The Coming War on China
By John Pilger
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Why the Media is a Key Dimension of Global Inequality
By Nick Couldry and Clemencia Rodriguez
Assad Adviser Says We Are In A Time That Will Determine The Future Of The World
By Brandon Turbeville
Revisiting The Anthropology of Trump: Ethnography and the Power of Culture
By Paul Stoller
The Good, The Bad, and The Rational
By Deborah Heikes Enlightenment thinkers tell us “all men are created equal” while simultaneously owning slaves, disenfranchising women, and supporting colonialism. The article offers…
Communities, not countries, are best equipped to fix the world’s economic woes
By Peter Block
Japan’s politics is opening up to women, but don’t expect a feminist revolution yet
By Emma Dalton and Mari Miura
“Anti-Americanism” in the Philippines. President Duterte’s Subaltern Counter-Hegemony
By E. San Juan Jr. Guerilla Incursions from the Boondocks
How to Understand Syria’s “Proxy war” – And Who’s Fighting For Whom
By Simon Mabon
Lesbian Culture Is Being Erased Because Investors Think Only Gay Men (And Straight People) Have Money
By Marcie Bianco
White Capital, Black Labour and the After Lives of the Race Problem in Modern America
By Paul R.D. Lawrie Racism still remains to be a part of white Americans’ subconsciousness. This article discusses the history of racial politics, the…
Anarchy in the USA: Five Years On, the Legacy of Occupy Wall Street and What It Can Teach Us In The Age of Trump
By Ruth Kinna, Alex Prichard and Thomas Swann
Donald Trump and the world: Five challenges
By Simon Reich
Five Things That Explain Donald Trump’s Stunning Presidential Election Victory
By Anthony J. Gaughan
Loss and Damage of Climate Change – from Managing Risks to the Politics of Compensation
By Swenja Surminski With the passing of the Paris Agreement on Climate Change, efforts to fight the changing climate’s causes and consequences have received…
Bigotry for Profit and “Fun:” Traversing the Wasteland of U.S. Election News
By Anthony DiMaggio
The frighteningly high human and financial costs of war
By Rami G Khouri The ravages and costs of war can persist for generations after the fighting and bombing stop.
American Millennials and the World
By A. Trevor Thrall and Erik Goepner The 9/11 attacks have been the defining event of the American millennial generation. The article discusses how…
Filming Genocide
By William Guynn Film, with its tangible relationship to the world it “captures”, can offer us, in flashes of insight, an immediate and unexpected…
Why is Gentrification so Gay?
By Dana Collins What exactly does “gay” have to do with gentrification? Looking at a case study of gay urban community in a global…
America at War with Itself
By Henry A. Giroux As the United States has moved from a welfare to a warfare state, it has militarised every aspect of society.…
Why Greater Gender Equality in Male-Dominated Sectors is Good For Women and Industry – and How To Do It
By Tessa Wright This article explores the working lives of women in manual and professional construction and transport occupations, finding that lesbians and heterosexual…
Gender Confessions and Postmodern Auto Da-Fé
By Julian Vigo Transgender politics today function very similarly to auto da-fé where the subject must not only have something to confess, she is…
The Future of Film
By Holly Willis Cinema, the primary vehicle for storytelling in the 20th century, is in the midst of exciting transformation as the tools, practices,…
How Olympic Sexism Is Harming Young Girls
By Michael Kimmel 6 in 10 girls stop doing what they love because they feel badly about their looks. These stats can’t continue if…
WHY DO I LIVE HERE?: On Muslim youth growing up on the front lines of nationalist politics in Denmark
By Reva Jaffe Walter Denmark has some of the most restrictive immigration and refugee policies in Europe. Muslim youth are at the front lines…
Hate Crime Laws Are a Form of Discrimination
By James Jacobs In a hierarchy of victims, where do murdered police officers belong? The move to conceptualise attacks on police as hate crime…
The Rise of the Corporatocracy
By Graham Vanbergen Transnational corporations are wreaking havoc on financial, economic, social and ecological systems in a creeping colonisation of public life where just…
Usury in the 21st Century
By Richard Westra Neoliberal deregulation commencing in the closing decades of the 20th century put into play a global financial system which operates as…
How the Brexit Referendum was Trumped: Personality, Protest and Patriotism
By Glyn Atwal and Douglas Bryson In this article, the authors contend the electioneering style of what they label “Trumpism” was distinctly manifested and…
Will Africa Feed China? “Begging with a Golden Bowl” Food Security and Commercial Farms
By Deborah Brautigam In this excerpt from her book, ‘Will Africa Feed China?’, the author discusses China-Cameroon agricultural development and investment.
