A new party on the left joins the far-right AfD in challenging Berlin’s subservience to Washington as public anger grows against current government.
Read more...The US again plans to deploy its favorite weapon, sanctions, againt Iran. But will the US get the cooperation it expects?
Read more...Beijing asked Washington numerous times to partner in the Belt and Road Initiative. Instead the US works against it.
Read more...Why the war between Israel and Palestine is moving towards very bad outcomes.
Read more...Michael Hudson on China’s wobbles, Russia-China cooperation, the revolt against colonialism and neoliberalism, and the conflict in Gaza.
Read more...On US escalation versus China, particularly on the PR front.
Read more...Fed whisperer Greg Ip expresses cautious concern about China, based on the latest IMF forecasts.
Read more...American leadership drunk on its belief in its exceptionalism, drone and war with China edition.
Read more...China is challenging the US retaining what amounts to veto rights at the IMF. What next?
Read more...Michael Hudson clears up some of the considerable confusion about what a new BRICS “currency” would amount to.
Read more...How Americans, or at least their putative leaders, are pursing policies that are deranged and increasingly authoritarian.
Read more...A no-holds-barred critique of BRICS as mainly aspiring to participate in in current organizations, rather than a create new ones.
Read more...Recession complacency means things are wobblier than they seem.
Read more...The neocons go to their usual playbook. Meanwhile, India expands trade routes with Russia and looks for a way forward with Beijing.
Read more...A model finds that China closely tracked the trajectory of Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan. Does this claim hold up to close scrutiny?
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