By Jacek Bartosiak * -Geopolitical Futures A theory used to explain the Peloponnesian War can also be applied to the growing tensions between the U.S. and China Roughly 2,400 years ago, Thucydides, a Greek historian and author of “History of the Peloponnesian War,”…
By Nahal Toosi* – POLITICO In a summit of self-interest, the U.S. president tried to make Putin understand that it’s in Russia’s interest to play nice with the United States. More than once on Wednesday, as President Joe Biden described his meeting with Vladimir Putin, he tried…
By Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. Davies (*) – CODEPINK The world has been treated to successive spectacles of national leaders gathering at a G7 Summit in Cornwall and a NATO Summit in Brussels.
By Simon Jenkins* – The Guardian Before world leaders met in Cornwall, finance ministers had made an agreement that could spell the end of tax havens G7 summits nowadays are mostly fields of the cloth of gold. They are about showing off, with Boris Johnson in full Henry VIII rig.
By Mark Blyth* – The Guardian Finance ministers finally seem willing to crack down on avoidance. But the rich may just slip through the loopholes Back in the 1980s there was a New York hotelier named Leona Helmsley.
By Rafael Behr* – The Guardian The US risks being superseded by China as the prime global power within decades. For Washington, the idea is appalling Joe Biden crosses the Atlantic this week on a tide of goodwill.
By George Friedman* – Geopolitical Futures Russia and the European Union held a conference last week, during which Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said in a speech: “The situation remains rather alarming. Our common European continent is experiencing an…
Herszenhorn* – POLITICO European leaders are thrilled to have Joe Biden and a return to the friendly American exceptionalism they know so well. With Joe Biden preparing for his first trip abroad as president, European leaders are noticing a change in the transatlantic air.
By Barbara Crossette* NEW YORK, May 12 2021 (IPS) – It was all over in one crucial week. Barring an unforeseen hitch, António Guterres is the clear winner of a second, five-year term as secretary-general of the United Nations, beginning on…
By Noam Chomsky and Vijay Prashad (*) – Independent Media Institute The U.S. invasion of Afghanistan in October 2001 was criminal. It was criminal because of the immense force used to demolish Afghanistan’s physical infrastructure and to break open its social bonds.
