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…
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 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…
By Fernando Ayala * – Wall Street International Magazine What only wars were able to do… so far The modern international order was born with the so-called Peace of Westphalia in 1648 that ended the 30-year war in Europe and gave rise to the concept of the sovereign State we…
By Shannon Tiezzi* – The Diplomat Xi’s receptions in Italy and France were markedly different. So were the benefits for the hosts – but not in the way you’d expect.
By Roberto Savio* Rome, Feb., 2019 – I have been a member of the first international party: the Transnational Radical Party, founded in 1956 by Marco Pannella and Emma Bonino. Then in 1988, I was a wetness of the large protest, in Berlin West, against the meeting of the…
By David Brennan – Newsweek Global wealth inequality is continuing to reward a handful of billionaires at the expense of the world’s poorest people, a new report has warned On its “Public Good or Private Wealth” report, development charity Oxfam noted that the 26 richest…
By Roberto Savio* ROME – After Teresa May’s defeat in the British parliament on January 15, it is clear that a new spectre is haunting Europe. It is no longer the spectre of communism, which opens Marx’s Manifesto of 1848; it is the spectre of the failure of neoliberal…
By Phillip Orchard – Geopolitical Futures The new trade agreement has the same goals as its predecessor – but it’s missing one key member The Trans-Pacific Partnership may have life in it yet. On his first day in office, nearly two years ago, U.S.
Paul Raskin* We are bound together on a precarious passage to a land unknown and unnamed. Even a stray dog, as Hannah Arendt once noted, has better odds of surviving when given a name. Likewise, the global future—the place we are going—needs an identity to encourage us to own…
