by Edward Hunt | Apr 11, 2023 | Democracy & Governance
The United States is quietly waging an economic battle for control of the compact states, three countries in the Pacific Islands that are facing increasing pressure to side with either China or the United States in their growing geopolitical competition in the Pacific...
by Abolghasem Bayyenat | Apr 10, 2023 | War & Peace
The recent Saudi-Iranian rapprochement deal brokered by the Chinese government, which restored diplomatic relations between the two rival Persian Gulf nations after around seven years, has received wide media attention. Many political commentators and analysts have...
by John Feffer | Apr 5, 2023 | Energy, Environment, Global Just Transition
Gustavo Petro doesn’t just want to transform his own country; he wants to change the world. The new leader of Colombia, who took office last August, is targeting what he calls his nation’s “economy of death.” That means pivoting away from oil, natural gas, coal, and...
by Walden Bello | Apr 4, 2023 | Labor, Trade, & Finance
As governments converge on Washington for the International Monetary Fund (IMF)-World Bank Spring Meeting (April 10-16), they are confronted with the daunting prospect that 2023 might be the year that the world will be hit by a developing country debt crisis much like...
by John Feffer | Mar 29, 2023 | War & Peace
The prospect of a nuclear holocaust has always been terrifying. But in the last years of the Cold War and the three decades that followed its end, the existential challenge of nuclear weapons became less of a clear and present danger. Sure, in the post-1991 era,...
