By George Friedman* – Geopolitical Futures Russian President Vladimir Putin described the collapse of the Soviet Union as the greatest geopolitical catastrophe in history. Though it may not be true of all of history, it is certainly true of modern Russian history, because it…
By Boaventura de Sousa Santos* The statements by the US ambassador in his interview to the weekly Expresso on 26 September are offensive to the Portuguese people and a violation of diplomatic codes of conduct. He threatened that the US would no longer regard Portugal as an ally…
By Tim Schwab* – The Nation The billionaire’s pandemic investments, like much of his work, remain a secret. In the early days of the pandemic, President Trump made headlines when he reportedly tried to secure rights to a vaccine from German developer CureVac…
By Hazel Henderson* – Ethical Markets Media We humans have evolved a new form of governance beyond our machine age democracies: toward radical still unruly participatory mediocracies in our Information Age, as I first described in 1964 and in “Mediocracies and Their…
Riccardo Petrella* The United States of Trump tried everything to derail the 75th UN General Assembly and thus jeopardise the future of the United Nations. The president of China, XI Jinping, by unexpectedly declaring on 24 September that his country had…
By Vijay Prashad and John Ross (*) – Independent Media Institute U.S. President Donald Trump—supported by most of the U.S. establishment—deepened the U.S. government’s assault on the Chinese economy.
By Jill Filipovic* – The Guardian As a black woman on the national stage, she knew she had to walk a thread-thin line. She did so perfectly There was no real contest in the vice-presidential debate between Kamala Harris and Mike Pence.
The Economist The president is back after being hospitalised with the virus. But the pandemic may weaken the Republicans’ push to confirm Amy Coney Barrett PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP returned to the White House in triumphant mood on the evening of October 5th.
Nadia Batok* The arms race is increasingly becoming a world-wide phenomenon, with spending by developing countries having increased over the last eight years from about seven billion dollars to about 45 billion dollars. For years the world has been diverting annually about 350…
By Ariel Dorfman* – The Atlantic One tiny mark on a ballot, and then one more, and then yet another forged a better, luminous collective future in a not so distant land. Can you recognize this country?
