Yves here. While there is a lot of merit in the latest discussion between Radhika Desai and Micheal Hudson on their favorite topic of mutlipolarity, I feel compelled to correct some imprecisions. The video depicts the “German government” as having “raised” the debt brake but then “not being allowed” with no depiction of agency, to […]
Read more...A detailed account of the Dublin riot and the related political and social undercurrents in Ireland by our esteemed PlutoniumKun
Read more...A no-holds-barred critique of BRICS as mainly aspiring to participate in in current organizations, rather than a create new ones.
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Read more...After long resistance by rich nations, African governments successfully pushed for the UN to lead on international tax cooperation.
Read more...Today’s hot-button issue is actually as old as the human race.
Read more...An, erm, interesting take on the implications for BRICS for African nations.
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Read more...The West’s discomfort over China’s influence and economic stature is sometimes a bit too obvious.
Read more...Yet more evidence that the BRICS aren’t ready to launch a serious anti-dollar/new currency regime.
Read more...Jomo warns US policies are creating war and depression, pushing developing nations to strengthen democratic institutions of global governance
Read more...ichael Hudson on topics old and new: the role of debt in rentier extraction and US hegemony, and the prosepcts for the dollar and BRICS.
Read more...A US propaganda outlet frets over Niger.
Read more...An assessment of the stakes for France in trying to reverse the military coup in Niger by force.
Read more...We’re late to a story that interestingly has been very much under-reported, perhaps because it is contrary to the anti-globalist narrative….already a minority faction in the Anglosphere. We’ve said for some time that the prospects for replacing the dollar are a long way away, even more so with a newly-created, reserve currency aspirant. Our views […]
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