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When the news is wrong about my homeland
Oped, José González Vargas, Published on 11/12/2025
» The people of Venezuela conjure contradictory images, particularly for those living in the Global North. We're starved and oppressed masses under a totalitarian thumb, but also arrogant and pigheaded émigrés living in golden exile from Miami to Madrid. More recently, we are hordes of criminals, the scum of the Earth, flooding into the United States. Where's the truth? Where's the lie?
G20 must commit to debt relief
Oped, Olusegun Obasanjo, Published on 04/12/2025
» As G20 leaders met in Johannesburg last month, they faced a grim reality: many developing-country governments are spending more than they can afford on debt service. To keep funds flowing to foreign creditors, policymakers have been forced to cut spending on education, health care, and infrastructure. These countries have so far avoided default, but at the expense of their own development.
Cost, benefit of global value chain
Oped, Keun Lee and Isabel Álvarez, Published on 11/07/2025
» Geopolitics are a major driver of the deglobalisation now being spearheaded by the United States. But there are also economic arguments to be made for bringing supply chains closer to home. So, what are the economic costs of globalisation, and do they outweigh the benefits?
Tolerance makes Bangkok a world city
Oped, Philip J Cunningham, Published on 24/01/2025
» Bangkok is a city of the world, but is it a world city?
Nato dodges bullet on Sweden, identifies new rifts
News, Peter Apps, Published on 17/07/2023
» It's unusual for much to be left to chance at Nato summits.
Triads exposed
Oped, Postbag, Published on 06/12/2022
» Re: "Send the triads packing", (Editorial, Nov 29).
Covid-19's lessons for democracies
Oped, Yves Leterme, Published on 05/04/2022
» For more than two years, Covid-19 has taken lives, destroyed livelihoods, disrupted daily routines and dominated political discussion around the world. As the acute phase of the pandemic comes to an end, we must evaluate what Covid-19 has revealed about the ability of democratic systems to respond to such emergencies.
Climate push needs female voice
News, Laura Chinchilla & María Fernanda Espinosa, Published on 28/03/2022
» The world is well aware that the climate crisis is one of the main stumbling blocks to sustainable development. And yet, despite the dramatic evidence of the lethal consequences of climate change, and despite possessing the knowledge, technologies and resources to fix it, we continue on the same high-carbon path that threatens our survival.
Hungry ATM
News, Postbag, Published on 27/02/2022
» An ATM recently swallowed my overseas credit card and refused to return it.
A vision for global cooperation
Oped, Maria Fernanda Espinosa & Danilo Turk, Published on 28/10/2021
» The world faces a range of serious threats -- from exclusionary nationalism to great-power competition to growing inequality -- that are preventing the international community from working together to solve other complex challenges, such as the distribution of Covid-19 vaccines and the accelerating pace of climate change. But global crises require global solutions, and with his highly anticipated report, "Our Common Agenda", UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has outlined a new vision for multilateral cooperation.