By The Editorial Board* – The New York Times Paid sick leave could slow the spread of the disease and its impact on the economy The Federal Reserve did what it could Tuesday to offset the growing economic impact of the coronavirus by announcing a supersize reduction in its…
By Robert Jago* – The Nation When pipeline protesters shut down Canada’s railways, the prime minister stopped pretending to care about reconciliation. As we speak, Canadian paramilitary and police forces are occupying parts of the sovereign territories of the indigenous…
By Vijay Prashad* – Independent Media Institute At Obock, Djibouti, 2,000 migrants gather each day along the waters of the Gulf of Aden; they look for boats to get them to Yemen. Over the past two years, more migrants from Africa have used the “Eastern Route”…
By Mukul Kesavan* – The Guardian The riots have been driven by a ruling party intent on painting its largely peaceful opponents as seditious sectarians Since Sunday violent mobs in north-east Delhi have killed 21 people including a police constable, injured hundreds of others…
By Anis Chowdhury and Jomo Kwame Sundaram* SYDNEY and KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 2020 (IPS) – Meeting the President of the Republic of Korea in September 2019, President Donald J Trump bragged that the “US economy is the envy of the world”. Trump reiterated such claims in his State…
By Jason Stanley* – The Guardian The two strongmen favour immigration and citizenship policies designed to demonise minority groups The US president, Donald Trump, has delighted a stadium of 125,000 cheering Indians in Gujarat by declaring: “America loves India. America respects…
Reed Hundt* – Boston Review Ben Bernanke, Timothy Geithner, and Henry Paulson still have not reckoned with the failures of neoliberal planning in the wake of the financial crisis More than a decade after the financial crises of 2008, the shortcomings of the government’s response…
Editorial Boris Johnson saw immigration as the driver of Brexit, and has produced a policy that taps into questions about the nature of work The government’s proposed immigration reforms represent perhaps the biggest change to British life since the Maastricht treaty almost…
By Hall Gardner* – Wall Street International Magazine Countdown to World War Trump IV I. Now that he possesses only a small kitchen cabinet full of “yes men” to advise him, it should not have been surprising that President Trump opted for the drone assassination of Iraqi…
By Anis Chowdhury and Jomo Kwame Sundaram (*) SYDNEY and KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 18 2020 (IPS) – In an annual ritual early in the year, most major economic organizations have released forecasts for the global economy in 2020. Incredibly, almost as a reminder of where financial…
