Analysis By Philip Bump – The Washington Post President Trump’s declaration that the Thursday testimony of former FBI director James B. Comey was a “total and complete vindication” despite “so many false statements and lies” was the sort of brashly triumphant and…
Robert Fisk* – The Independent Only Shakespeare’s plays could come close to describing such treachery – the comedies, that is The Qatar crisis proves two things: the continued infantilisation of the Arab states, and the total collapse of the Sunni Muslim unity supposedly created…
By Baher Kamal ROME, Jun 8 2017 (IPS) – With a combined population of around 400 million inhabitants, 22 Arab countries are home to nearly 300 million youth–that’s 1 in 3 people. Meantime, there are other 400 million youth living in Asia and the Pacific.
Boaventura de Sousa Santos* This is 1913, we are at the hub of Europe’s cultural and political life, a hub that basically includes Vienna, Berlin, Prague, Paris, Munich, and, from a distance, also London. Cultural elites go on increasing their knowledge through newspapers…
By Robert O’Harrow Jr. and Shawn Boburg – The Washington Post The crowd rose to its feet and roared its approval as Sen. Jeff Sessions bounded onto the stage at the Breakers, an exclusive resort in Palm Beach, Fla. Stephen Miller, an aide to the Alabama Republican, handed him a…
Paul Krugman – The New York Times Donald Trump just took us out of the Paris climate accord for no good reason. I don’t mean that his decision was wrong. I mean, literally, that he didn’t offer any substantive justification for that decision. Oh, he threw around a few numbers…
By Baher Kamal ROME, Jun 5 2017 (IPS) – Now that president Donald Trump has announced the withdrawal of the world’s largest polluter in history—the United States, from the Paris Accord, perhaps one of the most specific warnings is what a United Nations independent expert on…
SANGER and JANE PERLEZ – The New York Times WASHINGTON — President Trump has managed to turn America First into America Isolated. In pulling out of the Paris climate accord, Mr. Trump has created a vacuum of global leadership that presents ripe opportunities to allies and…
By Ambassador Anwarul K. Chowdhury* – IDN-InDepthNews “I am proud to be a feminist… all of us need to be.
By Mario Osava* RIO DE JANEIRO, May 2017 (IPS) – The attack with guns and machetes that left at least 10 Gamela indigenous people wounded, in the northeastern state of Maranhão, highlighted the growing threats against the resurgence and survival of native people in Brazil. On…
