UN to Launch Talks on Treaty to Regulate High Seas
Talks kick off in New York on Tuesday to negotiate a UN treaty on the high seas by 2020; this would extend the existing law of the sea framework beyond each nation’s territorial waters.
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Don Quijones: No Other Banks Are This Exposed to Turkey, Argentina, Brazil…. Emerging Markets Haunt Spanish Banks
To diversify from the euro-debt-crisis, the biggest Spanish banks pushed deeply into Emerging Markets. Now, they’re in a new crisis.
Read more...If Vanuatu Can Ban Single-Use Plastics, So Can the Other Commonwealth Countries
Vanautu is in the vanguard of commonwealth states moving to ban single-use plastic items, which are choking marine life, slowly poisoning fish (and those who eat them), and negatively affecting tourism.
Read more...White-Collar Criminals Got Off Scot-Free After the 2008 Financial Crisis — and That Helped Fuel President Trump’s Rise
Ten years later, Trump’s rise to power is a consequence of poor governance.
Read more...Could Turkey Trigger the Next Global Financial Crisis?
Why the currency crisis in Turkey is a due in part to the failure to take adequate corrective measures after the global financial crisis.
Read more...Brexit as a Tightly Coupled Process
Stepping back to look at the Brexit trajectory.
Read more...What Should the EU Do About the Turkish Currency Crisis?
The Turkish lira has been under significant pressure in recent weeks. What is the EU’s exposure to possible crisis in Turkey and how should the EU react?
Read more...The Trump-Media Logrolling
Looking at who the media has silenced in the Trump era, such as critics of America’s wars and of Israel.
Read more...Tom Engelhardt: America’s Groundhog Day Wars
A look at how long and how deeply the US has been mired in its many wars.
Read more...Ten Years After the Crash, Some Progress, But Much More Remains to be Done
A reading of what has changed since the crash and what problems remain.
Read more...Emerging Markets Swoon as Turkey Wobbles
A high level look at the upheaval in Turkey.
Read more...Amidst Rising Heat Waves, UN Says Cooling is a Human Right, Not a Luxury
The rising heat waves in the world’s middle income and poorer nations are threatening the health and prosperity of about 1.1 billion people, including 470 million in rural areas without access to safe food and medicines, and 630 million in hotter, poor urban slums, with little or no cooling to protect them.
Read more...ECB Fears Contagion from Turkish Lira Collapse, Bank Stocks Plunge
The Turkish lira’s swan dive is causing all sorts of collateral damage.
Read more...Puerto Rico: 1427 Hurricane Maria Deaths
Government of Puerto Rico presents report to Congress acknowledging 1427 Hurricane Maria details– more than twenty times the previous estimate it had given. Meanwhile, prospects for meaningful debt relief remain slight.
Read more...73 Years After Atomic Bombing of Japan: Nuclear Threat More Immediate Than Ever
In this Real News Network interview, conducted to commemorate the 73rd anniversary of the second atomic bomb drop on Nagasaki, historian Peter Kuznick reflects on how the nuclear threat is more immediate now than at any other time since the 1950s.
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