Klare* -TomDispatch China, India, and the Emerging New World Order Not so long ago, political analysts were speaking of the “G-2” — that is, of a potential working alliance between the United States and China aimed at managing global problems for their mutual benefit. Such a…
By Mark Malloch-Brown * – POLITICO Without fixing the debt and poverty crisis, we won’t even get close to fixing the global climate crisis, which threatens us all. If the richest countries in the world can’t find the will to face the global debt crisis, what are the chances…
By Juan Cole* – TomDispatch. A photo Beijing released on March 6th of Chinese President Xi Jinping delivered a seismic shock in Washington. There was the Secretary-General of the Chinese Communist Party standing between Ali Shamkhani, the secretary of Iran’s National…
By Ellen Brown* – ScheerPost Short sellers have made a killing in the recent banking crisis, scalping $14.3 billion from bank stock owners just in March of this year. Short sellers “borrow” stock they don’t own and immediately sell it, driving the price down. Then they buy…
By Maurice Stierl* – Al Jazeera Delays in rescuing people at sea aren’t a European policy failure. They are a deliberate, cruel strategy When boats with refugees are at risk of capsizing in the Mediterranean Sea, the speed of rescue operations is essential.
Jose Caballero* – The Conversation The unwillingness of some countries to back the west’s position on Ukraine is a wake-up call. Western leaders must now determine what they can offer to powerful states including Brazil, India and South Africa to keep them onside.
By Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. Davies (*) – Codepink On May 16, 2023, The New York Times published a full-page advertisement signed by 15 U.S. national security experts about the war in Ukraine.
By Michael Brenner* All political rhetoric pivots around key words or phrases that resonate with an audience and are evocative of deep-seated images and symbols. Among Americans the most potent are democracy and freedom. They are sprinkled liberally in…
By Camilo Pérez-Bustillo* -Truthout So Are Biden’s New Border Policies. Biden’s decision to utilize and repackage rather than reject Trump’s amped-up deportation apparatus is no surprise.
Belén Fernández* – Al Jazeera America’s relentless persecution of the WikiLeaks founder is threatening the freedom of thought globally. Imagine, for a moment, that the government of Cuba was demanding the extradition of an Australian publisher in the United Kingdom for exposing…
