U.S. Headed Back to Dark Days of Liberal Interventionism – Tim Black, Spiked

Yoon Seok-yeol At The NATO Summit – Konstantin Asmolov

One June 29-30, 2022, a NATO summit was held in Madrid that was attended for the first time by the President of South Korea Yoon Seok-yeol. South Korea is not a member of the military alliance, but was invited as a partner country along with Japan, Australia, and New Zealand. For Yoon, this was his […]

Will The Hegemon Ever Accept A New Westphalian World Order? – Pepe Escobar

There will be no peaceful road towards to Westphalian world order. Fasten your seat belts – it’s gonna be a bumpy ride. A new book by scholar Glenn Diesen, The Ukraine War & The Eurasian World Order,  out in mid-February, asks the make-or-break question of the young 21st century: will the Hegemon accept a new […]

Contra Ben Bernanke, The Gold Standard Promotes Economic Stability – Frank Shostak

Currently the world is on a fiat money standard—a government-issued currency that is not backed by a commodity such as gold. The fiat standard is the primary cause behind the present economic instability, and is tempted to suggest that a gold standard would reduce instability. The majority of experts however, oppose this idea on the […]