By John Kampfner* – Politico The White House appears hell-bent on destroying not just economic and political paradigms, but a higher education system that really did make America great. Every empire, real or imagined, builds monuments to progress.
By Amalendu Misra* – The Conversation The president of Peru, Dina Boluarte, declared a state of emergency in the capital city, Lima, on March 18. The decree, which came amid a wave of violence, gives the police and military full control of the security situation there for a…
By Peter Bloom* – Common Dreams These tariffs may be framed as populist, but they function as pipelines of wealth transfer from the working and middle classes to the ultra-rich. Donald Trump’s latest barrage of tariffs—levied against imports from China, the EU, Mexico, Canada…
By Guilherme Schneider* – Modern Diplomacy For years, Latin America’s political balance rested on a familiar assumption: Brazil leads, Mexico follows. Brazil, with its continental scale, resource wealth, and international ambition, shaped the regional agenda—from BRICS summits…
By Setyo Budiantoro* – Asia Times The end of American dominance is a chance to build a world that no longer serves empire but rather serves life For decades, the world moved along a singular track of development laid down by the United States. As the geopolitical anchor and…
By Aitor Hernández-Morales, Giedrė Peseckytė and Pieter Haeck – Politico The EU’s body for scientific research, as well as local, regional and national governments, are mobilizing to poach top U.S. scholars. Donald Trump is trying to purge United States research institutions of…
By Anne Applebaum* – The Atlantic MAGA conservatives love Viktor Orbán. But he’s left his country corrupt, stagnant, and impoverished. Flashy hotels and upmarket restaurants now dominate the center of Budapest, a city once better known for its shabby facades. New monuments have…
By Tony Phillips* – Project Allende.org The MAGA Playbook; Buenos Aires MAGA can refer to Make American (USA) Great Again or Make (Argentina) Great Again but both nations have a long way to go to meet their plans of economic greatness and they’re economies are heading in the…
Sachs* – Common Dreams America’s trade deficit is a measure of the profligacy of America’s corporate ruling class, more specifically the result of chronically large budget deficits resulting from tax cuts for the rich combined with trillions of dollars wasted on useless wars…
