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Breaking News: Chinese, Iranian and Indian Warships Are Now in the Red Sea, Gulf of Aden

As the Red Sea has become a new hot spot, more countries are sending warships to prevent mischief…potentially not just from the Houthis.

World Bank Enables Private Capture of Profits, Public Resources

The World Bank insists on private finance or economic recovery but does little to ensure profit-hungry commercial finance serves the public

This Generation’s Problem: Climate Chaos

Climate-change-induced extreme events look more and more imminent.

As Russia Signals It Can Achieve Maximalist Aims in Ukraine, How Would Russia Manage Kiev and Western Ukraine?

Russia is presumably thinking hard about not just how to conclude the war in Ukraine, but what happens the morning after.

Yanis Varoufakis: Europe’s 15-Year Slump

The survival of the euro has come at the cost of Europe’s permanent stagnation and continuing fragmentation

Rich Nations, IMF Deepen World Stagnation

With the Fed raising interest rates, IMF surcharges worsen debt distress in the global South, increasing poverty worldwide.

Ukraine Flails as Proxy/Coalition War Scheme Comes Apart

How the way the West conducted a novel coalition war in Ukraine looks to have made a bad situation worse.

Big Meat and Dairy Delegates Triple at COP28

Big Ag fights back at COP28

Is China’s Economy Collapsing? Economic War! Michael Hudson & Richard D. Wolff

A wide-ranging talk, using Western bashing of China’s economy as a point of departure.

Elections Won’t Fix What Ails the West

e body politic in the West is not at all healthy. Why is there so much denial about that?

EU and US Ukraine Funding Even More in Doubt as War Effort Falters

Things are going from bad to worse for Ukraine, and at an accelerating pace too.

NATO/West or Global Majority? Unipolar Destruction or Multipolar Development? The World Must Choose

Yves here. While there is a lot of merit in the latest discussion between Radhika Desai and Micheal Hudson on their favorite topic of mutlipolarity, I feel compelled to correct some imprecisions. The video depicts the “German government” as having “raised” the debt brake but then “not being allowed” with no depiction of agency, to […]