EDITORIAL, by Johan Galtung* – TRANSCEND Media Service Starting with EU at 60, making small states (Luxembourg!) big by being members of something bigger, but making bigger, even imperial, states smaller by being “members”. The Netherlands is small: Wilders suffered a…
Paul Krugman – The New York Times During the campaign, Donald Trump talked loudly and often about how he was going to renegotiate America’s “horrible trade deals,” bringing back millions of good jobs. So far, however, nothing has happened. Not only is Trumpist trade policy —…
Balogh* – lobelog.com The recent efforts to transform Sebastian Gorka from a far-right Hungarian politician into an anti-Nazi liberal fighting against anti-Semitism can be added to the growing catalogue of alternative facts brought to us by the Trump administration and its…
The Economist DONALD TRUMP won the White House on the promise that government is easy. Unlike his Democratic opponent, whose career had been devoted to politics, Mr Trump stood as a businessman who could Get Things Done.
Posted by Yves Smith – Naked Capitalism Cross posted from Michael Hudson’s website The Next System Project’s Adam Simpson sat down with renowned economist and economic historian Michael Hudson to discuss economic deceptions old and new. Michael Hudson is Distinguished Research…
By George Friedman – Daily Digests President Donald Trump’s ability to make changes depends on whether his support rises or falls. Editor’s note: This week, in light of the Republican withdrawal of a bill that would have repealed and replaced the Affordable Care Act…
By Susan Matthews* – Slate His move to roll back regulations will harm our health and won’t grow the economy. Donald Trump will sign another executive order on Tuesday, this one focused on unraveling the Clean Power Plan, rolling back environmental regulations, and eliminating…
Prabhat Patnaik* – Calcutta Telegraph – The world economy’s crisis can be met in only two ways Donald Trump’s recipe for reviving employment in the American economy is to impose restrictions on imports from other countries. If at the same time he had taken steps to increase the…
by Eldar Mamedov- lobelog.com As the Trump administration appears to be taking a tougher line on Iran and the U.S. Congress ponders new hostile actions against the country, several members of the European Parliament visited Tehran in mid-March.
Jane Mayer – The New Yorker How Robert Mercer exploited America’s populist insurgency. Last month, when President Donald Trump toured a Boeing aircraft plant in North Charleston, South Carolina, he saw a familiar face in the crowd that greeted him: Patrick Caddell, a former…
