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Twenty years ago this week, the terrorist organization al-Qaeda, whose origins date back to 1979 when Soviet troops invaded Afghanistan, hijacked four airplanes and carried out…
Branko Milanovic explores a new book that unpicks ways to address globalizations' downsides.
In an excellent just-published book “Six faces of globalization” …
Three ‘events’ in the coming weeks stand to have a significant impact on the timing of peak oil, with profound implications for Saudi Arabia in particular.
“Gradually and then…
Scott Montgomery unpicks the discourses surrounding the U.S.' uncomfortable withdrawal from Afghanistan.
There is an ugly quality of thrill in the surge of media coverage on…
The new Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) climate assessment report, released on August 9, has finally stated in the most absolute terms that anthropogenic…
Branko Milanovic on why Trotsky's briliance and flaws still haunt the left.
As people who follow my feed know, I have recently reread the three volumes of Leszek Kolakowski’s…
Humanity and the environment are under massive assault by global warming caused by human activities.
The new Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report released…
C. J. Polychroniou on the mounting crises threatening civilisation.
A cursory glance at the state of today’s world will give pause to anyone wishing to celebrate …
Branko Milanovic explores alternatives to the problem of eurocentrism in economics.
Sebastian Conrad’s book “What is global history?” is in many ways important for economists…
Global warming is accelerating, bringing the world close to the edge of the precipice. Heat waves, floods and deaths are major news, and as Truthout has reported, “…