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Challenging the western monetary system, the Eurasia Economic Union is leading the Global South toward a new common payment system to bypass the US Do ...[Read more]
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The long read: The year 2020 exposed the risks and weaknesses of the market-driven global system like never before. It’s hard to avoid the sense that a turning point has been reached ...[Read more]
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As a share of G.D.P., Denmark’s coronavirus relief spending is a bit less than America’s, but it seems more effective at protecting the population.
The upshot is that Denmark staggered through the pandemic with employees still on the payroll and still ...[Read more]
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When photographer Paul Nicklen and filmmakers from conservation group Sea Legacy arrived on Baffin Island in late summer, they came across a heartbreaking sight: a starving polar bear on its deathbed ...[Read more]
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The G20 as a whole was a noxious military dystopia disguised as a global summit. "Welcome to Hell" and other assorted protests, on multiple levels, were sort of answering another Trump-in-Warsaw... ...[Read more]
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Not since the Great Depression has wealth inequality in the US been so acute, new in-depth study finds
Wealth inequality in the US is at near record levels according to a new study by academics. Over the past three decades, the share of household wealth o ...[Read more]
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The world’s eight richest billionaires control the same wealth between them as the poorest half of the globe’s population, according to a charity warning of an ever-increasing and dangerous concentration of wealth.
In a report published to coincide wi ...[Read more]
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A half-hearted near handshake between US President Barack Obama and Russian President Vladimir Putin before and after they spoke «for about four minutes», standing up, on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit in Lima, Peru ...[Read more]
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Trump was the perfect wrong play, wrong director, wrong cast. And he won. Springtime for Hitler is a hit. But something happened during the last month of this election. I suspect Clinton had it won after the first debate. So, how and why did the DNC clutc ...[Read more]
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[Many of] the angry and disaffected are victims of the neoliberal policies of the past generation, the policies described in congressional testimony by Fed chair Alan Greenspan -- "St. Alan," as he was called reverentially by the economics profession and ...[Read more]
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At the most recent session of the U.N. Human Rights Council, Saudi Arabia objected to a resolution that condemns the use of torture by law enforcement and reaffirms the human rights of LGBT people.
The resolution, passed during the council’s 31st sessio ...[Read more]
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