Photo - Denmark THERE are many misconceptions about Scandinavian capitalism. A very common one is the belief that since the Scandinavian countries developed vigorous capitalist economies, without ever having acquired any colonies of their own, they constitute a clear...
Photograph Source: eddiedangerous – CC BY 2.0 The Biden administration is selling the notion that the “new Middle East” requires U.S. involvement at the highest level, and the mainstream media, particularly the Washington Post and the New York Times, are predictably seconding the...
Henry Kissinger (2022): Leadership: Six Studies in World Strategy, New York: Penguin Press (Pp. 528). Every society craves a credible, mature and patronal type of leadership. A leader who shapes the country and governs thy kind in the present in...
By Roger Waters, Vijay Prashad and Manolo de los SantosThe United States maintains a list of countries that it considers as “state sponsors of terrorism.” There are currently four countries on that list: Cuba, North Korea, Iran and Syria....
By Robert Hunziker It’s entirely possible that doomsayers of the world, though widely ridiculed, could be on target about the prospects for global societal collapse. But, of course, when? According to a recent Noam Chomsky interview, it’s an ongoing grind...
Ohio Class nuclear-powered submarine. Photo When faced with the option of acquiring nuclear technology, states have rarely refused.  Since the splitting of the atom and the deployment of atomic weapons in war, the acquisition of a nuclear capacity has been...
Noam Chomsky with David Barsamian, “Chronicles of Dissent” Interview Transcript June 16, 2022. TomDispatch. (Photo: Balaji Narasimhan) From Old Files Can you even remember when it began? Doesn’t it seem like forever? And the timing — if forever can even be said...
Intervening in parliamentary debate on a government-initiated amendment to the Electricity Act, Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe said that India was the only ‘country that is giving us money for fuel’, and he would not be able to ask New Delhi...
When Egyptian football legend Mohammed Aboutreika came out swinging against homosexuality in late 2021, he touched a raw nerve across the Muslim world.The tit-for-tat between Mr. Aboutreika and supporters of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) rights laid bare...