By Phil Harris ROME (IDN) – Do legal systems around the world give women and girls true protection from rape and other forms of sexual violence? Do the victims of rape and sexual violence have access to real justice if violence is perpetrated?
By Gillian Tett – Financial Times Frederick the Great of Prussia inked a deal with US officials to promote “commerce and amity” in September 1785. It marked a diplomatic coup: Germans were the first to cut a trade deal with the new American nation. Can Angela Merkel repeat that…
BY ANTHONY CUTHBERTSON – Newsweek The source of the leak, if it is an individual, is already being dubbed Snowden 2.0. The origin of a trove of documents released by WikiLeaks, which allegedly detail the CIA’s “entire hacking capacity,” remains unknown—leading to wide…
David Leonhardt, Op-Ed Columnist – The New York Times Many Americans over the age of 60 would have to pay more for health insurance under the Republican health care plan. Many low-income families would lose their insurance. Many disabled people, hepatitis patients and opioid…
Posted by Yves Smith – Naked Capitalism Yves here. I find this Real News Network interview with Colin Powell’s former chief of staff, Lawrence Wilkerson, to be astonishing. He effectively says that Trump may not be wrong in his claims that he was spied on. At the 50,000 foot…
Boaventura de Sousa Santos* Europe and the Global North as a whole are being assailed by a feeling of historical and political exhaustion. After five centuries of imposing its solutions on the world, Europe seems unable to solve its own problems and hands their resolution to…
By Lakshmi Puri * UNITED NATIONS, Mar 2017 (IPS) – Yayi Bayam Diouf became the first woman to fish in her small rural fishing village in Senegal despite initially being told by the men in her community that the fish wouldn’t take bait from a menstruating woman. When she started…
By Emily Cadei – Newsweek The replacement order aims to avoid the original’s troubles, but will it succeed? Updated | As Trump administration officials on Monday laid out the details of the president’s revised executive order suspending travel to the U.S. from six…
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.
