Sachs* – New World Economy The greatest enemy of economic development is war. If the world slips further into global conflict, our economic hopes and our very survival could go up in flames.
By David Smith* – The Guardian Joe Biden and members of Congress are increasingly long in the tooth – and more and more out of step with a much younger US public It is the year of the octogenarian. American TV viewers can find Patrick Stewart, 82, boldly going in a new series of…
By Jonathan Guyer*- VOX Conflict is avoidable, but cooperation is scant The balloon episode and the ensuing UFO drama have captured America’s attention perhaps because it’s such a caricature of the new Cold War we’re barreling toward. The image of a fighter jet shooting down a…
Bhadrakumar* – Indian Punchline The meeting of the defence ministers of the Pentagon’s Ukraine Defence Contact Group in the “Ramstein” format in Brussels on January 14 failed to make any major announcement on the supply of offensive weapons to Kiev. But the US…
By Nadia Batok* – MEER Or is there a new world war on the horizon? When it comes to weapons it seems all red lines have been crossed. Washington red lines have shifted again and again, since the February 2022 Russian special operation in Ukraine.
By Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou* – Boston Review Contemporary life has been deeply molded by financialization. But the speculative imagination can also be a tool for building a more just world. The cautious merchant and the keen manufacturer were equally unable to resist the…
By Karlos Zurutuza ROME, Feb 2023 (IPS) – Geology explains the terrible earthquake that shook Turkey and Syria on February 6 with academic coldness: the Arabian, Eurasian and African plates pressure the Anatolian plate. On the surface, geopolitics resorts to concepts like…
By Jeet Heer*- The Nation You can buy an American president—just as long as your country is a putative ally Since Donald Trump’s noisy exit from the presidency in January 2021, the former commander in chief and his family have made billions of dollars in business deals with…
by Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. Davies(*) – CODEPINK In a recent column, military analyst William Astore wrote, “[Congressman] George Santos is a symptom of a much larger disease: a lack of honor, a lack of shame, in America. Honor, truth, integrity, simply don’t seem to…
By Chris Hedges* – The Chris Hedges Report / Consortium News Chris Hedges talks to Matt Taibbi, who revealed that the source of many claims of Trump-era Russian disinformation was itself a disinformation operation concocted by former U.S. intelligence officials. Shortly after…
