Introduction, by Tom Engelhardt * Who even remembers when President Bush — no, not George W. but his father! — exclaimed, “By God, we’ve kicked the Vietnam Syndrome!” That was in the wake of Operation Desert Storm (aka the First Gulf War of 1991) and it was indeed true that…
By Yanis Varoufakis * – Project Syndicate When eurozone finance ministers recently issued a joint paean to the single currency on the occasion of the twentieth anniversary of the introduction of euro banknotes and coins, something remarkable happened: Nothing. No one…
Edward Paice* – The Guardian Africa’s unprecedented population growth will impact geopolitics, global trade, migration and almost every aspect of life. It’s time for a reimagining of the continent ‘Africa’s demography will be one of the principal determinants of whether the…
By Owen Jones* – The Guardian For seven years, the Yemeni people have been pummelled with Saudi bombs, many from Britain. Yet Westminster is silent This is a far greater scandal than the parties in Downing Street. In a just world, it would prove the downfall of our prime…
By Vijay Prashad* – Globetrotter, Independent Media Institute In November 2020, the Moroccan government sent its military to the Guerguerat area, a buffer zone between the territory claimed by the Kingdom of Morocco and the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic…
By Hall Gardner* – Wall Street International Magazine Is the world entering into a new Cold War? It is even more dangerous I will argue today1 that Homo Geopoliticus has entered a new period of global rivalry more like the periods before World War I and II than…
By Eleanor Davey* – Boston Review Twenty years of cruel anti-immigrant policy have left thousands of asylum seekers in limbo, detained in offshore prisons or in mainland commercial hotels. Top-ranked tennis player Novak Djokovic’s visa woes in Australia have captured…
By Lauren Gambino* – The Guardian Puzzle of Biden’s unpopularity has some pieces within his control and some not, experts say, as Covid casts a shadow over his first year in office Joe Biden ends his first year in office at a particularly bleak moment for a US president who…
By Alejandro Kirk* The myth that in Chile the military is basically disciplined, professional, non-deliberative and respectful of the democratic decisions of the people seems to be floating again in the country, in relation to the tasks of the Constitutional Convention convened…
By Boaventura de Sousa Santos* The difficult challenges facing today’s world – the climate crisis, the COVID-19 pandemic, the escalating Cold War, the risk of a nuclear conflict, the increase in human rights violations and the exponential rise in the number of refugees and…
