by William Hartung* – lobelog.com When Donald Trump wanted to “do something” about the use of chemical weapons on civilians in Syria, he had the U.S. Navy lob 59 cruise missiles at a Syrian airfield (cost: $89 million).
While the global climate emergency is dramatically worsening, national and international institutions lack to take on their responsibilities.There is no time to loose! This is why social organizations, committees and environmental groups from around the world are joining a…
By Martin Khor* Global climate change policy is in a state of flux, with all other countries waiting for the United States to decide whether to leave or remain in the Paris Agreement. That treaty, adopted by 195 countries with great fanfare in December 2015 and came into force…
BY OWEN MATTHEWS – NEWSWEEK It was the day the world didn’t end; the day that the tide of populism that gave the world Brexit and Donald Trump turned; the moment when French voters chose pragmatism over protest. That, at least, was the judgement of Europe’s establishment at the…
By JOHN MCCAIN -The New York Times Washington, D.C. — SOME years ago, I heard Natan Sharansky, the human rights icon, recount how he and his fellow refuseniks in the Soviet Union took renewed courage from statements made on their behalf by President Ronald Reagan. Word had…
Clive Hamilton* We continue to plan for the future as if climate scientists don’t exist. The greatest shame is the absence of a sense of tragedy After 200,000 years of modern humans on a 4.5 billion-year-old Earth, we have arrived at new point in history: the Anthropocene.
By David Scott Mathieson – Asia Times National leader Aung San Suu Kyi’s studied silence amid a new uptick in anti-Muslim sentiment is the latest mark on her elected government’s rights record The April 28 forced closure of two madrassas in downtown Yangon by a mob of…
Paul Krugman – The New York Times On Sunday France will hold its presidential runoff. Most observers expect Emmanuel Macron, a centrist, to defeat Marine Le Pen, the white nationalist — please, let’s stop dignifying this stuff by calling it “populism.” And I’m pretty sure that…
Michael Jerryson* – Aeon Essays Westerners think that Buddhism is about peace and non-violence. So how come Buddhist monks are in arms against Islam?
By David Dayen – The Nation It’s important to understand what the GOP is trying to do. Every time some upstanding leftist brings up single-payer health care, the punditocracy dismisses them as deluded fantasists without any understanding of the realities of government or markets.
