Almost everyone agrees on the analysis of what caused the yellow jacket movement: the growth of inequalities, the marginalization of certain regions and social categories, austerity and neoliberal politics. Then accounts diverge.
Read more...UNCTAD’s latest World Development Report criticises the free trade delusion. This short post considers the trade alternative put forward seventy years ago in the Havana Charter — one that was neither nationalist nor neoliberal.
Read more...More on the arrest and planned extradition of Huawei CFO Meng.
Read more...A US criminal case targeting Huawei has thrown a big spanner into US-China relations.
Read more...What the G20 and OPEC meetings mean for the political relations, economies, and people of the world.
Read more...The Amazon strikes in Spain, Italy, France, the United Kingdom, and Germany.
Read more...Financial crime is a feature of our global financial system not a bug, pioneering economist Susan Strange recognized.
Read more...The IMF is back again, flexing its muscle in Argentina and Mexico, pushing the neoliberal Washington Consensus, says Vijay Prashad in this Real News Network interview.
Read more...Contrary to the dominant media narrative, social issues like racism and sexism on their own can’t explain Trump’s success.
Read more...Brexit news still looks decidedly uncheery.
Read more...China has more of a glass jaw than most economics commentators thought. But how is Trump’s trade war likely to progress?
Read more...The US and China are even more visibly at odds than usual.
Read more...Although recycling is far from a viable solution to the world’s plastic problem, even these inadequate efforts are lacking, as press accounts from last week of corruption in the UK recycling industry, and Japan’s lag in implementing even the limited plastic reduction measures undertaken elsewhere reveal.
Read more...It’s no secret that globalization created losers, and the Democrats seem determined to ignore them.
Read more...The lay of the Brexit land is becoming clearer after the inconclusive October European Council summit.
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