The Rich Versus Poor Country Stakes at the WTO’s 13th Ministerial Conference This Month in Abu Dhabi
The upcoming WTO is likely to see a power struggle between its traditional advanced economy leaders and the so-called Global Majority.
Read more...The upcoming WTO is likely to see a power struggle between its traditional advanced economy leaders and the so-called Global Majority.
Read more...Some data from New York City shows how the marked increase in new migrants is stressing services and not good for the migrants either.
Read more...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.
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