Polychroniou – Truthout Interview Since the late 1970s, the world’s economy and dominant nations have been marching to the tune of (neoliberal) globalization, whose impact and effects on average people’s livelihood and communities everywhere are generating great popular…
By Secretary-General António Guterres* UNITED NATIONS, Jun 21 2017 (IPS) – It is impossible to be ten years as High Commissioner for Refugees, doing my best to try to help the most vulnerable of the vulnerable, without changing your life. And, indeed, not only witnessing the…
by Jim Lobe* and Giulia McDonnell Nieto del Rio – Lobelog The Washington elite is waking up to the increasingly real possibility that the Trump administration may be moving the country into yet another Middle East war. And much more quickly than anyone had anticipated. And…
Robert Fisk* – The Independent It is instructive that the West now expresses more outrage at the use of gas – it blames the Assad regime for this, of course – than at the continued cruelty of Isis The extraordinary destruction of a Syrian fighter jet by a US aircraft on Sunday…
By IPS World Desk ROME/GENEVA, Jun 20 2017 (IPS) – Nearly 66 million people were forcibly displaced from their homes last year, the United Nation refugee agency has reported. The figure equates to “one person displaced every three seconds – less than the time it takes to read…
Gideon Rachman – The Irish Times A security crisis in the Gulf state would be felt in boardrooms and finance ministries all over the world. For the past six years, there have been two Arab worlds.
John Redwood – The Guardian In two years’ time the EU will be able to pursue its aims without having to drag a reluctant UK along with it Tuesday 20 June 2017 The commencement of Brexit negotiations this week is good news for the UK and the EU. It is in the interests of both…
Johan Galtung* – EDITORIAL, TRANSCEND Media Service Humanity has had and has big projects. Mastery of nature is one, still going on. Middle range phenomena have been mastered, but not the micro level of viri–HIV is a current case–nor the macro level of climate–to the contrary…
By IPS World Desk ROME/OUAGADOUGOU, Jun 19 2017 (IPS) – Ignoring the plight of jobless young people in sub-Saharan Africa is a recipe for political instability and global insecurity, warned a high-level symposium of Africa’s interior, environment and foreign affairs ministers in…
by Gary Sick* – lobelog.com There are several things that I find confounding about the current conflict within the GCC: First, as a member of the US policy team that first applied sanctions against Iran when our diplomats were being held hostage in Tehran, we drew the line at…
