Natylie Baldwin interviews academic Olga Baysha about Ukraine’s president, a former TV actor who has become, since the start of the war, an A-list celebrity in the U.S.
UKRAINE: The Real Zelensky
Tag: Neoliberalism
UKRAINE: The Realist Father of Poland’s Hawkish PM
Morawiecki’s eagerness to be in the vanguard of the West’s proxy war with Russia in Ukraine does not, so to say, run in the family, writes Michal Krupa.
DIANA JOHNSTONE: France Stuck in the Extreme Center
After years of neoliberalism, French politics that venture outside the conformist center’s unshakable loyalty to the Atlantic Alliance are now dangerously “extreme.”
IMF Loans Forcing Austerity on Crisis-Ravaged Nations
IMF pandemic-related loans are forcing developing nations to implement austerity measures that fuel further impoverishment and inequality, an Oxfam analysis finds.
A Future Society
Research institutes from around the world have come together to start an international discussion responding to the broad crises of our times, writes Vijay Prashad.
A Bittersweet 2021
Supply Chain Disruption Arrives ‘Just in Time’
Kim Moody says cost-cutting methods introduced to the Western auto industry in the 1980s have spread to every type of goods and service production, transport and retail.
Neoliberal Capitalism, Supply Chains & Inflation
Ending U.S. child care subsidies won’t restock store shelves, writes Sonali Kolhatkar. A fairer, more sustainable global economy might.
Chile’s Triumph over the Legacy of Pinochet
“For decades, our people have expressed their dreams and hopes on the streets and in the squares,” Gabriel Boric’s party said after their candidate’s victory.
Sweden’s Social Democrats Turn Back to the Left
Before next year’s general election, the Social Democrats may have time to present an alternative to the most conservative opposition ever seen in Sweden, writes Maria Oskarson.