By James Lazou, researcher on health for Unite the Union for Open Democracy A Commonwealth Fund survey found the UK health system topped the poll on just about every criteria – so why are the Tories wrecking it? After all…
Concern is growing over widespread plastic waste that is threatening marine life – with conservative yearly estimates of $13 billion in financial damage to marine ecosystems, according to two reports issued at the inaugural meeting of the United Nations Environment…
Robert J. Burrowes Despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary, there is a widespread belief that all parents love their children. This is not so. Many parents are so badly emotionally damaged as a result of their own childhood experience that…
People have never consumed so much fish or depended so greatly on the sector for their well-being as they do today, UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) 9 Jun 2014 reported*. Did you know? Fish is one of the most-traded…
By Roberto Savio Reprint In this column, Roberto Savio, founder and president emeritus of the Inter Press Service (IPS) news agency and publisher of Other News, argues that it is time to rethink the Seven Deadly Sins in the light…
I was on the train on my way home in Sunnyside, Queens, when, just a minute before my stop, I saw canopies and lines of people on the sidewalks. I had my camera with me and the weather was so…
Forum of Environmental Journalists (APFEJ) welcomes the idea of having a separate ministry for Himalayan affairs in India’s Union government. The regional journalist forum, head-quartered in Bangladesh’s capital city Dhaka, expresses hope that Narendra Modi government in New Delhi would thus…
By Stephen Leahy UXBRIDGE, Canada, May 29 2014 (IPS) – The world is increasingly hungry because small farmers are losing access to farmland. Small farmers produce most of the world’s food but are now squeezed onto less than 25 percent…
The world contains an estimated 1 400 million cubic km of water, but only 0.003% of this vast amount -about 45 000 cubic km- are what is called “fresh water resources” – water that theoretically can be used for drinking,…
As has been well noted, just as the printing press changed the way information was disseminated in the Middle Ages which launched massive change and initiated processes of more generalised education and expansion of accessibility to literature and the written…
