Merkel to put climate change at centre of G20 talks after Trump's Paris pullout

by Jim Lobe – lobelog.com Given the fast-moving events in the Persian Gulf region over the past two weeks, LobeLog decided to consult Chas W. Freeman, Jr. (1), whose occasional lectures on key foreign policy issues have been featured on this site for several years.

Francine Mestrum, Brussels , Global Social Justice  At the Asia-Europe’s People’s Forum (AEPF) of July 2016 in Ulaan Bator, Mongolia, some people sat together and decided to take an initiative for a global charter on social protection rights. The main reason was that we are…

by Derek Davison * – LobeLog More than two weeks after they began boycotting Qatar, four Arab nations—Bahrain, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates—have presented the Qataris with a list of demands that they say Doha must meet in order to end this ongoing Persian…

By IPS World Desk ROME, Jun 23 2017 (IPS) – Record high temperatures are gripping much of the globe and more hot weather are to come. This implies more drought, more food insecurity, more famine and more massive human displacements.

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…