We Will Not Stop Talking about Racism

By Lawrence Ware and Rebecca Martinez Many white people want to stop talking about racism. Consciousness implies action, and that kind of talking about race,...

How to Defeat Western Neo-Colonialism

By Andre Vltchek The West managed to build its wealth, including the social nets, on plunder, deception, slavery and countless holocausts on all continents of...

A Disunited United States: What the 2016 Election Says About America

By Leonard Steinhorn The 2016 election may be focused on the rise of Donald Trump, but the Trump candidacy is possible only because America is...

The Keys to the White House: Forecast for 2016

By Allan J. Lichtman The Keys to the White House, a prediction system that correctly forecasted the outcomes of all eight presidential elections since 1984...

The Strategic Significance of Central Asia

By David Denoon The collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 led to the creation of five newly independent states in Central Asia: Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan,...

Why Selling the SDGs Isn’t As Easy As ABC

By Belinda Goldsmith Amid much hype and expectation, the 193 member states of the United Nations last September agreed on a new ambitious set of...

The Dirty War on Syria: No Popular Uprising

By Tim Anderson The world has been deceived over the conflict in Syria. It was always a ‘regime change’ dirty war and never a popular...

The Responsibility to Participate: The Problem of Global Engagement in Responding to the...

By Charles H. Camp and Theresa Bowman Despite the unanimous agreement of United Nations member states to commit as an international community to global humanitarian...

How Can Brazil Restore its Growth Trajectory?

By Dan Steinbock         Only a few years ago, Brazil exemplified the BRIC dream of rapid growth. Now it is coping with its longest recession,...

Harvesting The Biosphere

By Vaclav Smil Humanity has been harvesting an increasing share of the Earth’s photosynthetic productivity. This has already resulted in a new world where the...

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China’s Challenging Search for a New Model of Economic Growth

By Danny Leipziger China cannot continue to rely on exports to drive its growth, but what are the alternatives? China ran a $1.2 trillion trade surplus last year, and despite admonitions from the IMF to rely...

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