By Michael Roberts Life expectancy is one of the best measures of human development. In hunter-gather societies, on average, about 57-67% of children made it
Category: International Archive
By Hassan Jan in Pakistan [Editorial note: The total area flooded in Pakistan is greater than the total area of the United Kingdom although the
By Richard Mellor in CaliforniaIn his video (below) Jeffrey Sachs, a US economist, academic and public policy analyst, doesn’t mention capitalism or the laws of
By Michael Roberts The G7 governments have a problem. The war in Ukraine against Russia is not won. It looks set to be a long
By Edward Ongweso Jr [Editor: The draconian crackdown on workers’ rights and conditions at work is an international phenomenon, as this report from the Motherboard
By Awais Qarni [Ed: Over eleven hundred have lost their lives in the floods in Pakistan, a million have seen their homes destroyed, and tens
By Michael Roberts Jay Powell, the chair of the US Federal Reserve, made a keynote speech at the annual summer symposium of central bankers in
By Richard Mellor in California The Saudi regime, in particular its leader and dismemberer in chief, Mohammed Bin Salman, has sentenced that nasty Saudi woman,
By Cain O’Mahony This year marks the 80th anniversary of the start of the momentous Battle of Stalingrad (23rd August 1942), the costliest battle in
By Gray Allan, Falkirk CLP Following independence from Britain in 1948, Burma/Myanmar was a military dictatorship from 1962 to 2011. A military junta seized power
