By Prabir Purkayastha* – Independent Media Institute The U.S. tech war on China continues, banning Chinese equipment from its network, and asking its Five Eyes partners and NATO allies to follow suit. It is a market and a technology denial regime that seeks to win back…
As multilateral institutions attempt to respond to today’s unprecedented global challenges, one that already works well is the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB). Established in 1959 and headquartered in Washington DC., the IDB is widely recognized for its important role in…
By George Friedman*- Geopolitical Futures It’s been roughly five months since COVID-19 lockdown measures were first put in place. That means that come September, we will have gone two quarters like this with no end in sight.
The Latin American Reflection Roundtable (*) The Latin American Reflection Roundtable, echoing and in support of the statements of Latin American former Presidents, former Foreign Ministers and former Ministers of State, has convened a large and diverse group of personalities…
“GLOBAL SURVEY FINDS MOST PREFER EXPANDING GDP WITH HEALTH, EDUCATION, AND ENVIRONMENTAL DATA” The 2020 GlobeScan-Ethical Markets “Beyond GDP” survey repeats questions asked in 2007, 2009, and 2013 polls in Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, France, Germany, India, Kenya, Russia…
By Yanis Varoufakis* On 15th July, Ben Arc published in Bitcoin Magazine an open letter addressed to me in a bid to convince me that I should re-assess my rejection of Bitcoin as a force for good; as a bulwark for democratising capitalism and paving the ground for socialism…
By Marshall Auerback* – Independent Media Institute Another “landmark” agreement in reality makes incremental progress, but at a cost of ignoring a ticking time bomb in France. Samuel Beckett’s “Waiting for Godot” is a play featuring two characters waiting for a character…
By Glauco Benigni* The hierarchical and exploitative structure of the feudal era seems to have reappeared today on the Internet of the digital era. Regardless of any constitution and workers’ statute, neither politics nor trade unions are intervening. It is accepted that…
By Jomo Kwame Sundaram and Anis Chowdhury (*) SYDNEY and KUALA LUMPUR, Jul 28 2020 (IPS) – With uneven progress in containing contagion, worsened by the breakdown in multilateral cooperation due to mounting US-China tensions, recovery from the Covid-19 recessions of the…
The Economist It is not yet clear where it will lead In the form it is known today, macroeconomics began in 1936 with the publication of John Maynard Keynes’s “The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money”. Its subsequent history can be divided into three eras.
