Michael Hudson Discusses the IMF and World Bank: Partners In Backwardness
Michael Hudson explains how the IMF and World Bank support US hegemony.
Read more...Category Archives: Globalization
U.N. Report: ‘Human Rights Might Not Survive’ Climate Crisis
Not surprisingly, the poor, particularly in developing countries, will be devastated by climate change.
Read more...Mobility and the Desire for Sovereignity in Europe
Lack of geographic mobiliity is a major culprit in the rise of nationalism.
Read more...One Hundred Years After World War I, Are We Heading Back to the Abyss?
The odds of a major war, even one that could fracture the world order, appear uncomfortably high.
Read more...Brexit Radicals
Looking for cheery news on Brexit? You’ll have to look awfully hard.
Read more...“Convenience” for Whom?
Lambert goes to the convenience store and buys coffee.
Read more...Trade Wars in the Global Value Chain Era
Why trade wars are more costly than conventional wisdom would have you believe now that manufacturing to a large degree depends on global value chains.
Read more...Whether It’s the New NAFTA or the Old NAFTA, It Serves the 1 Percent
By Leo W. Gerard, the international president of the United Steelworkers Union (USW). Produced by the Independent Media Institute Mick Mulvaney, a millionaire who is President Trump’s acting chief of staff and director of the Office of Management and Budget, awarded himself another job last week: spokesman for labor. Referring to the proposed new NAFTA, […]
Read more...Book Review: Chris Arnade’s “Dignity”
Chris Arnade’s 150,000-mile, multi-year photograhic journey through unthriving America—urban and rural, black and white, from Lewiston, Maine, to Bakersfield, California, with many stops in between.
Read more...Wolf Richter: Global Semiconductor Sales Plunge 24% from Peak, Deepest % Plunge since Financial Crisis, Deepest $ Plunge Ever. Here’s Why
A slew of reasons, the China debacle on top.
Read more...Midwest Flooding, the Corn and Soy Crops, and Knock-On Effects
How bad are the Midwest floods for crops? Very bad indeed.
Read more...China-Russia Partnership Threatens US Global Hegemony
America expected China to join the international economic community as a subordinate power, but China’s deals with Russia show China moving towards parity in economic and military sway.
Read more...As Developing Countries Reject Plastic Waste Exports, Wealthy Nations Seek Solutions
Chinese and emerging economy bans on accepting plastic waste exports have put the the First World in a bind. Will they quit their plastic habit?
Read more...Chinese Embargo Threats Ring Hollow—the Reason Why Lies in Rare Earths
Supply chains are multinational in scope and supply. A trade embargo is ultimately self-defeating.
Read more...Brexit Dithering
The Bexit noise to signal ratio continues to be awfully high thanks to the Tory leadership contest.
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