Economy / Finance

Techno-Feudalism Is Taking Over

Posted by Yves Smith – Naked Capitalism Yves here. Yanis Varoufakis puts a name, techno-feudalism, on the widespread shifts in economic power relationships.

Health

Europe has created a two-tier vaccination system that will hit poorer countries

By Nesrine Malik* – The Guardian Barring entry to the EU for travellers given India-produced AstraZeneca will separate families and harm trade If you are in the UK and have received the AstraZeneca jab, you may have been checking your batch number in the past few days to see if…

Armed conflicts

An All-American Horror Story

By Tom Engelhardt* –  TomDispatch Three-Quarters of a Century of Nuclear Follies — And That’s Just Where to Begin Yes, once upon a time I regularly absorbed science fiction and imagined futures of wonder, but mainly of horror. What else could you think, if you read H.G.

Civil rights

U.S. Government's Witness Against Assange Admits He Lied

By Thomas Neuburger* – God`Spies This is the state we defend when we defend the state. It looks like the U.S. government’s case against Julian Assange is falling apart. One of its most important witnesses has now confessed to lying. Via the late Robert Parry’s site, Consortium…

Civil rights

Time to rethink our technology choices!

By Hazel Henderson* – Wall Street International Magazine  Green investing goes mainstream globally Remember the bumper sticker: Technology is the answer! But what is the question?

Diplomacy

The Thucydides Trap and the Rise and Fall of Great Powers

By  Jacek Bartosiak * -Geopolitical Futures A theory used to explain the Peloponnesian War can also be applied to the growing tensions between the U.S. and China Roughly 2,400 years ago, Thucydides, a Greek historian and author of “History of the Peloponnesian War,”…

Civil rights

Water: A Matter of Survival in the World of Pandemics

By Guillaume Baggio, Manzoor Qadir and Vladimir Smakhtin (*) HAMILTON, Ontario, Canada, Jul 1 2021 (IPS) – The COVID-19 pandemic has undeniably amplified the existing vulnerabilities of billions of people worldwide. Marginalized communities in developing countries were excluded…