PLO releases report on Israel’s transgressions: Silence at the Security Council and security cooperation
Christof Lehmann (nsnbc) : The Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) released a report detailing Israel’s aggression and transgressions in Palestine and against Palestinians from January 1 through May 31, 2017. The report does not show an unprecedented rise in the incidence of killings and other transgressions against fundamental rights; Instead, More...
Dear Mr. President, Be Careful What You Wish for: Higher Interest Rates Will Kill the Recovery
Ellen H. Brown (nsnbc) : Higher interest rates will triple the interest on the federal debt to $830 billion annually by 2026, will hurt workers and young voters, and could bankrupt over 20% of US corporations, according More...
Linking lone wolf killers to Islamic State magnifies the threat – and could inspire future attacks
Alan Greene (TC) : While the magnitude of the attack on people enjoying a Saturday evening out in London on June 3 was not on the same scale as the carnage wrought on Manchester the previous month, terrorism and More...
Israel’s victory in the Six-Day War was a model of wartime media strategy
James Rodgers (TC) : Reporting on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is the ultimate challenge in international news. It demands a thick skin. In no other field of international diplomacy are journalists’ words More...
America’s mass incarceration problem in 5 charts – Why Sessions shouldn’t bring back mandatory minimums
Tanya Golash-Boza (TC) : Today, the United States is a world leader in incarceration, but this has not always been the case. For most of the 20th century, the U.S. incarcerated about 100 people per 100,000 residents More...
An untold economic success story in Syria
Pierre Krähenbühl (nsnbc) : Hidden almost literally under the rubble of the civil war in Syria is an economic success story that is rarely told. Hanan Odah is a thirty-year-old Palestine refugee living in Jaramana More...
Aimed to splinter both left and right: Macron appoints France’s most diverse government in 60 years
Paul Smith (TC) : If we have learned one thing about Emmanuel Macron in the first few days of his presidency, it is that he will not be rushed. After naming France’s new prime minister, Edouard Philippe, on May More...
Two more years needed to raise Russian minimum wage to subsistence levels: Medvedev
nsnbc : Russian Prime Minister and billionaire Dmitry Medvedev tries to explains Russians that he needs two more years to raise Russia’s minimum wages to subsistence levels. Social justice means equal opportunity. More...
Erdoğan declares victory in his pursuit of one-man rule
Ozerdem & Baser (TC) : After a long and contentious referendum campaign, Turkey has voted to endorse a package of constitutional changes that will turn the country’s long-established parliamentary system into More...
South Africa has lost a key line of defence against corruption. What now?
Seán Mfundza Muller (TC) : South Africa’s currency and bond markets plunged after a dramatic late night announcement that South Africa’s President Jacob Zuma had fired the Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan and More...
