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The Gamers’ Uprising Against Wall Street Has Deep Populist Roots

By Ellen Brown* – Web of Debt, Blog Wall Street may own the country, as Kansas populist leader Mary Elizabeth Lease once declared, but a new generation of “retail” stock market traders is fighting back. A short squeeze frenzy driven… Continue Reading →

Economy / Finance, Globalization, Neo-liberalism, Populism

How geopolitics is likely to shape up post-Trump

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 →

Economy / Finance, Globalization, Politics

2020: A Yet More Devastating Year Closes With at Least Some Signs of Hope

By Farhana Haque Rahman* ROME, Dec 23 2020 (IPS) – Despite its grim record of multiple natural disasters and a deepening climate crisis, one could be forgiven for looking back on 2019 with a degree of nostalgia. There is no… Continue Reading →

Civil Society, Democracy, Environment, Globalization, Information & Communication, International Cooperation

Artificial Intelligence has changed our world

By Nadia Batok* – Wall Street International AI has gone from a science-fiction dream to a critical part of our everyday lives Artificial Intelligence has changed our world Success in creating effective AI, could be the biggest event in the… Continue Reading →

Digital Age, Globalization, Information & Communication, Science and technology

Why Biden Will Keep the U.S.-Imposed Cold War Rolling

By Vijay Prashad* – Globetrotter, Independent Media Institute   Much will certainly change in the world of U.S. foreign policy when Joe Biden enters the White House. There will be a more measured tone, and less reliance upon Twitter to announce U.S.… Continue Reading →

Environment, Globalization, History, Human Rights, Neo-liberalism

Why 2020 Was the ‘Precarity Election’

By Albena Azmanova and Marshall Auerback (*) – Independent Media Institute Neither political party has truly addressed the issue of economic security, which is why the country remains a house divided against itself While Joe Biden will be America’s next… Continue Reading →

Economy / Finance, Elections, Globalization, Radical extremism

Negationism, gattopardism and transitionism

By Boaventura de Sousa Santos* The new coronavirus pandemic has called into question many of the political certitudes that seemed to have been consolidated over the past forty years, especially in what is known as the global North. The main… Continue Reading →

Civil rights, Development, Economy / Finance, Globalization, Health

Economists on the Run

By Michael Hirsh* – Foreign Policy Paul Krugman has never suffered fools gladly. The Nobel Prize-winning economist rose to international fame—and a coveted space on the New York Times op-ed page—by lacerating his intellectual opponents in the most withering way. In a series… Continue Reading →

Economy / Finance, Globalization, Neo-liberalism, Politics

Why Bitcoin Is Not a Socialist’s Ally – Reply to Ben Arc

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… Continue Reading →

Economy / Finance, Globalization

Every Step the EU Takes Toward Financial Unity Sows New Seeds of Its Potential Collapse

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… Continue Reading →

Economy / Finance, Globalization, Health, International Cooperation

How objectivity in journalism became a matter of opinion

The Economist In America, political and commercial strains have led to questions about its value and meaning Have you heard the news? It’s about the news. As correspondents covered the widespread protests on the streets of America in recent months, many… Continue Reading →

Globalization, Information & Communication, Neo-liberalism, Politics

Donald Trump, Working Class Hero?

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 →

Economy / Finance, Globalization, Populism

Wheels on fire. The Thin Edge: Is the Donald Trump regime imploding?

By Ruchir Joshi – Editor,  Telegraph of India Watching the wheels come off an inept, conceited person in power is always satisfying. However, each time we witness such a moment, the satisfaction is tempered by the following question: how much… Continue Reading →

authoritarianism, Globalization, Human Rights, Neo-liberalism, Politics, xenofobia

Meet BlackRock, the New Great Vampire Squid

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 →

Economy / Finance, Globalization, Neo-liberalism

The new world disorder

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 →

Economy / Finance, Globalization, Neo-liberalism

The Guardian view on a green new deal: save jobs and the planet

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 →

Economy / Finance, Environment, Globalization, Health, Inequality and Social Justice, International Cooperation

Europe Wobbles

By Bill Blain* – The Morning Porridge “Let us sing more cheerful songs, more songs full of joy!” I am wondering if my FT App is broken? I opened it this morning and the front pages of the Pink Un… Continue Reading →

Economy / Finance, Globalization, Neo-liberalism, Politics

The Worst Economic Collapse Ever?

by Tyler Durden – ZEROHEDGE (*) Authored by Tuomas Malinen (**)  via GnSEconomics.com Country after country has reported extremely dark economic numbers. The gigantic jobless claims, 6.6 million from the U.S. last week, are just the tip of the iceberg.… Continue Reading →

Economy / Finance, Globalization, Health, Neo-liberalism

The nation-state strikes back

By Jan Zielonka* -Social Europe (London) While initial responses to the coronavirus crisis have favoured national sovereignty and public authority, effective solutions will only emerge from a complex network of multi-level governance. From Madrid to Paris, Berlin to Warsaw, the… Continue Reading →

Civil Society, Democracy, Globalization, Politics

Bill Gates’s Charity Paradox

By Tim Schwab* – The Nation Bill Gates Gives to the Rich (Including Himself). His renowned charitable activities seem to serve mainly private interests, namely his own. A Nation investigation illustrates the moral hazards surrounding the Gates Foundation’s $50 billion charitable enterprise.… Continue Reading →

Digital Age, Economy / Finance, Globalization, Information & Communication, Neo-liberalism

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