The Financial Times report on the fall of Israel’s economy in the fourth quarter was briefly the lead story and was oddly shuffled quickly off the landing page. The article gives a terse but incomplete tally of the factors that contributed to a decline at a 20% rate in the final quarter, which was markedly […]
Read more...An article promoting NATO is revealing, and not in a good way.
Read more...US agriculture workers are in desperate need of labor action as the employers (and regulators) do next to nothing to ensure safe working and living conditions.
Read more...NYC Mayor Adams wants to close overflow sites where migrants evicted from shelters sleep on the ground while waiting for a new cot
Read more...A perspective from Kurdistan on the US’ choices in the Middle East, with control over oil an open question.
Read more...The risk of rolling financial/economic crises across much of the Global South is high and the pressures seem only to be rising.
Read more...Some concrete proposals for how to slip the yoke of neoliberalism and start building a fairer and more functional economy.
Read more...Net-zero is staring to look like a big zero. Not at all good news to those who would like this planet to be hospitable in 100 years.
Read more...Why Lenin was right.
Read more...Investor-State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) provisions in trade pacts – long abused by opportunists – are slowly being rejected by governments.
Read more...A new study claims that a substantial majority of foreign businesses in Russia that were supposed to exit due to sanctions are still there.
Read more...Open seas, often touted as freedom of navigation, may be on its way out due to US negligence and technology change.
Read more...More on Boeing as a symbol of industrial decline, here due to broader environmental and coming energy cost pressures.
Read more...By Alessandro Borin, Deputy Head, Emerging Markets and World Trade Division at Bank Of Italy, Gianmarco Cariola, Research Economist at Bank Of Italy, Elena Gentili, Economist at Bank Of Italy, Andrea Linarello, Economist at Bank Of Italy, Michele Mancini, Senior Economist at Bank Of Italy, Tullia Padellini, Statistician at Bank Of Ital, Ludovic Panon, Senior […]
Read more...Michael Hudson describes how the US, embarrassingly bested by Russia and now the Houthis, is doubling down on ally-damaging economic retaliation.
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