By Noam Chomsky and Vijay Prashad (*) – Globetrotter, Independent Media Institute Warnings that the oxygen supply was running out in the city of Manaus, Brazil, came to local and federal government officials a week before the calamity led to… Continue Reading
Editorial, The Guardian Conservatives continue to obsess about the burden to business of red tape, except where it is real – at the EU border Among the various grievances that led to Britain’s departure from the European Union, resentment of… Continue Reading
By George Wachira* – Business Daily, Nairobi –Expectations may be high, but the new president is unlikely to have much time at his disposal to address the wider world issues, many of which have evolved through acts of omission or… Continue Reading
By Martin Kettle* – The Guardian There was never a yardstick by which to judge the policy – so the issue will never be entirely settled It is two weeks since Britain finally cut its ties with the European Union.… Continue Reading
By Nomi Prins* -TomDispatch.com / The Nation The US government’s lopsided response to Covid-19 has only worsened astronomical levels of inequality. Sometimes things make sense only when seen through a magnifying lens. As it happens, I’m thinking about reality, the… Continue Reading
By Sonali Kolhatkar* – Independent Media Institute Blaming the deadly virus surge on individuals and their risky behavior ignores that the real fault lies with a government that chooses to prioritize the health of businesses over that of humans. Los Angeles,… Continue Reading
By Roberto Savio* People, planet and prosperity Italy has been given, for 2021, the Chairmanship of the Group of 20, which gather the 20 most important countries of the world. They represent, on paper, 60% of the world population, and… Continue Reading
By Tihomir Domazet* Fall of the Berlin Wall, the End of the Cold War, the Collapse of communism, all symbols of the victory of Western ideology, led by the United States, were to bring new economic prosperity to the West.… Continue Reading
By George Friedman * – Geopolitical Futures As of Jan. 1, Britain has completed the process of leaving the European Union. The EU has assured all that dire consequences will haunt the British. Certainly, there will be economic consequences for… Continue Reading
By Ishaan Tharoor* – The Washington Post If you’re like me, you were probably flooded with jubilant messages and memes about the end of 2020. Our black swan year of crisis and calamity, plague and polarization, is over. And in… Continue Reading
By Roberto Savio* It will be quite different from the one with the Soviet Union While the Coronavirus has rightly taken much of our attention, a fundamental geopolitical realignment has been taking shape in the world, and it will become… Continue Reading
Editorial The combination of Boris Johnson, Covid and Brexit is creating a constitutional crash that is waiting to happen in 2021 The Covid year has intensified potentially terminal strains within the UK’s four-nation union. When Boris Johnson began to grapple… Continue Reading
Editorial There’s no sign that ministers will use the twin shocks of the pandemic and Brexit to fix a broken system that is failing too many people When the UK entered the coronavirus age in March, state resources and collective… Continue Reading
By Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins* – Boston Review In his new memoir the former president makes clear he had no intention of being a savior. In October 2008, a month before the historical election that would make him the first Black president… Continue Reading
By Roberto Savio* Let us try to look at the situation from a distance To write about Venezuela has become extremely difficult. The country has become so polarized, that just two narratives are left. One, that the government has been… Continue Reading
The Economist Christmas chaos Border closure in the Channel: continent cut off THE TWO big stories in Britain in 2020, Brexit and covid-19, have developed in parallel, without having much impact on each other. But as the end of the… Continue Reading
By John Harris* – The Guardian Margaret Thatcher helped turn the Tory right into a force for instability – and now we are all living with the consequences What a strange, head-spinning moment this is. The news is awash with… Continue Reading
By George Soros* – Project Syndicate German Chancellor Angela Merkel has been laboring under enormous pressure to prevent a veto of the European Union’s 2021-27 budget and COVID-19 recovery fund. But the compromise she reached with Hungary and Poland is… Continue Reading
By Hazel Henderson* – Ethical Markets Media The earliest markets for metaphysical reconstruction evolved continually from changing belief systems, religions, creation stories, cultural fashions, and later from science fiction, futures forecasting scenarios. These changing styles of being and behaving are… Continue Reading
Editorial ‘Mrs Thatcher’s fingerprints can be found over Brexit.’ Brexit reveals the government’s ideological commitment to take the country back to where Margaret Thatcher left it Britain’s departure from the EU under Boris Johnson with – or without – a… Continue Reading
