By Anis Chowdhury/Jomo Kwame Sundaram (*) SYDNEY and KUALA LUMPUR, Apr 2022 (IPS) – The world is sailing into a perfect storm as key leaders seem intent on threatening more war, albeit while proclaiming the noblest of intentions. By doing so, they block international…
By Nolan Higdon* – Globetrotter, Independent Media Institute There is a growing psychosis sweeping the U.S. around the Russian bombardment of Ukraine, and it is being triggered by the legacy news media. The steady stream of biased, often erroneous or incomplete…
By Ellen Brown* – ScheerPost No country has successfully challenged the U.S. dollar’s global hegemony—until now. How did this happen and what will it mean?
Robert Tait* and Flora Garamvolgyi – The Guardian Rightwinger and Putin ally aims dig at Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelenskiy after Fidesz party claims another super majority Viktor Orbán has won a fourth successive term as Hungary’s prime minister, capping a campaign…
By Hazel Henderson* – Ethical Markets Media For over fifty years, industrial societies’ policies in all sectors have been guided by economic forecasting and all the macroeconomic statistics and indicators from GDP to inflation, debt, deficits, unemployment — all measured by…
By Adam Ramsay* – openDemocracy Two elections mark two crucial opportunities to halt Europe’s drift towards authoritarianism. But war in Ukraine adds an extra obstacle “War in Ukraine is really bad for this election,” says Biljana Stojković, speaking to me from Vranje in the…
By Thalif Deen* UNITED NATIONS, Apr 1 2022 (IPS) – When Madeleine Albright was nominated to be the first female US Secretary of State back in 1997, some apparently questioned whether “a woman could go toe-to-toe with world leaders”. “Madeleine quickly quashed those…
By William M. Arkin* – Newsweek Russia’s armed forces are reaching a state of exhaustion, stalemated on the battlefield and unable to make additional gains, while Ukraine is slowly pushing them back, continuing to inflict destruction on the invaders.
By Baher Kamal* MADRID, Mar 2022 (IPS) – While several politicians -and media– have been viewing the ongoing armed conflict in South Sudan as a “civil war” between rival ethnic groups, so nothing to worry about, there are some key facts that should be considered for the…
By Jim Lobe* – Responsible Statecraft It was odd that Blinken chose to meet with Middle East autocrats in Israel at the same time Biden was marshaling the forces of the ‘rules based order.’ If Secretary of State Antony Blinken wanted to highlight the hypocrisy that so many…
