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Pope Francis: Jesus-Like Anti Capitalist or Damage-Control PR Wiz?
Should we be concerned about the spanking new, seemingly universally loved pope who is making even some atheists doubt their position? Virtually none of the mainstream media have seriously...
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African Refugees Not Welcome: Xenophobia and Intolerance as Policy
For decades now, the tiny island of Lampedusa, Italy, a little over 100 kilometers from Tunisia and nearly twice that distance from the Italian coast, has been a primary destination for mostly African...
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Indonesia’s Elections: The Burden of Brutal Global Neoliberalism
Indonesia, the largest Muslim nation and archipelago on the planet, has climbed the ranks of global neo-liberalism to become the world’s 10th largest economy, as many newspapers announced on May 4,...
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What Fuels the Violence Against Palestinian and Israeli Youths?
Three teenagers who belonged to an illegal settler community in the occupied Palestinian lands, and went missing in mid-June, were discovered to have been murdered. As soon as the bodies of 16-year...
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Sustainable Ways to Feed the World Are Subverted by Corporations
Humans’ relationship to food is one of the most fundamentally shaping aspects of our societies. The sole fact that the majority of the world’s population now lives in urban centers is the direct...
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Jokowi’s Indonesia: Prime Example of Global Neoliberalism’s Failure
In September 2014, Indonesia, the world’s fourth most populous nation, the country with the biggest Muslim population worldwide, the tenth largest economy on the planet, and the largest archipelago in...
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A Perspective on the Rise of ISIS
One of the most popular pieces of “information” that is being circulated on the internet and newspapers in my own country of birth, Italy, is an announcement of the imminent arrival of ISIS fighters...
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Is the Biotech Industry Behind the Destruction of Italy’s Olive trees?
Italy is internationally known mainly for three things: its cuisine, its abysmal politics, and its vistas and beaches. In recent months, a series of events has developed that involve those three...
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Golan Heights and the Greater Israel Project
After the first ever cabinet meeting in the Golan Heights, Israeli Prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a speech on April 17, 2016 that the territory “will remain under Israel’s sovereignty...
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The Man Made Apocalypse of Weapon Systems and Climate Change
Our oceans are on the brink of collapse. Decades of pollution, micro-plastic “islands”, and over-fishing have reduced marine stocks and ecosystem to a fraction of pre-industrial levels. Pacific Salmon...
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