English

Has Trump Lost Control Of The Pentagon?

By Tyler Durden – Zero Hedge  Via The Saker, [4] The Pentagon’s more aggressive military approach Here is a short timeline of the Pentagon taking the presidential commander-in-chief power from Trump. The ultimatums came on March 1.

English

Erdogan entrenches himself

Editorial – The Guardian Narrow victory in a referendum is taken as legitimising the destruction of Turkey’s democratic institutions It is no exaggeration to say Turkey has entered a daunting and unpredictable new chapter in its political history as a result of last Sunday’s…

English

Making the future possible again

Boaventura de Sousa Santos* When we look at the past through the eyes of the present, we find huge cemeteries of abandoned futures, struggles that inaugurated new possibilities but were neutralized, silenced, or distorted, futures murdered at birth, or even still-born futures…

English

ACP: One Billion People to Speak To Europe with One Voice

By Baher Kamal ROME, Apr 14 2017 (IPS) – Seventy-nine countries from Africa, the Caribbean and the Pacific, which are home to around one billon people, will speak with one voice as they prepare to negotiate a major partnership agreement with the European Union (500 million…

English

Did You Know that the Oceans Have It All?

By Baher Kamal ROME, Apr 13 2017 (IPS) – Perhaps you are not aware enough of the fact the oceans have it all! Well, oceans have from microscopic life to the largest animal that has ever lived on Earth, from the colourless to the shimmering, from the frozen to the boiling and…

English

The Unbearable Cost of Drought in Africa

By Baher Kamal ROME, Apr 12 2017 (IPS) – Nearly 50 per cent of all emergency multilateral food assistance to Africa is due to natural disasters, with advancing droughts significantly threatening both livelihoods and economic growth, warns the African Union through its…

English

Assad vs Regime of Warring Jihadis

Fuller* – Lobelog How should we understand U.S. President Donald Trump’s cruise missile barrage last week against a Syrian airbase?

English

On Syria, an Administration in Disagreement With Itself

By THE EDITORIAL BOARD /The New York Times A weekend of official explanations for President Trump’s airstrikes on a Syrian air base has only deepened the confusion over his intentions, next steps and the legal basis for his unilateral use of force in the middle of that…