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Europe of the human face… with a little help from Greece
Days after the last parliamentary elections, something is eventually moving in Greece. People are hesitant and restrained, do not want to get too excited....
Wealth: Having it all and wanting more
Global wealth is increasingly being concentrated in the hands of a small wealthy elite. These wealthy individuals have generated and sustained their vast riches...
Fair Trade – an alternative made to Aid and Free Trade?
“Trade not Aid”: this used to be the slogan of third-worldist movements in the mid-1960s, an epoch when intellectual figures in the Third World...
We are 99% too many on this planet – 1% is fat and furious
Escalating inequality is the work of a global elite that will resist every challenge to its vested interests. Even the extremely asocial CEOs and...
Eurasian Integration Could Open Market for Africans
Early January, Russia and four other ex-Soviet republics completed finally the creation of a new economic alliance intended to bolster their integration. The Eurasian...
2015 – End of the Petrodollar system?
Neoconservatives arrayed in their Washington offices are congratulating themselves on their success in using the Charlie Hebdo affair to reunite Europe with Washington’s foreign...
Eurasian Heart of Gold
What is the impact of Kumtor on Kyrgyzstan’s Gold Mining Sector? Nationalization talks have started again in Kyrgyzstan about the ownership...
Global Markets of Misery
Is our global humanitarian system in transition? If so, what are the key issues before the 2016 World Humanitarian Summit "Today's...
2015: A Year of INTENSE CONFLICTS – Why is it necessarily so?
Washington has shaped 2015 to be a year of conflict. The conflict could be intense. Washington is the cause of the...
NEW DEAL for the Balkans – China and BRICS
Capital rich and ready to spend, China might be outplaying many Western rivals, even maybe Russia, in the Balkans. Chinese investments boost the influence,...