Though Mueller’s revelations have shocked the American public consciousness, they were not the biggest financial scandals of the year.
Read more...The world’s weather is becoming more extreme before our eyes—the only thing that can stop this destructive trend from escalating is a rapid fall in carbon emissions.
Read more...The IMF has a long history of strong-arming the direction of Argentina’s policies and economy.
Read more...Due to Western misperceptions and China’s rising authoritarianism, the current trade war is evolving dangerously into Cold War 2.0.
Read more...Great. Will the new maxim of war be, “He who controls the training set controls the future”?
Read more...After “the worst-on-record unbelievably bad” November, even e-commerce gets hit, not just brick & mortar, on fears Christmas sales could be terrible. Can we make out any a silver lining in this retail meltdown, signs of a shift necessary away from fast fashion toward a more sustainable future?
Read more...Some short notes on recent efforts to improve the sustainability of the notoriously wasteful fashion industry – by reusing trash as treasure, embracing the circular economy, and reusing plastic harvested from the sea.
Read more...Scottish Limited Partnerships and International Crime: NO evidence??
Read more...Western countries insist both on “free trade” with poor countries and farm subsidies for themselves.
Read more...Why to be leery of philanthropy, particularly when practiced by squillionaires.
Read more...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.
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