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Can the US beat China in a “trade war”?

Andre Vltchek It is very popular these days to talk and write about the “trade war” between the United...

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Asia-Pacific Trade Deal: Trading Away Indian Agriculture?

Colin Todhunter On the back of Brexit, there are fears in the UK that a trade deal will be...

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Deeper meanings of the Hong Kong protests

Prof. Anis H. Bajrektarević Does our history only appear overheated, while it is essentially calmly predetermined? Is it directional...

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India’s Tryst with Destiny

Colin Todhunter Today, we are in the grip of a globalised system of capitalism which drives narcissism, domination, ego,...

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The EU’s other Periphery

Frank Lee We’ll start with the 10 per capita poorest countries in the whole of Europe. In rank order:...

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Beyond Liberalism: The emergence of new identity politics

Shahzada Rahim Liberalism emerged as the most enduring philosophy of the enlightenment era but since the dawn of the...

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REVIEW: Pounding the road with America’s elderly workers

Tony Sutton Now here’s something to ponder as you munch your morning cornflakes: If the US economy is booming,...

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The Fall and Rise of Racket Capitalism

Frank Lee Delving back into the history of Economic Thought[1] perhaps the most important contributions were made by the...

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Eurasianism: The struggle for the multi-polar world

Shahzada Rahim Three decades ago, American pragmatic commentator Francis Fukuyama wrote The end of History and the Last man,...

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From Dollar Hegemony to Global Warming: Globalization, Glyphosate and Doctrines of Consent

Colin Todhunter There has been an on-going tectonic shift in the West since the abandonment of the Bretton Woods...

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Encouraging Illegal Planting of Bt Brinjal in India

Colin Todhunter In February 2010, the Indian government placed an indefinite moratorium on the commercial release of Bt brinjal....

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REVIEW: Generations apart – high hopes and stolen dreams

>There was a time, in the not-so-distant past, when the English fishing town of Grimsby proudly lived up to...

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Names and Locations of the Top 100 People Killing the Planet

by Jordan Engel, 13 June 2019, via Films for Action “The earth is not dying, it is being killed,...

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The Miners’ Strike: Renewed Class Struggle in Chiatura, Georgia

Sopiko Japaridze via Transnational Social Strike Platform Over 3,000 workers in the manganese mining town of Chiatura (Georgia) started...

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The Neoliberal Disaster of US Healthcare

Imagine if a political party in the UK included in its manifesto a pledge to increase public spending on...

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WATCH: Seizing the Means of Production

Unicorn Riot, via Economic Grassroots Organizing [CC – Greek, English] Workers have successfully self-managed the production of environmentally-friendly cleaning...

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“Only little people pay taxes.”

The Wheel of History Turns To understand the present, we must understand the past, and possibly the future direction...

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WATCH: Costas Lapavitsas Discusses the EU

Labour Leave Costas Lapavitsas, former member of the Syriza government, is a professor of economics at the School of...

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Debt is the Hidden Issue in The European Elections

The citizens of the European Union are called to vote this week for the European Parliament. It is not...

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Globalization North and South: The Road to Nowhere.

Frank Lee ‘We must sell more to strangers yearly than we consume of theirs in value’ Thomas Mun, 1571-1641,...

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