By Baher Kamal ROME, Oct 18 2017 (IPS) – The world is running out of antibiotics to combat the growing threat of antimicrobial resistance, the UN World Health Organization (WHO) warned while announcing the World Antibiotic Awareness Week on 13-19 November. The reason, according…
By Joan Walsh* – The Nation The torrent of #MeToo stories reveals just how much time we spend dealing with this shit. You’ve seen the hashtag: #MeToo, posted by women testifying that they’ve been sexually harassed or assaulted, just as Harvey Weinstein’s long list of victims…
By Tharanga Yakupitiyage UNITED NATIONS, Oct 17 2017 (IPS) – Civil society groups have called on the United States to reverse its decision to withdraw from a UN body, citing concerns for press freedom and journalists’ safety. Citing anti-Israel bias and concern over the…
By Farhang Jahanpour* – TFF Associates (http://blog.transnational.org/) As was expected, President Trump has decertified Iran’s compliance with the nuclear deal or, to give it its full name, the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), despite the fact that he certified it…
By International Organization for Migration COX’S BAZAR, Bangladesh, Oct 2017 (IOM) – An estimated 536,000 people have fled Myanmar and arrived in Cox’s Bazar, southern Bangladesh, over the past 47 days, according to the IOM-hosted Inter Sector Coordination Group (ISCG) of aid…
By Paul Butler* – The Nation The nation’s largest police organization pursues policies that have deadly consequences for communities of color. “A pack of rabid animals.” That’s how John McNesby, president of the Philadelphia Fraternal Order of Police, described local Black…
