America’s wars are remote. They’re remote from us geographically, remote from us emotionally (unless you’re serving in the military or have a close relative or friend who serves), and remote from our major media outlets, which have given us no compelling narrative about them, except that they’re being fought by “America’s heroes” against foreign [...]
From the viewpoint of social progress, it is a positive sign that the workers are now breaking their silence. All progressive minded people should now come to the support of workers. Does raising voice against exploitation or making people aware of their Rights amount to Terrorism ? Astonishing it may sound, but it is [...]
Occupy Wall Street, the ongoing demonstration-cum-sleep-in that began a month ago not far from the New York Stock Exchange and has since spread like wildfire to cities around the country, may be a game-changer. If so, it couldn’t be more appropriate or more in the American grain that, when the game changed, Wall Street [...]
Can Washington move from Pacific Power to Pacific Partner? The United States has long styled itself a Pacific power. It established the model of counterinsurgency in the Philippines in 1899 and defeated the Japanese in World War II. It faced down the Chinese and the North Koreans to keep the Korean peninsula divided in [...]
As I documented in February, soaring food prices, corruption and youth unemployment are leading causes of the “Arab Spring” of unrest in the Middle East. And I’ve repeatedly pointed out that it is a global – not Arab – revolution: The worldwide riots are not mysterious or unforeseeable. They’ve been predicted for years, and [...]
Your Excellency, President of the General Assembly: Honorable Representatives of the Peoples of the World: Ladies and Gentlemen: I address these words to the United Nations General Assembly, to this great forum where all the peoples of the earth are represented, to express Bolivarian Venezuela’s truths and to reassert our inalienable commitment to justice [...]
Over the last two decades or more, Republicans have been denouncing as “class warfare” any attempt at criticizing and restraining their mean one-sided system of capitalist financial expropriation. The moneyed class in this country has been doing class warfare on our heads and on those who came before us for more than two centuries. But [...]
Interview with Yanis Varoufakis on Europe’s Greek Moment Since the Greek Parliament approved the austerity measures and privatization program imposed by the troika back in June, we have witnessed how the government has been told over and over again that it is not moving fast enough in implementing such measures. In addition, Greece has [...]
In debates about whether the economic order that is emerging in China after three decades of market reforms can be called capitalist the main focus has been about trends in the relative importance of private and state enterprises and the role of the state in the economy. These are important issues, of course, involving [...]
The decline and fall of just about everyone More than 10 years ago, before 9/11, Goldman Sachs was predicting that the BRIC countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China) would make the world economy’s top ten — but not until 2040. Skip a decade and the Chinese economy already has the number two spot all to [...]