By Benjamin Wallace-Wells* – The New Yorker I lived in Baltimore during the Freddie Gray protests in April, 2015. My apartment was in a brownstone next to a small park in a pretty neighborhood called Bolton Hill, which sits on the border between downtown and the West Baltimore…
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 of Eurozone arrangements, and in…
By Adam Taylor* – The Washington Post China’s ongoing border clash with India may seem remote, but it has global impact. Reports say thousands of troops moved into the disputed area 14,000 feet up in the Himalayas after skirmishes broke out on May 5 near Pangong Lake in Ladakh…
By Democracy Now! Guests : Michael Baker, professor of public health at the University of Otago in Wellington, New Zealand.
By Vijay Prashad*) – Independent Media Institute On March 20, just after the World Health Organization (WHO) declared a global pandemic on March 11, the U.S. National Security Council (NSC) sent a cable to U.S.
By Ellen Brown* – Common Dreams Insolvent Wall Street banks have been quietly bailed out again. Banks made risk-free by the government should be public utilities. When the Dodd Frank Act was passed in 2010, President Obama triumphantly declared, “No more bailouts!” But…
Analysis|Stanly Johny* – The Hindi Earlier this month, the U.S. imposed visa restrictions on the Chinese journalists working in the country, limiting their work period to 90 days Relations between the U.S. and China plunged to a nadir in recent weeks. On May 15, President Donald…
The Economist The flow of people, trade and capital will be slowed Even before the pandemic, globalisation was in trouble. The open system of trade that had dominated the world economy for decades had been damaged by the financial crash and the Sino-American trade war.
By Nanjala Nyabola* – The Nation If reporting doesn’t improve, the creativity and agency of swaths of humanity will be lost to history As Covid-19 races its way across Africa, there are two stories happening at once. The first is of governments using their armies and militarized…
By George Friedman* – Geopolitical Futures Medical research is always involved in the important work of understanding disease and the human body. It is now at the center of a global crisis whose evolution can define the international system, the internal systems of nation-states…
