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…
Naomi Firsht * Jonathan Haidt on the crisis of resilience on campus. Worrying things have been happening on US campuses of late.
By THE EDITORIAL BOARD – The New York Times The news was hard to digest until one realized it was part of a much larger and increasingly disturbing pattern in the Trump administration. On Aug. 18, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine received an…
By Baher Kamal ROME, Sep 11 2017 (IPS) – When officials and experts from all over the world started the first-ever environmental summit hosted by China, they were already aware that climate and weather-related disasters were already seriously beginning to set the international…
BY ISHAAN THAROOR – The Washington Post There’s a population of around a million people living in fear right now, facing the likely wrath of an uncaring government that doesn’t seem to recognize their claim to the country they have always called home. The crisis along the…
