Using private finance to build public infrastructure is short-sighted and almost always ends up costing the public purse more in the long run. Maike Schmidt is an assistant researcher at the New Economics Foundation and [...]
Author of a new book titled ‘Capitalism and the Media’. Des Freeman is a professor of media and communications at Goldsmiths, London. Cross-posted from Counterfire Could you tell us a little about yourself and your [...]
One small town in the West Bank refused to accept quiet annihilation by the Zionist colonialists and fought back, showing Palestinian resistance is still alive. Ramzy Baroud is a journalist and the Editor of the [...]
The ICC arrest warrant against Benjamin Netanyahu has, to date, been the only serious attempt by the international community to bring the Israeli state to justice for the genocide in Gaza. The person who brought [...]
British politics has never been the same since Brexit. Deepak Tripathi, PhD, is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and a Fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland. He blogs [...]
It might be comforting for us in the global north to tell ourselves that China is dominating high-tech manufacturing because it’s workers are paid a lot less than here, but it’s not true and that [...]
AI would produce socially extremely unequal and politically much more unstable societies than the current proponents of abundance created by the artificial intelligence want us to believe. Branko Milanović is an economist specialised in development [...]
Michael Hudson and Radhika Desai examine the gap between Trump’s promised economic boom and the reality of an economy sustained by asset bubbles rather than production. They show that the stock market’s rise reflects cheap [...]
Reviewed by Branko Milanović The just published book by Christian Christiansen Designing Global Economic Equality: The Making and Unmaking of Global Egalitarian Policies at the United Nations provides an intellectual review of the history of [...]
