A New Global Order? How Coronavirus Will Change the World Forever

The post-coronavirus world will look fundamentally different from anything that we have seen or experienced, at least since the end of World War II.

Romana Rubeo
Ramzy Baroud
By Romana Rubeo
And Ramzy Baroud
Coronavirus globalization

The prophecies are here and it is a foregone conclusion: the post-coronavirus world will look fundamentally different from anything that we have seen or experienced, at least since the end of World War II. Even before the ‘curve flattened’ in many countries that have experienced high death tolls - let alone economic devastation - as a result of

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Trump Threats of WTO Pullout Spark Fear of “Law of the Jungle,” End to Neoliberal Globalization

The United States has employed the WTO as a means to establish its transnational corporations’ dominance in less-developed markets, using the Dispute Settlement Body of the WTO to win far more trade disputes than any other country in the body.

Elliott Gabriel
By Elliott Gabriel
idlib

GENEVA -- President Donald Trump’s threat to the World Trade Organization (WTO) that a failure to treat the U.S. “properly” will mean “we will be doing something” has sent shockwaves rippling through Western capitals who fear that the “America First” agenda is increasingly leading to bruising fights with the other powers who comprise the

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7 Brilliant Insights From Noam Chomsky on American Empire

Seven powerful quotes on the evils, atrocities and ironies of the American empire from Dr. Chomsky.

Laura Gottesdiener
By Laura Gottesdiener
Photo: Tom Ipri/Flickr

Noam Chomsky is an expert on many matters -- linguistics, how our economy functions and propaganda, among others. One area where his wisdom especially shines through is in articulating the structure and functioning of the American empire. Chomsky has been speaking and publishing on the topic since the '60s. Below are seven powerful quotes on the

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Trump’s Twenty-First-Century American Populism

Rajan Menon takes a clear-eyed look at the populism of the Trumpian moment, the growing inequality that is increasingly the heart and soul of this society, and what is(n’t) being done about it.

Rajan Menon
By Rajan Menon
President Donald Trump gives a thumbs-up after speaking to Navy and shipyard personnel aboard the nuclear aircraft carrier Gerald R. Ford at Newport News Shipbuilding in Newport News, Va. (AP/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Among the stranger features of the 2016 election campaign was the success of Donald Trump, a creature of globalization, as an America First savior of the white working class. A candidate who amassed billions of dollars by playing globalization for all it was worth -- he manufactured clothes and accessories bearing his name in low-wage economies and

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Greece: A (Basket) Case Study In Savage Globalization

As Greeks look inward, they see a country that produces nothing of value and is inferior to the rest of the world – despite evidence to the contrary. The country has been mentally colonized, with outside powers convincing the Greeks that they can do no better.

Dr. Michael Nevradakis
By Dr. Michael Nevradakis
A woman uses her fan to cool down outside the Bank of Greece headquarters in Athens, July 24, 2017. (AP/Thanassis Stavrakis)

ATHENS (Analysis)-- Oscar López Rivera, the Puerto Rican activist, and advocate for independence whose 70-year prison sentence was commuted earlier this year, resulting in his release after serving 35 years, once had this to say about patriotism and colonialism: “To love the homeland costs nothing, what would be costly is if we lose it… As Puerto

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The Globalized State And Its Discontents

In a world governed by financial and cultural interdependence among states, the present reflects the past more than the future we had been promised. But is a state-less world a viable option?

Jeffrey Cavanaugh
By Jeffrey Cavanaugh
An Occupy protester wears a Guy Fawkes mask while protesting.

Nearly a quarter century ago the end of the Cold War instituted what then-President George H. W. Bush called a “New World Order.” It was, perhaps, a poor choice of words that elicited more in the way of conspiracy-fueled fear of one-world government than a bright, new cosmopolitan future, but it was nonetheless an apt description of a new era in

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