Even if the UK parliament approves a Brexit agreement it will satisfy no one. The real choice the country faces is beween re-entering the EU or becoming a satellite of Washington.
Massive cuts by the Trump administration to the budget of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency will exacerbate an already marginal existence for Palestinian refugees in Lebanon.
Right wing members of Congress have invited the EDL founder to a major event in Washington DC, despite his criminal record.
The rights of those whose citizenship is contested will not be guaranteed by appeals to loyalty and patriotism, but by social movements that are not bound by the state.
The humanitarian crisis provoked by thousands of migrants that dream of obtaining asylum in the US has the entire region at crossroads. Español
Identity politics favours the political Right, since they are trying to win over a more homogenous group. Nowadays, as a result, the US eerily resembles Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Cuando las dos economías más grandes del mundo empezaron a imponer aranceles a sus importaciones respectivas, China apuntó a la soja estadounidense. Resultado: la demanda china de soja brasileña se ha disparado. English
As the world’s two largest economies began to impose tit-for-tat tariffs on a range of imports, China hit US soybeans. Since then, Chinese demand for Brazilian soy has spiked. Español
It is all too easy to throw up one’s hands in despair at the advance of the populists. Easy, but wrong.
Given US and Russian presidential capacity for springing surprises, we risk losing the degree of safety we gained with the end of the Cold War and have enjoyed since then.
What are world leaders doing? Where is the ‘international community’ Yemenis so often appeal to?
