The Observer editorial It would be interesting to know what Nancy Pelosi thinks she achieved by visiting Taiwan last week. She may say her hosts were buoyed by this very visible show of support from a high-ranking American politician – and this is true, up to a point.
By Robin Abcarian* – Los Angeles Times Hate the headline? Blame Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban. He practically dictated it to me from the stage of the Conservative Political Action Conference in Dallas on Thursday after slamming the “leftist media.” “I can already see…
By Ishaan Tharoor* (with Sammy Westfall) – The Washington Post “The globalists can go to hell,” thundered Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban. “I have come to Texas.” He was delivering what was essentially the opening keynote of the four-day Conservative Political Action…
By Matthew Crain* – Boston Review Twenty-five years of neoliberal political economy are to blame for today’s regime of surveillance advertising, and only public policy can undo it The race to commercialize the Internet is over, and advertising is the big winner. This is…
Editorial – The Guardian The US policy of ‘strategic ambiguity’ might lack satisfying certainty but it has worked as a method for keeping the peace Defending the status quo can be a lonely position, especially in an age where the political tempo is set by populists and…
By Antonio Guterres Antonio Guterres, Secretary-General of the United Nations, in his address to the UN press corps while launching the third brief by the Global Crisis Response Group on Energy UNITED NATIONS, Aug 4 2022 (IPS) – The war in Ukraine continues to have a devastating…
By Simon Jenkins* – The Guardian It’s one thing to declare yourself ‘rather dead than red’, quite another to inflict that decision on the rest of us Arguments in the foothills of war are always the same. Those for war shout loudest and beat their chests, eager for tanks to…
By Michael Hudson* – Information Clearing House As in a Greek tragedy whose protagonist brings about precisely the fate that he has sought to avoid, the US/NATO confrontation with Russia in Ukraine is achieving just the opposite of America’s aim of preventing China, Russia and…
By Hameed Hakimi* The Guardian The death of the al-Qaida leader points to a potential shift in the complex dynamic between the US, Pakistan and the Taliban A decade after US Navy Seals killed Osama bin Laden in a special operation in Pakistan, Ayman al-Zawahiri was killed in a…
By Laurie Macfarlane* – openDemocracy While both Tory candidates look to the Iron Lady for inspiration, Labour is resurrecting the spirit of Tony Blair Boris Johnson’s time as prime minister has been defined by a series of contradictions. On the one hand, his approach to the…
