By Ellen Brown* – Truthdig What’s going on in the repo market? Rates on repurchase (“repo”) agreements should be about 2%, in line with the Federal Reserve funds rate.
By Editorial Board – The Washington Post SAUDI CROWN Prince Mohammed bin Salman appears confident he has overcome the international backlash that followed the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi 13 months ago. Last week, the annual investment conference the kingdom…
By Shaun Walker* – The Guardian The philanthropist who has spent billions promoting democracy talks populism, Trump and powerful enemies Around three decades ago, George Soros was introduced to a brash property magnate over dinner at a country house in the Catskills…
By Selam Gebrekidan, Matt Apuzzo(*) and Benjamin Novak – The New York Times The European Union spends $65 billion a year subsidizing agriculture. But a chunk of that money emboldens strongmen, enriches politicians and finances corrupt dealing. CSAKVAR, Hungary — Under…
By Hazel Henderson* From the VC “masters of the universe” on Sand Hill Road and Y Combinator to the social media FAANG monopolists to the adolescent male libertarian bros with their internet startups — all share the fundamentalist faith in electricity. Rarely did…
Harrison Stetler* – The Nation As extremist ideas enter the mainstream, “clash of civilizations” rhetoric is crowding out more nuanced approaches to the very real problem of terrorism “The combined forces of the state will not be able to overcome the Islamist hydra,”…
David Miliband and Luis Alberto Moreno (*) – Newsweek By the end of 2019, more than 40 million people from Latin America and the Caribbean will be living outside their countries of birth according to estimates from the United Nations, comprising a rapidly rising share of the…
By Audrey Wilson – Foreign Policy Chile Move Jeopardizes U.n. Climate Summit President Sebastián Piñera’s decision to back out of hosting the U.n. COP25 summit may aggravate tensions with protesters in Santiago Grappling with mass protests, Chilean President Sebastián Piñera…
By George Friedman* – Geopolitical Futures The United States is in the process of shifting a core dimension of its strategic doctrine. In the past, the U.S. resorted to the use of force to address international threats.
James Carroll* – TomDispatch. What can the fall of the Berlin Wall teach us at a time when democracy is in retreat, predatory capitalism is on the rise, and a new arms race is ramping up?
