The National Interest Viewpoint of Mushahid Hussain, Chairman of the Senate of Pakistan’s Defence Committee Five fundamentals are pointers to the United States embarking on an unwinnable Sisyphean quest that will end up hurting its interests more than stopping China’s rise in…
Kathleen Belew, David Hogg, Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz (*) – Boston Review The strategy of “leadership resistance” has allowed white power activists to disguise the extent of their organizing. But their desperation to prevent a public reckoning with the country’s racist…
By Pedro Marques, Paul Tang and Aurore Lalucq (*) – POLITICO Unanimity in tax policy is detrimental to the principles that are supposed to underpin Europe’s social model Following a global agreement on a minimum tax for multinational corporations, the deal’s European…
By Michael Hudson* – Naked Capitalism The greatest challenge facing societies has always been how to conduct trade and credit without letting merchants and creditors make money by exploiting their customers and debtors. All antiquity recognized that the drive to acquire money is…
By Urariano Mota* – CounterPunch The Colombian journalist María Jimena Duzán published in El País, on 07.07.2022, an excellent article about Vargas Llosa. Under the title “Vargas Llosa, el equivocado eres tú”, she went straight to the point: “The writer and literature Nobel…
By Simon Tisdall* -The Observer A critical showdown is looming with Russia and China, but public confidence and belief in democratic politicians and institutions are waning Henry Kissinger has said present-day western leaders do not bear comparison to their ‘strong’ postwar…
EDITORIAL, by Jan Oberg– TRANSCEND Media Service Let’s look at NATO’s reaction to Russia’s ill-considered and international law-violating military action in Ukraine. From a conflict-analytical point of view, it is reasonable to say that Russia is responsible for the war but that…
Masahiro Tauchi, Advisor, DEVNET JAPAN Former Ambassador of Japan to Norway Four months have passed since Russia launched its military invasion of Ukraine, and Russian and Ukrainian forces have been engaged in a war of attrition with heavy mutual losses in eastern Ukraine and…
By Pavan Kulkarni / Peoples Dispatch Massacre of African Refugees in Spanish Colonial Enclave of Melilla Just Ahead of NATO’s Madrid Summit, A Mere Coincidence? Spain is seeking NATO protection for Melilla, where the massacre occurred, and Ceuta, its other colonial enclave on…
By Clár Ní Chonghaile* -The New European Emmanuel Macron’s failure at parliamentary polls in June will limit his role on the international stage. Is there anyone out there who could replace him as Europe’s leading political visionary?
