WTO 12th Ministerial Conference Continues Sorry Record of Anti-Worker, Anti-Developing Economy Policies
After pretenses that it might be more solicitous towards people, as opposed to big companies, the WTO followed the money masters.
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Michael Hudson Talks About Almost Everything with Jonathan Brown
Another blockbuster interview with Michael Hudson.
Read more...Boris Johnson’s Hypocrisy on the Northern Ireland Protocol Is a New Low
Boris Johnson has threatened for some time to blow up Brexit’s Northern Ireland protoocol, and now he’s finally set the process in motion.
Read more...SWIFT Dollar Decline
US-led sanctions are inadvertently undermining post-Second World War dollar dominance. Countries threatened are respond pro-actively.
Read more...Anschluss, Again — Anticipating Poland’s Strategy in Russia’s Intelligence Assessment
Is Poland scheming? And if so, what might come of its plans?
Read more...Pursuing India’s Multi-Aligned Foreign Policy in a Multipolar World: Time for a Sister Souljah Moment?
Offensive comments by BJP officials have sparked diplomatic condemnation, at potential cost to India’s foreign policy of multi-alignment.
Read more...Four Novelists, One Ocean: How Indian Ocean Literature Can Remap the World
Another book to add to the to-read pile, Charne Lavery’s Rewriting Ocean Worlds, about four novelists who center their work on the Indian Ocean and its environs.
Read more...Why What’s Going on Right Now at the WTO Matters
Besides the crucial COVID-19 vaccine patent waiver, far more is at stake at this WTO ministerial than is generally known.
Read more...Global Supply Chains Rattled by Winds of War
An analysis of the concentration of key commodities in supply chains shows why the Russia sanctions are having some outsized effects.
Read more...Primaries Are Getting More Crowded with Candidates, and That’s Good News for Extremists and Bad News for Voters
Mainstream politicians and voters are concerned that extremists are gaining ground. Maybe they should focus on the disease, not the sympoms.
Read more...What Is Really Causing Our Inflation: “Inflation in a Time of Corona and War”
Finally! Evidence-based answers to the main (policy) questions concerning the return of high inflation.
Read more...Why Saudi Arabia Isn’t Giving Up On Its Russian Oil Alliance
Why Saudi Arabia is still not playing nice with the US.
Read more...US Leads Sanctions Killing Millions to No End
Food crises, stagnation and price increases are worsening. Sanctions against Russia hurt those relying on wheat and fertilizer imports.
Read more...Mobile Internet Access and the Desire to Emigrate
Internet access may be boosting the desire to emigrate while reducing the costs of finding information on opportunities abroad
Read more...Michael Hudson: Is US/NATO (with WEF Help) Pushing for a Global South Famine?
Are the coming famines in Africa and parts of Asia an accident or design?
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