By Sonia Awale and Ramesh Kumar – The Nepali Times(*) KATHMANDU, Aug 3 2020 – The coronavirus pandemic was a respite for nature everywhere. The air was cleaner, trekking trails were pristine, the summit of Mt Everest was deserted, and… Continue Reading
By John Nichols*- The Nation Trump is losing. So he’s lying. The way to counter his lies is with facts and an action plan for easy, safe, and fair voting on November 3. On the morning of July 30, 96… Continue Reading
By Glauco Benigni* The hierarchical and exploitative structure of the feudal era seems to have reappeared today on the Internet of the digital era. Regardless of any constitution and workers’ statute, neither politics nor trade unions are intervening. It is… Continue Reading
By George Friedman* – Geopolitical Futures The British recently finished building two new aircraft carriers, the Queen Elizabeth and the Prince of Wales. Last week, Britain announced that one of the carriers would be based in the Pacific. Obviously, 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
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
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
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
Amy Goodman – Democracy Now! (*) As coronavirus infections worldwide approach 10 million, nearly half can be found in the two largest countries in the Americas: the United States and Brazil, which now has the worst infection rate in the… 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 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
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
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 Josh Dawsey* – The Washington Post President Trump asked Chinese President Xi Jinping to help him win the 2020 U.S. election, telling Xi during a summit dinner last year that increased agricultural purchases by Beijing from American farmers would… Continue Reading
By Khaleda Rahman – Newsweek “I got him” were the first words uttered by the police officer who shot Rayshard Brooks, according to Fulton County District Attorney Paul L. Howard Jr. The killing of Brooks, a 27-year-old black man, during… Continue Reading
By Ben Smith* – The New York Times Staff members’ demands helped end the tenure of James Bennet as Opinion editor of The New York Times. And they are generating tension at The Washington Post. Part of the story starts… Continue Reading
By Michael E. Miller – The Washington Post The teenager was standing in sight of the White House, a few yards from soldiers in an armored vehicle and a few feet from a line of Secret Service officers in riot… Continue Reading
By Naked Capitalism – Posted by Yves Smith Yves here. Regular readers of this site are likely to have encountered previous interviews with Heiner Flassbeck (*), one of the few German economists who has been a consistent and sound critic… Continue Reading
By Raymond Zhong and Russell Goldman (*) – The New York Times The move by the social media platform is likely to spur more tension with the White House and prompt criticism from the president’s supporters. Twitter said early Friday… Continue Reading
The Economist How the world’s most powerful country is handling covid-19 Contrary to what many Americans think, the death rate in America is about the same as in Europe America has passed a grim milestone: 100,000 deaths from a novel coronavirus… Continue Reading
