The latest package of US sanctions on Iran is unlikely to achieve Washington’s objectives Jeffrey D. Sachs is University Professor and Director of the Center for Sustainable Development at Columbia University. He is President of [...]
Donald Trump is determined to subvert the midterms. All that can save us, if he succeeds, is a national strike. Chris Hedges is a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist who was a foreign correspondent for fifteen years [...]
A government has plenty of alternatives in dealing with its debt, but most are not palatable for financial speculators Richard Murphy is an economic justice campaigner. Professor of Accounting at Sheffield University Management School., and [...]
Review of Odd Arne Westad’s “The Coming Storm” Branko Milanović is an economist specialised in development and inequality. His latest book, The Great Global Transformation: National Market Liberalism in a Multipolar World, was published November [...]
Corporate profits are skyrocketing as the AI boom continues, while workers continue to lose out. Michael Roberts is an Economist in the City of London and a prolific blogger. Cross-posted from Michael Roberts’ blog As the [...]
Burnham promised to end neoliberalism, but he has already U-turned on his most ambitious policies. Joe Gill has worked as a journalist in London, Venezuela and Oman, for newspapers including Financial Times, Morning Star and [...]
Walter Benjamin’s view of revolution, as an emergency break on a runaway train, is increasingly relevant in an era of war and climate breakdown. Chris Bambery is an author, political activist and commentator. His books include A [...]
Trump wants to avoid a major flare-up before the mid-terms, but Iran may calculate that now is the time hit back hard. Trita Parsi is the co-founder and Executive Vice president of the Quincy Institute [...]
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 [...]