Should we have boycotted the World Cup in Qatar? Probably not. Since we have always accepted to participate in sports competitions with regimes far removed from social and electoral democracy, starting with China (2008 Olympic Games) and Russia (2018 World Cup), the boycott of Qatar would have been interpreted as a new mark of the hypocrisy of Westerners, always ready to give lessons to a few small countries when it suits them, while continuing to do business with all those who bring them enough money.
Geopolitics
Omer Bartov: “Infinite License”
The memory of the holocaust has , perversely, been enlisted to justify both the eradication of Gaza and the extraordinary silence with which the viloence has met. Read HERE
EU politics
Wolfgang Munchau – What happens at EU’s eastern borders?
The next step to shooting people on EU borders is closer than anyone dares to think. As usual, EU liberal-democracy is nothing more than moral posturing behind which stands a brutal neo-liberalism. Not mentioned in […]
Economics
Bill Mitchell – Is the $US900 billion stimulus in the US likely to overheat the economy
Comments made last week by the former Clinton, Obama and now Biden economist Lawrence Summers contesting whether it was sensible for the US government to provide a $US2,000 once-off, means-tested payments was met with widespread […]
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