Ricardo Pascoe Pierce The contemporary world has become a highly dangerous place. The bipolar Cold War world of communism and capitalism, inaugurated after World War II in 1945, ended with the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1990. Despite the permanent threat of nuclear war, …
Antonio Navalón In just 15 days, the world changed. When it seemed that the world could only be capable of sustaining or witnessing a single armed conflict at a time – referring to the war between Ukraine and Russia – the terrorist group Hamas forced …
Ricardo Pascoe Pierce Russia, Ukraine, Israel, Palestine, Syria, Iran, Afghanistan, Sudan, Niger, Chad, Congo, Ecuador, Venezuela, Colombia, Nicaragua, El Salvador and… Mexico. These countries have two phenomena in common. First, they are nations (if they can be called that) suffering from processes of internal decomposition …
John Mearsheimer At the 2023 CLSA CITIC Securities Investors’ Forum, political scientist John Mearsheimer talks about how the USA, Russia, and China now dominate a multipolar world order. He concludes that the Russia-Ukraine conflict will continue for the foreseeable future, and the best that can …
Ricardo Pascoe Pierce The United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) meeting was held last week in an atmosphere of global realignments. The leaders’ speeches (3 women among men) from multiple countries expressed opinions on common issues: the war in Ukraine, the global financial system, poverty, the …
Riccardo Pascoe Pierce AMLO invited the countries closest to his heart to the September 16, 2023, military parade. All are ruled by dictatorships: Russia, China, Cuba and Nicaragua. Instead of being a parade commemorating a heroic deed in our national life, the president transformed the …
Mexico faces a political challenge of enormous dimensions. It needs a new system as the one that ruled for over a century has collapsed. The ease with which the President attacks and dismantles institutions proves that Mexican democracy is far too fragile and that the …
Oleg Nesterenko, President of the Centre de Commerce & d’Industrie Européen *Originally published: Donbass Insider on July 5, 2023, L’Eclaireur des Alpes on Jul 13, 2023, and by the Monthly Review Online on July 14, 2023 This is the second of three parts of an interview that Oleg Nesterenko, President …
Just like the anecdote that so many times they mistakenly said that the wolf was coming and when it finally arrived nobody believed it, we could be in recession. The accelerated increase in interest rates should be causing the economy to slacken rapidly and inflation …
Antonio Navalón The various modifications of European borders throughout history can be likened to open-heart surgery. Since the Greeks and since the time of the Roman Empire, there has never been a peaceful alteration of Europe’s geographical boundaries. Today, the case is no different. Europe …