European Elections in the UK: A Brexit turning-point?
by Brendan Donnelly Director, The Federal Trust It is easy to sympathise with last week’s…
Browsing: Columns
Europe’s destiny is at stake
Léonce Bekemans initiates a ‘Europe 2025’ series on Social Europe, which will look beyond the May…
EU drive for trade liberalisation adds to tensions in Tunisia
by Werner Raza, Jan Grumiller and Bernhard Tröster The European Union’s disproportionate pressure for trade…
Civil Society seeks ‘togetherness’ against challenges
By Tharanga Yakupitiyage UN, Apr 16 2019 (IPS) – Increasingly facing restrictions and assault, civil…
World Bank dispossessing rural poor
By Jomo Kwame Sundaram and Anis Chowdhury Kuala Lumpur and Sydney, Apr 16 2019 (IPS)…
Global governance and Information
VIENNA, Apr 16 2019 (IPS) – The past seventy years since the end of the second…
Modern monetary theory: the dose makes the poison
Can government deficits be financed directly by central banks, as modern monetary theory suggests? The…
Building resilience through waste diversion and reduction
CASTRIES, Apr 12 2019 (IPS) – Jua Kali is a social enterprise tackling waste management and helping…
People do not ‘deserve to die’: Why death penalty persists
UNITED NATIONS, Apr 11 2019 (IPS) – While figures have dropped, the “inhuman” use of the…
The future of manufacturing—is it in Europe?
Europe can remain a manufacturing hub if it ensures early adoption of game-changing technologies, engages…
Once ‘world’s new superpower,’ civil society faces many odds
UNITED NATIONS, Apr 10 2019 (IPS) – A former UN Secretary-General, the late Kofi Annan, once…
Emissions inequality—a gulf between global rich and poor
The American congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez recently shook up environmental politics by releasing a broad outline…
Is climate changing: Reflections on a 1977-story
I zoomed back 42 years into the past as I was looking at my new…
The new spirit of postcapitalism
Raval, Barcelona, March 2019. The streets are full of young people (and not just students)—sitting,…
All what your jeans can (and do) hide!
ROME, Apr 5 2019 (IPS) – Paris, Milan, New York, Tokyo… These are just some of…
China Republic still UN Security Council permanent member?
UNITED NATIONS, Apr 5 2019 (IPS) – The Republic of China (Taiwan) withdrew from the United…
SDGs: Ambitions are affordable for Asia and the Pacific
BANGKOK, Thailand, Apr 4 2019 (IPS) – Three years of implementation of the transformative 2030 Agenda…
Full and good employment
Within the Democratic Party in the United States there is a flourishing of initiatives, promoted…
Has privatization benefitted the public?
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, Apr 2 2019 (IPS) – In most cases of privatization, some outcomes benefit…
How to govern a digitally networked world
Governments built the current systems and institutions of international cooperation to address 19th- and 20th-century…
Memory, myth and ‘post-truth’
Collective memory has always been a symbolic political battleground. Historians and politicians have long been…
Can data-labour unions break the monopoly capture of data?
Recently I attended a seminar in Stockholm on the Future of Work, hosted by a…
Only a national government can prevent “no deal” Brexit
At the time of writing it seems unlikely that the Withdrawal Agreement will be accepted…
Beverages from food waste: 10 brewers doing it right
Danielle Nierenberg Greetings from Baltimore! Today, we’re highlighting ways to prevent food waste. Last week,…
World Bank financializing development
KUALA LUMPUR and SYDNEY, Mar 26 2019 (IPS) – The World Bank has successfully legitimized the…
Without solidarity, democracy is lost
‘Western democracy is in crisis.’ Many pundits and scholars rehearse this narrative, in which the…
Tanzania Teacher sentenced to death for corporal punishment to pupil
All children are children of God who are entitled to dignity and respect. Ignorance lacks…
The system, youth and democracy
ROME, Mar 22 2019 (IPS) – If we ever needed proof of how the political system…
Green money without inflation
To what extent can the money created by the central bank be used to finance…
Was slavery world’s first human rights violation?
UNITED NATIONS, Mar 7 2019 (IPS) – The United Nations, which diligently monitors human rights violations…