BY CHRISTOPHER P. SKROUPA* –Forbes HAZEL HENDERSON INTERVIEWED BY CHRISTOPHER P.
by John Feffer* – LobeLog The first signs of decline are physical. Citizens don’t grow as tall.
BY ROBERT REICH – Newsweek Because the rules of the game – including labor laws, pension laws, corporate laws and tax laws – have been crafted by those at the top. Marissa Mayer tells us a lot about why Americans are so angry, and why anti-establishment fury has become the…
By Roberto Savio Rome, March 2 – Pablo has left us in his dreams, with the discretion and tranquility that have accompanied him his whole life. The side effects of cancer treatment had left him with limited capabilities.
Burrowes* It is already clearly apparent, as many predicted, that Donald Trump’s election as president of the United States would signal the start of what might be the final monumental assault on much of what is good in our world. Whatever our collective gains to date to create…
By Bertil Lintner – | Asia Times Many in Myanmar expected miracles when Aung San Suu Kyi’s elected government took office after decades of military misrule. The political reality has been more prosaic Myanmar’s first genuinely democratically elected government in more than half…
By Phil Harris ROME (IDN) – As wealth and well-being continue their inexorable course towards increasing concentration in the hands of fewer and fewer, an estimated 795 million people still suffer from hunger, and global food security is threatened by climate change and mounting…
By Eugene Robinson* – The Washington Post The Trump administration so far has been smoke and mirrors, sound and fury, self-proclaimed victimhood and angry tweets. Where is the substance?
William Keegan – The Guardian It is not just the British economy at stake: the absurdities and evasions of the Leave campaign are jeopardising hard-won stability across the continent There are many problems afflicting the British economy, and many afflicting the European Union…
DAVID FRUM – The Atlantic, MARCH 2017 ISSUE The preconditions are present in the U.S. today. Here’s the playbook Donald Trump could use to set the country down a path toward illiberalism.
