THIS year’s Nobel Prize in economics (the Riksbank Prize to be more precise) has been awarded to three US-based economists for their research into what promotes or hinders the growth of wealth among nations; and they assign a crucial...
Ramzy Baroud Image by Levi Meir Clancy. Israeli officials keep repeating that Israel is fighting on multiple fronts. The truth is that Israel chooses to fight on multiple fronts. The two claims are fundamentally different. Recently, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu went...
Since the birth of the nation-state, corruption has manifested in one form or another. The intrinsic nature of corruption has created a tremendous burden on the state and society. It has caused strain and stress on maintaining the national...
Former US national security advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski warned in 2002 that Israel was losing its global standing as Israeli-Palestinian violence escalated during the second Intifada or uprising against Israeli occupation. At the time, Brzezinski, the former advisor to US Presidents...
THE fact that the world economy has slowed down since the financial crisis of 2008 is beyond dispute. In fact even conservative American economists have started using the term “secular stagnation” to describe the current situation (though they have...
By Lirar Pulikkalakath and Aleena Chacko Photo credit: RABIH DAHER/AFP via Getty Images. Introduction West Asia sadly remains a tinder box of interrelated and multiple conflicts that could explode at any moment if the state and non-state actors continue their aggressiveness. The...
Posted on October 5, 2024 by M. K. BHADRAKUMAR The US president Joe Biden sprang a surprise during a press gaggle with reporters outside the White House on Thursday when he essentially didn’t rule out a potential meeting with his...
Photo by Bianca Berg At a campaign rally in Erie, Pennsylvania, Trump invoked a chilling convergence of law, order, and violence—a cornerstone of what can only be described as his politics of disposability. By referencing The Purge, a dystopian film...
By Kenneth Surin Frederic Jameson in conversation at Fundacíon Juan March. I have known Fred Jameson for 38 years, and was his colleague for 31 of those years. Many would say 90 is a ripe old age, but the loss of...
BY Ramzy Baroud Image by Mohammed al Bardawil. The official Israeli army version of why it has targeted civilian areas during the intense and deadly bombardment of September 20 in south Lebanon is that the Lebanese are hiding long-range missile launchers...