By David Korten* – Common Dreams We are now faced once more with the logic of a global suicide pact. Everyone may recognize the danger, yet no participant feels free to withdraw from the competition. Artificial intelligence confronts humanity with a paradox of historic…
By Boaventura De Sousa Santos* – Meer Artificial Intelligence as a litmus test. The end of the Soviet Union and the socialist countries of Eastern Europe was hailed as the great universal consolidation of capitalism, considered the “natural” way to organize the economy and…
Sachs* – Common Dreams What the US president exhibits is a fundamental incompetence that places us all in grave danger. On Sunday the President of the United States stood on a golf course in County Clare, Ireland and was asked what he intended to do about the most serious…
The author, present in New York during the September 11 attacks, traces how the event shattered American confidence and contributed to the erosion of the American dream through subsequent failures in Afghanistan and Iraq, economic deregulation, and the 2008 financial collapse.
Latin America has served as a testing ground for capitalism and colonialism since the 15th century, alternating between cycles of oppression and liberation. The region witnessed major revolutions, democratic experiments, military dictatorships, and now confronts the experiment of reconciling neoliberal capitalism with democracy.
