by Medea Benjamin, Nicolas J.S. Davies | Aug 5, 2020 | Health, Redev
Tensions between the United States and China are rising as the U.S. election nears, with tit-for-tat consulate closures, new U.S. sanctions, and no less than three U.S. aircraft carrier strike groups prowling the seas around China. But it is the United States that has...
by Conn Hallinan | Aug 4, 2020 | Redev, War & Peace
Chinese and Indian forces have pulled back from their confrontation in the Himalayas, but the tensions that set off the deadly encounter this past June—the first on the China/India border since 1975—are not going away. Indeed, a poisonous combination of local...
by John Feffer | May 20, 2020 | Labor, Trade, & Finance, Redev, War & Peace
Economists like to think of the wreckage caused by stock market downturns, widespread bankruptcies, and corporate downsizing as “creative destruction.” As it destroys the old and the dysfunctional, the capitalist system continually spurs innovation, much as a forest...
by John Feffer | May 6, 2020 | Democracy & Governance, Health, Redev
Conspiracy theorists never let a crisis go to waste. When something truly terrible happens, the conspiracy theorist sets to work to determine the dark, hidden forces at work behind the scenes that have produced the crisis. Some people might see God or the Devil as the...
by Mel Gurtov | Mar 31, 2020 | Health, Redev
One of the unavoidable consequences of political analysis is an out-of-the-blue event that upends apparent trends. For both the United States and China, that event is the coronavirus pandemic, which emerged as both governments were celebrating a trade deal and yet...
