A PLAN OF ACTION FOR EUROPEAN POLITICS
Before anything else what we need today is a paradigm to diagnose and address the many grave global problems that face us all but are experienced differently in the various regions of the world....
View ArticleIRENE, THE UNITED STATES, AND THE CARIBBEAN
Anyone who discusses international affairs with Americans quickly becomes aware of a fundamental change in syntax without which they find it impossible to converse. The subject of every sentence has to...
View ArticleBANKS DO NOT LEARN THE LESSONS OF HISTORY
There is not one day going by now without devastating news of the eternal tug-of-war between finance and states. Now we are informed that the Greek government, in order to continue receiving useless...
View ArticleCHINA: THE ECONOMY GROWS WHILE CULTURAL IDENTITY DISAPPEARS
Xie Jing is 15 years old and belongs to the generation that in 2020, according to predictions, will see China transformed into the major world economic power. But Xie has no political or cultural...
View ArticleCHINA: WAITING FOR NEW GOVERNMENT AND MAJOR REFORMS
A recurrent prediction of western politicians says that China, with its economic development, will inevitably transform itself into a democracy. Nonetheless, after five weeks traveling around the...
View ArticleEurope: Finance Takes Over Politics
Like passengers on a ship in a storm, European banks and governments are holding onto each other in a precarious embrace. The storm is financial and at this point in the crisis the old roles are...
View ArticleBanks and Politics: A Dangerous Mix
Hardly a week goes by without the disclosure of some new banking scandal. The most recent is the New York State Department of Financial Services’ accusation of Britain’s Standard Chartered of...
View ArticleSerious Conflict Brewing Between China and Japan
From time to time, we read about the confrontation between Japan and China over some insignificant islands, called the Senkaku by Japan and Diaoyu by China, which are also claimed by Taiwan. Japan also...
View ArticleAFTER TWO LOST DECADES, JAPAN IS SLIPPING
In the 1980s, Japan was the dragon of the world. All cutting edge technology cars, gadgets, cameras, medical equipment and new management systems came from Japan. Then the country started to slow...
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China is Opening a Confrontation on the Sea
The victory of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) in the recent Japanese elections, with Shinzo Abe coming back as prime minister after five years, will probably mean an escalation of tensions with...
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Switzerland Sets Example for Income Equality
For those who think that Occupy Wall Street, the Indignados in Spain, the World Social Forum and the numerous manifestations of protest worldwide are expressions without concrete outcomes, the result...
View ArticleLatin American Integration, Post-Chávez
What is Hugo Chávez’s legacy to Latin America? The best way to evaluate a head of state is to examine what is left behind after his or her death. In the case of Chávez, his image is obscured by a...
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We Are All Thatcherites Now
The flood of elegiac articles on former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher is in itself a good measure of how we have all become Thatcherites without realising it. Only those who are not graced...
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The Free Market Fundamentalists Are Now in Europe
For a long time it was a given that while Europe was based on defending a more just society, with social values and solidarity, the United States was based on the glory of individualism and...
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Austerity is Dismantling the European Dream
The European Union (EU) has asked its citizens to brace for further economic misery. In a report on European economic prospects released on May 3, the European Commission said that further...
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Europe’s Youth Count Ten Times Less than Its Banks
"Indignados" in Málaga, Spain, protest cuts in health and education. Credit: Inés Benítez/IPSAt the last summit of European heads of state held in Brussels at the end of June, the main theme was youth...
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Newspapers Are Becoming the Toys of Billionaires
Few people today know that when the first news agencies were created in the 19th century, the French Havas and the British Reuters divided the world between themselves. The division followed the...
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Sliding Back to the Victorian Age
A recent report by the Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion at the London School of Economics called attention to the fact that, at the present rate of inequality, by the year 2025, the United...
View ArticleTHE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO WALL STREET
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View ArticleA PLAN OF ACTION FOR EUROPEAN POLITICS
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