NEW YORK – The year 2015 was a hard one all around. Brazil fell into recession. China’s economy experienced its first serious bumps after almost…

The techno-narcissism of predatory neoliberal capitalism is locked into an endless war with the bastard monster of its own creation - Islamic State Fifteen years…

As Syrians gather in their capital Damascus to celebrate, there is a sense that the New Year will bring a measure of peace – the…

The good news is that one million migrants made it into Europe in 2015. The bad news is that Mein Kampf is back on Germany’s…

The Southern California gas company is now claiming they’ve “pin pointed” a massive methane leak in Porter Ranch, California. This methane leak has led to…

Philosopher John McMurtry was asked to “co-operate with Ayatollah Khamenei in the Supreme Leader’s letter to the Youth in Europe and North America”.  The questions posed…

A few weeks before seminal climate change talks in Kyoto back in 1997, Mobil Oil took out a bluntly worded advertisement in the New York…

Saudi Arabia—recently chosen to to head a key United Nations human rights panel—on Saturday executed 47 people convicted of "terrorism," including at least four convicted…

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan who wants to expand the powers of his office, has cited Hitler's Germany as an example of a presidential political…

Chinese oil company is poised to take over one of the 10 largest oil refineries in the world – a refinery in a U.S. territory…

International Monetary Fund Managing Director Christine Lagarde offered a bleak economic forecast for 2016 and beyond in a guest column published Wednesday in the German…

Just over a week before the U.S. signed the Paris climate agreement at the conclusion of the COP21 United Nations summit, President Barack Obama signed…