Analysis – Stratfor Summary EU leaders who feared that elections in the Netherlands would strengthen the wave of Euroskepticism building across the Continent were soothed by the worse-than-anticipated performance of the populist Party for Freedom. But although most Dutch voters…
Paul Krugman – The New York Times This week the Trump administration put out a budget blueprint — or more accurately, a “budget” blueprint. After all, real budgets detail where the money comes from and where it goes; this proclamation covers only around a third of federal…
By Jonathan Power* LUND, Sweden (IDN-INPS) – The state of being vigorously anti the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, is becoming out of control. It is in danger of becoming pathological and self-destructive.
Kaufman* – The Huffington Post Global warming poses an increased risk for asthma, lung illnesses, Lyme disease, Zika virus and anxiety, among other things. One morning in July 2011, Samantha Ahdoot’s 9-year-old son, Isaac, grabbed his clarinet, trekked up the hilly road to the…
By Juliet Eilperin and Brady Dennis – The Washington Post For more than a decade, Sen. James M. Inhofe has raged against the scientific consensus that humans are fueling climate change, calling it “the greatest hoax” ever perpetrated on Americans.
Burrowes* A recent report from Equality Now titled ‘The World’s Shame: The Global Rape Epidemic’ offered a series of recommendations for strengthened laws to deter and punish sexual violence against women and girls. However, there is substantial evidence that legal approaches…
By Baher Kamal ROME, Mar 2017 (IPS) – New evidence is deepening scientific fears, advanced few years ago, that the Middle East and North Africa risk becoming uninhabitable in a few decades, as accessible fresh water has fallen by two-thirds over the past 40 years. This sharp…
by Ivo Daalder* –Financial Times As secretary of state Rex Tillerson sets off on his first trip to Asia, he is not only leaving behind the press pool that normally accompanies the chief diplomat of the US on overseas visits, but a growing Washington consensus that he is losing…
Don Sambandaraksa* – Disruptive.Asia At Apricot 2017 last week, APNIC chief scientist Geoff Huston delivered a scathing, dystopian snapshot on how the telecoms industry has evolved from a public peer-to-peer service – where people had the right to access telecommunications – to…
By Nikhil Seth and Paloma Durán * UNITED NATIONS, Mar 2017 (IPS) – Just this year, public and private stakeholders from around the globe marked the one-year anniversary of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The milestone served as an important reminder of…