Selling Illusory Joy: Emotions, Big Data and the Coming Retail Renaissance
By Christopher Surdak and Ed King Today the world is awash in massive amounts of context-rich data. Whether it’s GPS position information, social media…
The Rise of Shenzhen and BYD – How a Chinese Corporate Pioneer is Leading Greener and More Sustainable Urban Transportation and Development
By Taylor Ogan and Xiangming Chen While the world is focusing on if the Chinese government can be a trusted and reliable leader in…
Why Have Politicians Abandoned Economic and Financial Policies to Non-Elected Bankers?
By Rodrigue Tremblay Since 1999, non-elected bankers have been in charge of economic policy in the US and other countries, with questionable results. Are…
Donald Trump is the Presidential Candidate the Republican Party Deserves
By Lawrence Ware Republicans have had no problem using bigotry, often in subtle ways, to win elections. White supremacy is a well-established part of…
The New Tyranny: A Preface to the 2016 Elections in the United States
By Timothy K. Kuhner Democracy in the United States has been replaced by a rival form of government premised upon the power of wealth.…
“Without Haste But Without Pause”: Cuba-US Relations in the Age of Obama
By John M. Kirk and Stephen Kimber This article analyses the significance of the March 2016 visit to Cuba by President Barack Obama, assesses…
Duterte’s Global Impact
From the Editors On 1st July 2016, Rodrigo Duterte will begin his term as the President of the Republic of the Philippines. Mr Duterte…
America’s Shale Revolution and the Dangerous Myth of Energy Independence
By Flynt Leverett and Hillary Mann Leverett Proponents of energy independence enshrine America’s so-called “shale revolution” as a geopolitical game changer, enabling the United…
The Rise of the Petroyuan and the Slow Erosion of Dollar Hegemony
By Flynt Leverett and Hillary Mann Leverett For seventy years, one of the critical foundations of American power has been the dollar’s standing as…
China Looks West: What Is at Stake in Beijing’s “New Silk Road” Project
Flynt Leverett, Hillary Mann Leverett and Wu Bingbing Not even two years into what will almost certainly be a ten-year tenure as China’s president,…
Cheap and Clean: Attitudes to Energy in a USA Concerned with Climate Change
By Stephen Ansolabehere and David Konisky In light of the recent agreement between the US and China to cut greenhouse gas emissions, US climate…
“Empowering Women Makes Economic Sense”
Interview with James Zhan Foreign investment holds enormous potential for women’s empowerment through the creation of formal jobs and business linkages – and this…
Decrypting The Aspiring Indian Low-Income Consumer
By Glyn Atwal, Douglas Bryson and Ambi Parameswaran In this article, Glyn Atwal, Douglas Bryson and Ambi Parameswaran highlight the common misconceptions held by…
Food and Fuel Excess: The Dark Side of America’s Exceptionalism
By Robert Paarlberg By a wide margin, the United States leads the rich countries of the OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development) both…
The Delusions of Counterinsurgency
By David Martin Jones and Michael L.R. Smith The theory and practice of counterinsurgency, ‘COIN’, preoccupied Western military thinking after 9/11. In the Political…
The Problems of Unfree Trade: Various Implications of the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement
By Binoy Kampmark How free is the Trans-Pacific Partnership? Covering a region spanning 40 percent of the world’s GDP and 12 signatory states, an…
Tokyo 2020 in the Face of Hardship
By Robert Hunziker The Tokyo 2020 Olympics reflects a sense of optimism to the world community and has become a centerpiece of the Abe…
International Law in a Multipolar World
By Charles Camp And Theresa Bowman From a bipolar world marked by the Cold War between the two major powers, the United States and…
The Responsibility to Participate: The Problem of Global Engagement in Responding to the Syrian Refugee Crisis
By Charles H. Camp and Theresa Bowman Despite the unanimous agreement of United Nations member states to commit as an international community to global…
How to Defeat Western Neo-Colonialism
By Andre Vltchek The West managed to build its wealth, including the social nets, on plunder, deception, slavery and countless holocausts on all continents…
Learning to Live in the World Instead of Ruling It
By John Grant So how should Americans live in this new world? That’s the crossroads we’re at, the question at hand. Some advocate a…
We Will Not Stop Talking about Racism
By Lawrence Ware and Rebecca Martinez Many white people want to stop talking about racism. Consciousness implies action, and that kind of talking about…
The Internet in China: How the Network is Shaping the PRC’s Economic and Social Landscape
By Eric Harwit Chinese e-commerce and communications companies are playing leading roles in the nation’s continued Internet development. These corporations are expanding their roles…
Recognition of Arbitral Awards in the US – US Courts Explore Two Sides of the Same Coin
By Theresa Bowman and Charles Camp Charles Camp and Theresa Bowman share their assessment of two important US District Court disagreements regarding the appropriate…
Internationalising Media Studies
By Daya Thussu For hundreds of years the West has dominated the world of Media Studies, but Daya Thussu is about to prove to…
Long Decisions Exploring New Ways to Decide What to Do
By Michael Mainelli and Robert Ghanea-Hercock Today, with a smart phone, any individual on the planet has access to the power of most recorded…