By Amy Goodman (*) – Democracy Now! GUESTS : Phyllis Bennis, author and fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies.
José Miguel Amiune* War accelerates the decline of the dollar as the world’s sole currency Dear reader, the title and subtitle of this article may surprise you, alarm you, or make it difficult for you to see the connection between the war, the decline of the dollar and China’s…
Sachs * – The New World Economy The key to economic development and ending poverty is investment. Nations achieve prosperity by investing in four priorities. Most important is investing in people, through quality education and health care. The next…
By Dan Collyns* – Global development Hundreds, mostly Venezuelans, hope to cross into Peru to flee harsh immigration protocols and growing xenophobia in Chile The wind sweeping in from the Pacific Ocean buffets makeshift tents made of blankets and scraps of fabric, as sheltering…
Goodman* – counterpunch.org. U.S. diplomats have been unsuccessful in recruiting key countries in the Global South, particularly India and Brazil, to support Ukraine in its war with Russia. Nations of the Global South don’t want to be part of the Cold War between the…
Prabir Purkayastha* – Newsclick and Globetrotter. We celebrate World Press Freedom Day in May as a reminder that the role of news organizations is to speak truth to power.
By Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. Davies (*) – Codepink In his 1987 book, The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers, historian Paul Kennedy reassured Americans that the decline the United States was facing after a century of international dominance was “relative and not absolute, and…
Editorial – The Guardian Sports stars and business people are embracing the kingdom again, but human rights abuses continue four years after Jamal Khashoggi’s murder The journalist Jamal Khashoggi was murdered and dismembered in the Saudi Arabian consulate in Istanbul in October…
By Wolfgang Streeck*- Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies Italians, it is said, are given to a perspective on politics that they call dietrismo. Dietro means behind, and dietrismo means a habitualized conviction that what you see is designed to hide what you get, by…
Bhadrakumar* – Asia Times Modi government’s ‘de-ideologized’ foreign policy irks US while seeking larger strategic and security role in a new multipolar order Most relationships undergo a transition with the passage of time from appreciation of each other to a “state of having,”…
