By Glauco Benigni* The hierarchical and exploitative structure of the feudal era seems to have reappeared today on the Internet of the digital era. Regardless of any constitution and workers’ statute, neither politics nor trade unions are intervening. It is… Continue Reading
By Democracy Now! World-renowned political dissident Noam Chomsky , linguist and author, is a laureate professor in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Arizona and professor emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he taught for more… Continue Reading
By Jomo Kwame Sundaram and Anis Chowdhury (*) SYDNEY and KUALA LUMPUR, Jul 28 2020 (IPS) – With uneven progress in containing contagion, worsened by the breakdown in multilateral cooperation due to mounting US-China tensions, recovery from the Covid-19 recessions… Continue Reading
By Chantal Da Silva* – Newsweek President Donald Trump lashed out at protesters in Portland on Monday, branding them “sick and deranged Anarchists & Agitators” after they launched a lawsuit against his administration, accusing the Department of Homeland Security (DHS)… Continue Reading
By Arun Gupta* – The Intercept Portland City Commissioner Jo Ann Hardesty agrees with other elected officials in Oregon who say federal police dispatched to the city by President Donald Trump are an “occupying army,” represent “a blatant abuse of power,”… Continue Reading
By Khaleda Rahman – Newsweek Black and Jewish activists say charges of anti-Semitism are being used to undermine the Black Lives Matter movement. Concerns about anti-Semitism in the Black community have been fueled by recent comments from Black celebrities, including… Continue Reading
by DEVNET JAPAN Devnet International is collaborating with private sector, other non-governmental organizations, and the Japanese Government in ensuring that the implementation of Japan’s Technical Intern Training Programme (TITP) fully incorporates the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights… Continue Reading
By Joseph Chamie* NEW YORK, Jul 2020 (IPS) – The world is in the midst of the Great Migration Clash, a bitter struggle between those who “want out” of their countries and those who want others to “keep out” of… Continue Reading
The Economist It is not yet clear where it will lead In the form it is known today, macroeconomics began in 1936 with the publication of John Maynard Keynes’s “The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money”. Its subsequent history can… Continue Reading
Michelle Goldberg’s opinion – The New York Times The month after Donald Trump’s inauguration, Yale historian Timothy Snyder published the bestselling book “On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons From the Twentieth Century.” It was part of a small flood of titles meant… Continue Reading
By Vijay Prashad* – Independent Media Institute Ahmed, who lives in Tripoli, Libya, texts me that the city is quieter than before. The army of General Khalifa Haftar—who controls large parts of eastern Libya—has withdrawn from the southern part of the… Continue Reading
By Sasha Abramsky* – The Nation As federal agents brutalize protesters in Portland, Trump threatens to unleash the same tactics across the country The election is barely 100 days away, and the Signal is that Trump—trailing Biden by large margins… Continue Reading
By George Friedman* – Geopolitical Futures The British recently finished building two new aircraft carriers, the Queen Elizabeth and the Prince of Wales. Last week, Britain announced that one of the carriers would be based in the Pacific. Obviously, the… Continue Reading
Brand new partnership leads to podcast series on global issues. Last week’s first episode of a podcast series co-produced by Othernews and TheAnalisys.News was a blast! Othernews officially started a partnership with TheAnalisys.News, a US/Canadian online magazine that aims “to carry on the… Continue Reading
By Yanis Varoufakis* While the media are reporting the news of the deadlocked EU Summit negotiations over the so-called ‘Recovery Fund’, an eerie silence prevails regarding the Elephant in the Room: The huge wave of austerity the Eurozone is sleepwalking… Continue Reading
By Bill Powell – Newsweek Why would somebody 37 years old, with no diplomatic experience, take on the job of making peace in the Mideast? “My father-in-law asked me to do it,” Jared Kushner says. Never mind that Henry Kissinger, James Baker… Continue Reading
By Glauco Benigni* They are called Vanguard, Black Rock and State Street Global Advisor and they are the world’s 3 largest mutual funds. They are also known as asset managers or investment funds, operated by professional experts who collect “fresh”… Continue Reading
By Roy Morrison* – EcoCivilization The death of John Lewis is a reminder that power concedes nothing… Continue Reading
By Sonali Kolhatkar* – Independent Media Institute America’s rightward march culminating in Trump’s presidency has brought us to this moment where we are dying from a virus that other nations have managed to control. When schoolchildren across the United States… Continue Reading
Posted by Yves Smith – Naked Capitalism Yves here. We’re pleased to be presenting a post from a new site, RGK, which stands for “Reviving Growth Keynesianism”. It’s mission, as its proprietor Nicholas Johnson, explains, is to “republish and circulate… Continue Reading
