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If Ramadi Is What ‘Victory’ Against ISIS Looks Like, We’re in Trouble

Tom Engelhardt January 29, 2016 Tom Engelhardt

Source: Tom Dispatch

City by city, state by state, the Middle East is being laid to waste — and then we’re bombing the rubble.

One of the charms of the future is its powerful element of unpredictability, its ability to ambush us in lovely ways or bite us unexpectedly in the ass.

Most of the futures I imagined as a boy have, for instance, come up deeply short, or else I would now be flying my individual jet pack through the spired cityscape of New York and vacationing on the moon. And who, honestly, could have imagined the Internet, no less social media and cyberspace (unless, of course, you had read William Gibson’s novel Neuromancer 30 years ago)? read more

How Kenya Confirmed the Deathbed of WTO: Reflections on the 10th Ministerial Conference

Horace G. Campbell January 12, 2016 Horace G. Campbell

The outcome of the meeting, the so-called Nairobi Package, was a slap in the face for the peoples of the South. It was especially egregious that the US used the 10th Ministerial, with the help of the Kenyan leadership, to undermine the future of Pan-African trading relations and to drive a wedge between the BRICS societies and those that the US wants to manipulate in the poor countries. The 10th Ministerial has hastened the demise of the WTO.

The Paris Climate Agreement: Hope or Hype?

Brian Tokar January 2, 2016 Brian Tokar

It has become a predictable pattern at the annual UN climate conferences for participants to describe the outcome in widely divergent ways. This was first apparent after the high-profile Copenhagen conference in 2009, when a four-page non-agreement was praised by diplomats, but denounced by well-known critics as a “sham,” a “farce,” and a mere face-saver.