ROME – Scores of arrests, a former city mayor mired in controversy and a horde of promises from the government for transparency and honesty.

ROME - It is now official: the current inter-governmental system is not able to act in the interest of humankind. 

ROME - The Swedish Social Democrat government, which took office only two months ago, has just resigned.

ROME- The fact that in a referendum Switzerland has rejected the anti-immigration policies sweeping Europe is an unusual fact which calls for reflection.

ROME - Less than a week after everybody celebrated the historical agreement on Nov 17 between the US and China on reduction of CO2 emissions, a very cold shower has come from India.

NEW YORK-In May, Ahmed Ouyahia, one of Algeria’s top bureaucrats and former prime minister, invited parties and civil society to debate President Bouteflika’s constitutional reform package.

 VERONA - I have taught at the University of Verona for 30 years - The only advice I can offer Italian students seeking a career in academia is to leave Italy.

ROME  - “An era can be said to end when its basic illusions are exhausted” is a phrase from Arthur Miller which applies well to the European elections that have just ended.

ROME-Not a day goes by without news on growing inequality that is a telling indicator of the economic model in which we have put ourselves following the neoliberal binge unleashed by the Washington

NEW YORK-When supporters began celebrating Abdelaziz Bouteflika’s fourth term even before the results of the Algerian presidential election had been confirmed, it was cl

ROME-The Vatican has for centuries welcomed a constant influx of visitors, no matter how high the seasonal peaks in summer months and around major holidays.

ROME-I founded IPS in 1964 and, until I left in 2001, I tried to give space to Latin American writers - I did the same with film directors for the time I was  RAI director for Latin America ( 1969-

ROME - In case you missed it, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released the final part of a report April 13 which says bluntly we have 15 years to avoid exceeding the “safe” threshold

PALERMO, Sicily -I must emphasise that I am neither an anthropologist nor a lexicographer and I cannot claim to belong to any of the other admirable disciplines that investigate origin of language.

LONDON-Revanchist nationalists of different stripes have just won 65 percent of the vote in post-democratic Hungary --The mystical Jew-baiting Jobbik party increased its share to 20 percent, so no

Cape May, NJ--Blaming the Palestinians for the apparent breakdown in Secretary of State John Kerry’s ill-fated shuttle diplomacy is like blaming the victim of a mugging for the crime.

LONDON--The key struggle in Ukraine is not between Russia and the West. It is for democratic values often associated with the West, but not always promoted by the West.

ROME- F.Scott Fitzgerald famously said “The rich are different from you or me,” yet in his days, in the early years of the 20th century, the rich were not subject to public scrutiny, and were gener

NEW DELHI--Ideally, the next government in New Delhi ought not to have to make hard choices early on in its honeymoon period.

PARIS--Ask the average American to discuss his philosophy and he’s likely to declare that he believes in rotating his tires every 10,000 miles.