By Baher Kamal* – Human Wrongs Watch How governments spend taxpayers money to subsidise fossil fuels that cause deadly air pollution – A reminder to mark 5 June World Environment Day Perhaps the most direct way to introduce this tough issue is what the United Nations secretary…
By Ellen Brown * – WEB OF DEBT BLOG This article is excerpted from my new book Banking on the People: Democratizing Money in the Digital Age, available in paperback June 1. The U.S. federal debt has more than doubled since the 2008 financial crisis, shooting up from $9.4…
By GURSHABAD GROVER* – The Indian Express India needs to prove company aids Chinese government, or risk playing into US hands. The Trump administration has not only passed orders restricting the US government and its departments from procuring networking equipment from Chinese…
Sanger* – The New York Times President Trump has finally succeeded in building his wall: not the one he keeps demanding on the southwestern border, but a far more complex barrier meant to block China’s national telecommunications champion, Huawei, from operating in the United…
By Mushahid Hussain * To mark the 40th anniversary of China’s Reform and Opening up Policy, initiated by the great visionary leader Deng Xiaoping in 1978, The New York Times started a series of articles on November 18, 2018, beginning with the title ‘The Land that Failed to…
By Mashal Hashem and James Allen (*) – TomDispatch.com. /The Nation In 2018 alone, weapons manufacturers—who spend millions in lobbying efforts to retain political support in Washington—made over $5 billion in arms sales to Saudi Arabia and the UAE. A springtime wedding in…
Posted by Yves Smith – Naked Capitalism This is a useful article as far as it goes, but it may not go far enough for the taste of some readers. The first is that it may miss the real source of the outtrade between the US and China, which is that China appears not to accept a…
By William Mebane The writer is former Director of Energy Efficiency Department at ENEA, the Italian National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development In 2007 a MIT survey revealed that nearly 60% of Americans feel that “until we are sure that…
By Alan Rappeport and Ana Swanson – The New York Times WASHINGTON — Trade talks between China and the United States ended on Friday without a deal, just hours after President Trump renewed his trade war with China by raising tariffs on $200 billion worth of imports and…
By Jomo Kwame Sundaram and Anis Chowdhury (*) KUALA LUMPUR and SYDNEY, May 7 2019 (IPS) – Over the last four decades, growing concentration of market power in the hands of oligopolies, if not monopolies, has been greatly enabled by ostensibly neo-liberal reforms, worsening…
