Tensions between South Africa and the US have revealed deep and fundamental contradictions At the start of 2025, tensions between South Africa and the US sharply escalated. It all started when the media published documents related to the correspondence between Starlink and South Africa’s state regulator for telecommunications and broadcasting, ICASA. Elon Musk’s company described […]
In its period of rapid economic growth, Indian democracy was successful in redistributing gains from urban centered, globalization led growth to the rural agrarian economy. The redistribution of available economic and administrative resources among competing groups is a primary concern of democratic politics. The situation is very different in non-democratic polities. In the figure below, […]
Several months ago, I speculated why Twitter would suspend the Valdai Club (a milquetoast discussion group that largely centers around economics issues and has a large component of systemic liberals within in). Now we have an answer. RT: Twitter is an American company and it’s long been clear that it is used along with Facebook…
