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. What made… Continue Reading
By Rafael Behr* – The Guardian The US risks being superseded by China as the prime global power within decades.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. After four… Continue Reading
By Anis Chowdhury and Jomo Kwame Sundaram (*) SYDNEY and KUALA LUMPUR, Jun 8 2021 (IPS) – With the pandemic setting back past, modest and uneven progress, huge disparities in containing COVID-19 and financing government efforts are widening the North-South… Continue Reading
by Nicolas J. S. Davies* A recent Yahoo News/YouGov poll found that worries about the COVID pandemic in the United States are at their lowest level since it began. Only half of Americans are either “very worried” (15%) or “somewhat… Continue Reading
By Hazel Henderson* – Wall Street International Magazine Revealed as driving positive human evolution! In Time to Dethrone Economics, I tracked the growing wake-up from the delusions of money-measured GDP growth and all the price-denominated, over-aggregated macroeconomic statistics that dominate our… Continue Reading
By Sonali Kolhatkar* – Independent Media Institute Native American communities living alongside the route of the Line 3 pipeline project in northern Minnesota are asking all activists to join them in solidarity this June A decades-old pipeline called Line 3,… Continue Reading
By Prabir Purkayastha* – Globetrotter / Independent Media Institute A virus that mutates forever is a perpetual money-making machine for Big Pharma. Everybody else wants the world’s population to be vaccinated to control the spread of the pandemic. After three… Continue Reading
By Sonali Kolhatkar * – Independent Media Institute While President Biden is backing the temporary lifting of COVID-19 vaccine patents, drugmakers are making dire predictions of stifled innovation and eroded public trust. What they really fear is losing profits Days after… Continue Reading
By Ellen Brown* – ScheerPost In a matter of decades, the United States has gone from a somewhat benign form of capitalism to a neo-feudal form that has created an ever-widening gap in wealth and power. In his 2013 bestseller Capital in… Continue Reading
Editorial – The Guardian The US is now backing plans that could help billions more access vaccines. The UK should follow suit The rapid emergence of Covid vaccines has been a remarkable yet bittersweet success, pointing to both humanity’s scientific… Continue Reading
By Michael Hirson, Tsveta Petrova, and Rickard Nyman (*) – The Diplomat Observers of China’s economy need to become more sophisticated in their understanding Beijing’s evolving and competing policy priorities as growth targets fall out of favor When senior Biden… Continue Reading
By Hazel Henderson* – Ethical Markets Media Today’s global casino is now experiencing yet another step change, as central banks shift their focus from austerity and debt to stimulus to cope with pandemics and climate crises and fending off Facebook‘s… Continue Reading
By Lambert Strether* of Corrente – Naked Capitalism Our political class does not believe that Barack Obama is a candidate for rehabilitation (“revered by liberals, moderates and even some Republicans“) despite recently pivoting to a consensus that his response to… Continue Reading
By Thalif Deen * UNITED NATIONS, Apr 6 2021 (IPS) – The 15,900-strong World Bank, which has funded over 12,000 development projects worldwide since 1947, is an international institution with a superlative reputation for its sustained efforts to end poverty… Continue Reading
By Tom O’Connor* – Newsweek The United States’ reliance on economic sanctions to coerce other countries is gradually losing its effectiveness and slowly degrading one of Washington’s most influential tools in international affairs, the power of the U.S. dollar, experts… Continue Reading
By Dirk Siebels* – The Conversation For a week the world was gripped by the extraordinary sight of a massive container ship that had run aground in the Suez Canal in Egypt. The Ever Given is 400m long (1,312ft) and… Continue Reading
By Thomas L. Friedman * – The New York Times We’ve stopped following our formula for success. Sometimes a comedian cuts through foreign policy issues better than any diplomat. Bill Maher did that the other week with an epic rant on U.S.-China… Continue Reading
By David E. Sanger* – The New York Times It may look like the bad old days of the Cold War, but today’s bitter superpower competition is about technology, cyberconflict and influence operations. WASHINGTON — Sixty days into his administration,… Continue Reading
By Sonali Kolhatkar* – Independent Media Institute More for Her Climate Warrior Politics Than Her Identity Indigenous Congresswoman Deb Haaland’s confirmation should not be reduced to symbolism. In her farewell address to the House of Representatives, New Mexico Congresswoman Deb Haaland said… Continue Reading
By Yanis Varoufakis* For Draghi bring McKinsey in as advisers makes clear whose interests will be served, and it’s not those of ordinary Italians. Last week, upon hearing that Mario Draghi, as Italy’s new PM, employed McKinsey to advise the… Continue Reading
