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
By George Friedman* – Geopolitical Futures In “The Storm Before the Calm,” I wrote of two crises coming to a head in the 2020s: a socio-economic crisis and an institutional crisis. The latter has hit us like a hurricane. There… Continue Reading
By Walden Bello* – Foreign Policy In Focus Hewing to its centrist instincts will be a disaster for the Biden administration. The left must seize the initiative. Donald Trump embarked on an unorthodox course in economic policy that combined tax cuts… Continue Reading
By Tim Schwab* – The Nation Thanks to the Microsoft founder’s support, the IHME can make its own rules about how to track global health. That’s a problem. A perennial feature of the Covid-19 pandemic has been the guessing game… Continue Reading
By Ellen Brown* – ScheerPost The Fed’s policy tools – interest rate manipulation, quantitative easing, and “Special Purpose Vehicles” – have all failed to revive local economies suffering from government-mandated shutdowns. . The Fed must rely on private banks to… Continue Reading
By Roberto Savio* The recent meeting of the G20 – scheduled to take place in Riyadh but held virtually due to the Coronavirus pandemic – has been an eloquent example of how the world is drifting, in a crisis of… Continue Reading
By Jomo Kwame Sundaram and Anis Chowdhury (*) KUALA LUMPUR and SYDNEY, Nov 24 2020 (IPS) – The World Bank has been leading other multilateral development banks (MDBs) and international financial institutions to press developing country governments to ‘de-risk’… Continue Reading
By George Soros* – Project Syndicate The European Union cannot afford to compromise on the rule-of-law provisions it applies to the funds it allocates to member states. How the EU responds to the challenge to those provisions now posed by… Continue Reading
by DEVNET JAPAN Technical Intern Training Programme (TITP), supported by Japanese government, has been built with the aim to help young people from developing countries acquire technological skills, or knowledge about Japan, and to contribute to their development in their… Continue Reading
By Walden Bello* – Foreign Policy in Focus For many, Trump’s ouster is a relief. But his steadfast support among white voters puts his party on a crash course with democracy. I’m one of those kibitzers who supported Joe Biden reluctantly… Continue Reading
