By Vijay Prashad* – Independent Media Institute Ahmed, who lives in Tripoli, Libya, texts me that the city is quieter than before. The army of General Khalifa Haftar—who controls large parts of eastern Libya—has withdrawn from the southern part of the… Continue Reading
By Yanis Varoufakis* While the media are reporting the news of the deadlocked EU Summit negotiations over the so-called ‘Recovery Fund’, an eerie silence prevails regarding the Elephant in the Room: The huge wave of austerity the Eurozone is sleepwalking… Continue Reading
Posted by Yves Smith – Naked Capitalism Yves here. We’re pleased to be presenting a post from a new site, RGK, which stands for “Reviving Growth Keynesianism”. It’s mission, as its proprietor Nicholas Johnson, explains, is to “republish and circulate… Continue Reading
By Thalif Deen* UNITED NATIONS, Jul 16 2020 (IPS) – The United Nations has been relentlessly pursuing a highly-ambitious blueprint for the sustainable future of humanity –harking back to the adoption of a new global economic agenda by the General… Continue Reading
By Kevin P. Gallagher and Jorge Heine (*) – The Hill Latin America has become the epicenter of the current global health, economic and social crises. The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), which has been the main source of development funding… Continue Reading
By Jomo Kwame Sundaram and Anis Chowdhury (*) SYDNEY and KUALA LUMPUR, Jul 2020 (IPS) – In his early February annual State of the Union address, US President Donald Trump typically hailed his own policies for increasing wages and jobs to… Continue Reading
Prabir Purkayastha* – Independent Media Institute After his disastrous handling of the COVID-19 epidemic, Trump is trying to improve his waning electoral chances by reserving all of Gilead’s stock of remdesivir The U.S. has bought up almost all of the… Continue Reading
The Economist –-The way we live now –The world is not experiencing a second wave: it never got over the first It is astonishing how rapidly the pandemic has spread, despite all the efforts to stop it. On February 1st, the… Continue Reading
By Alastair Crooke* – The Strategic Culture Foundation It was always a paradox: John Stuart Mill, in his seminal (1859), On Liberty, never doubted that a universal civilisation, grounded in liberal values, was the eventual destination of all of humankind. He… Continue Reading
By Jason Murdock * – Newsweek The Facebook advertising boycott has expanded to include more big-brands this week, with carmaker Ford, clothing giant Adidas, tech firm HP and U.S. retailer Best Buy each temporarily pausing spending on the social network. While social… Continue Reading
Editorial Europe’s largest and most powerful nation can provide necessary leadership amid daunting challenges As Europe emerges from the worst of the coronavirus pandemic, it faces challenges on an epic scale. In Italy and Spain, the spectre of spiralling, unsustainable… Continue Reading
By José Ignacio Torreblanca* – European Council on Foreign Relations From Putin to Trump, to Viktor Orban and Xi Jinping, several world leaders accuse the Hungarian magnate of wanting to bring them down. In Spain, his main enemy is Vox.… Continue Reading
By Simon Dikau, Nick Robins, Ulrich Volz – London School of Economics Ethical Markets highly recommends this report “TOOLBOX for Sustainable Crisis Response Measures for Central banks and Supervisors”, updating on all the steps the world’s central bankers and prudential… Continue Reading
By Tyler Durden – ZEROHEDGE (*) Authored by Stephen Roach via Project Syndicate Pandemic time runs at warp speed. That’s true of the COVID-19 infection rate, as well as the unprecedented scientific efforts under way to find a vaccine. It… Continue Reading
By Ellen Brown* BlackRock is a global financial giant with customers in 100 countries and its tentacles in major asset classes all over the world; and it now manages the spigots to trillions of bailout dollars from the Federal Reserve.… Continue Reading
By Cecilia Aguillon* LA JOLLA, California, Jun 22 2020 (IPS) – The COVID-19 pandemic and crisis has led to increasing attention and clamor to redouble efforts toward an energy transition that would help the world reduce C02 emissions. In many… Continue Reading
The Economist If America pulls back from global institutions, other powers must step forward Seventy-five years ago in San Francisco 50 countries signed the charter that created the United Nations—they left a blank space for Poland, which became the 51st founding… Continue Reading
By Gita Gopinath WASHINGTON DC, Jun 17 2020 (IPS) – The Great Lockdown is expected to play out in three phases, first as countries enter the lockdown, then as they exit, and finally as they escape the lockdown when there… Continue Reading
Editorial The pandemic is an opportunity to tackle the climate emergency by creating productive green jobs for those made redundant by the crisis Britain needs a green job-filled recovery from the coronavirus crisis. Unlike Germany and South Korea, it… Continue Reading
By Helena Bottemiller Evich* – Politico The food bank that serves the Washington area bought as much food in April as it would normally buy over three years as it scrambled to respond to an unprecedented level of need. The… Continue Reading
