Spanish voters are dismayed with self-absorbed politicians who are determined to hold yet another national election which few voters want.
Apple et al.: European Commission as the Last Defender of Public Interest
Apple, Google, Facebook et al.’s prolonged tax cheating further hollows out the already shaky support for globalization.
Beyond Dilma: The New Era of Anti-Corruption Enforcement
The Brazilian President’s removal from office will send shockwaves across Latin America, and possibly beyond.
2016 G20 Summit: Who Needs to Do What?
The need for action is clear, but count on it being “papered over.” Reflections on the G20 Hangzhou Summit.
The U.S.-Syria Scandal: Supporting Sectarian War
Senior Obama administration officials were aware from 2012 that a war to overthrow Assad would inevitably become a sectarian bloodbath.
Globalization and the West: Coping With the Politics of Anger
What happens when the need for economic adjustment moves from the global South to the North.
Yemen as a Saudi Target
How Western powers are nice to rich Saudi Arabia and assist it in covering up its disastrous war tracks.
Is Erdogan a Leninist?
The devious art of categorizing all political enemies as “terrorists”
Turkey’s Totalitarian Democracy
Reflections on the emerging totalitarian form of Islamic democracy.























