by Claudius Gräbner and Jakob Hafele With its recently proposed €750bn recovery and resilience facility the EU aims to tackle the adverse...| Rebuild Macro
Global economic power is shifting, liberal market-oriented democracies face growing domestic turmoil, and international trade and financial integration is crumbling. How did we get here?| HURST
See a full list, sorted by subject, at New items include From Slave Plantations to the Vatican, Society Exists, and Immigrants Strain It, Wars in Ukraine and Canaan encouraged by the USA, US Hegemo…| Gwydion Madawc Williams
It we keep putting it off. We always find some reason for not engaging that solution. For explaining to ourselves why ‘it can’t be done’. In many cases burning hours... Read more » The post There is a Solution for this World – and We All Know What It Is first appeared on Julian Rose.| Julian Rose
Borders are not natural – they are political constructs designed to serve economic interests. In this video, Arun Kundnani explains that, while capital and goods move freely across borders, labor is heavily restricted, often through violent means. The idea that people must be kept out of certain regions is a relatively recent development, emerging in… The post Video: why capitalists build up the border walls appeared first on Arun Kundnani.| Arun Kundnani
The liberal world order, the whole post-war, rules-based thing that we treasured. That’s obviously over. It’s not just what’s happening now, and not just in theatres of war: the symptoms of the end of the progressive or liberal period are everywhere – and we learn that it was really all bullshit anyway. I argue about… Continue reading What have we learnt?| Bowblog
Democracy – Older than Parliaments. A new essay that looks first at what is going wrong in the USA. How Trump is wrong on the economy, but it following the only possible path to peace for Ukraine. …| Gwydion Madawc Williams
Cabo Verde is not a rich country. To have an idea, the minimum wage is €130 a month and a meal in a restaurant costs around €10. The IMF classifies Cabo Verde as a developing country.| Crooked Timber
LAWHA’s Principal Investigator Nadia von Maltzahn has started a six-months fellowship at the Käte Hamburger Kolleg global dis:connect (gd:c) in Munich, taking place from 15 October 2024 to 15 April 2025. The global dis:connect research centre examines the dynamic, co-constitutive relationship of...| LAWHA Lebanon's Art World at Home and Abroad
© www.viewsoftheworld.net Football is a truly global phenomenon. Statistics about the real support are problematic, but there are estimates of up to 3.5 billion fans of football globally. A study conducted in 2006 by the Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA), which … Continue reading → The post Sports Report: The globalised world of European football was written by Benjamin Hennig and published on Views of the World. If you enjoyed this, you might want to follow me o...| Views of the World
It’s the end of the world as we know it - but no one. it seems, has told Al Gore. “Politics has futurism coiled within its rhetoric – the politician generally promises a better, brighter future, so long as you vote for him or her. It is rare that a politician will say, ‘Don’t bother to vote, it’s all doomed, just go home and wait for the end.’ Yet a politician can sometimes afford to be a qualified eschatologist, and such optimistic pessimism can even take them a long way – as...| Arcfinity
October to December: Freedom – Never Really Unlimited, Western Liberals as Greedy Failures, BBC Bias Over Gaza, A World FailingContinue reading| Gwydion Madawc Williams
Many more. The newest blogs are at the top. https://gwydionmadawc.com/my-blogs/ Mostly about why the USA’s version of Globalisation has failed,Continue reading| Gwydion Madawc Williams
By Halvor Hvideberg, Ambassador of Norway to the OECD The maritime sector occupies a critical position in global efforts to transition to net-zero. It accounts for up to 3% of global CO2 emissions,…| Environment Focus