Most people do not know that the term “checkmate” in chess is a loan from Persian. “Shah-mat” means the king is confused and helpless. Trump may learn this hard way—but not without bringing much pain [...]
Finland abandoned it’s socialist policies to embrace Russiphobia, join NATO and give billions of Euros to US and Israeli arms companies, thus furthering the interests of neo-liberalism and the Epstein Class Nate Bear is a journalist, [...]
The last act of death is not mortality but the erasure of memory. Chris Hedges is a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist who was a foreign correspondent for fifteen years for The New York Times, where he served as [...]
The entire pacific and cosmopolitan spirit if the nineties is exposed as an ideological cover to service interests of the rich Branko Milanović is an economist specialised in development and inequality. His latest book, The [...]
Having lost the military war against Iran, the US is about to lose the economic war with its “Operation Economic Fury” offensive Larry C. Johnson is a former CIA officer and intelligence analyst, and former [...]
Macroeconomics remains divorced from what is going on in the real economy Michael Roberts is an Economist in the City of London and a prolific blogger. Cross-posted from Michael Roberts’ blog Photo licensed under the Creative [...]
Jelena Vidojević in conversation with Paul Stubbs Jelena Vidojević is a political scientist and co-founder of the New South Institute. She is also the editor of the ‘Missing Voices: Critical Thinking in Times of Polycrisis’ series. [...]
This myth has helped to maintain Western support for the war but has not served Ukraine – a completely devastated country – well at all. Branko Marcetic is a staff writer with Jacobin magazine and [...]
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 [...]
