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The daily news is filled with stories about the spiraling conflict between the U.S. and China over everything from trade to geopolitical squabbles and dueling military exercises. All of these converge over Taiwan — a small nation claimed by China as a renegade province, backed by the U.S., and (...)
THE CONVERGING CATASTROPHES of global capitalism have landed on multiple communities, peoples and nations — but nowhere harder than on displaced populations, refugees and asylum seekers. There are by now an estimated 100 million people globally who have fled their homelands or become internally (...)
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has fed calls for the West to radically step up its own military spending. An arms race only increases the risk of a conflict between China and the US — a global disaster that we must do everything in our power to prevent.
With Vladimir Putin’s disastrous invasion of (...)
Stock markets are jumping back up today. It seems that financial investors think the monetary authorities and banking supervisors have got the banking crisis under control. That could be wishful thinking.
The banking crisis of 2023 is not over yet. The Californian ‘tech’ bank Silicon Valley (...)
The banking industry has been beset by a series of failures, government bailouts, and takeovers. The crisis in these banks has sent stock markets around the world into gyrations. What caused all of this? Is this a passing crisis? What impact will it have on the real economy? Spectre’s Ashley (...)
Since Sunday, 19 March 2023, it has been clear that the ailing Swiss bank Credit Suisse will be taken over by its competitor UBS. However, this new monster colossus has only come about because once again the Swiss state is stepping into the breach and thus the wage earners are being obliged by (...)
As these two states fight for dominion over global capitalism, it’s time to unite for collective liberation.
The rivalry between the U.S. and China has hit fever pitch. Whatever rapprochement seemed in the offing with Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s scheduled summit with Xi Jinping in (...)
New research shows that companies are shifting record amounts of their profits to tax havens, despite a global effort to crack down on the practice.
About a decade ago, the world’s biggest economies agreed to crack down on multinational corporations’ abusive use of tax havens. This resulted in a (...)
Walden Bellow assumes that today it is necessary for the left to “buy back”, as he puts it, “deglobalisation as a liberating paradigm for today´s world”. In his view this could promote what he calls “effective economies”. This he assumes, would strengthen solidarity within the single countries but (...)
A Chinese surveillance balloon floating across the United States from Alaska to South Carolina last week became the symbol of the increasing inter-imperialist rivalry between the United States and China. The U.S. military shot down the balloon, over the Atlantic Ocean, leading the Chinese (...)
How and when did private military companies (PMCs) emerge? What have they been they doing, and where? What do private military companies and Wagner have in common? Journalists from the “Barmaleys/Partisans” project delve into the history of the question
The world’s first private military (...)
Extreme weather events in 2022 once again underlined that the planet is in an age of climate breakdown. Record-breaking heat waves in Pakistan, India, China and Europe were followed by extreme drought conditions in Europe, the United States, Kenya and China’s Yangtze basin. Following intense (...)
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has accelerated a series of underlying trends in world politics that are leading us into a dangerous new world order. This new order is not arriving already formed, and there will be interruptions and reverses along the way, but four key features are coming into (...)
At first glance, the trajectories of Russia and China in the course of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries seem very similar: from revolution to reintegration into the capitalist world market at the risk of (again) becoming dominated countries, followed by a rebound leading to the (...)
A world war was declared on 7 October. No news station reported on it, even though we will all have to suffer its effects. That day, the Biden administration launched a technological offensive against China, placing stringent limits and extensive controls on the export not only of integrated (...)
Last week, one of the world’s biggest cryptocurrency exchanges collapsed in spectacular fashion after accusations of improper handling of funds triggered a good old-fashioned bank run. Once valued at more than US$30 billion, the Bahamas-based firm FTX is now on the brink of collapse. This (...)
If accepted, the new proposed BRICS members would create an entity with a GDP 30% larger than the United States, over 50% of the global population and in control of 60% of global gas reserves.
The Russian Foreign Minister, Sergey Lavrov has stated that ‘over a dozen’ countries have formally (...)
The world economy is mired in a crisis of stagflation not seen since the 1970s. Economies are slowing or in recession, central banks are jacking up interest rates in an attempt to control inflation, and workers and oppressed people are yet again bearing the cost of the crisis and alleged (...)
A detailed look at Barbara Walter and Paul Mason’s latest works
Having tangled with fascists in the streets and studied them, progressive journalist Paul Mason, author of How to Stop Fascism, thinks he has a thing or two to say about them. To him, the January 6 attack on the US capitol was no (...)
‘The fantasy of an instinctively peaceful world may be comforting, but it is again coming to an end’, Alex Karp, CEO of Peter Thiel’s CIA-funded Palantir, wrote in an ominous open letter to European leaders a few weeks after the full-scale invasion of Ukraine. A co-founder of the company – and (...)
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