By Orçun Göktürk – Beijing / China In an effort to stimulate recovery in the Chinese economy post-COVID-19, a series of policies have been implemented, such as strongly promoting the development of the private economy, increasing foreign investment, reducing loan interest rates, boosting demand for home purchases, revitalizing the capital market, and lowering the reserve ratio for deposits. In China, ...

By Stary Shakhtyor This travel diary is dedicated to North Korea, a country about which, due to its closed nature, there are many myths – including regarding its closed nature! In principle, anyone can apply to the North Korean embassy, get a visa, take a tour and go to see this country. However, the question is what they will show ...

By Şafak Erdem In the second and last part of the interview, Harley Schlanger addresses various important issues surrounding the upcoming elections in the US. Schlanger covers the following topics: * The different fractions within US capitalist classes * “Left out” working people and elite establishment * “The empire” and the meaning left and right today. From what you were ...

Libya is a country with tense domestic politics. The West and East of Libya are in a state of “Cold War” and different countries are interested in the outcome of this conflict. Some of them use Libya as a proxy player in the upcoming geopolitical confrontations. Other countries want to help Libya stabilize the internal situation and preserve the territorial ...

By Yunus Soner, Kazan / Russia The BRICS summit in Kazan, Russia, keeps on fueling debates globally on the future of the international system. Immediately after its conclusion, we spoke on the summit’s results with George Galloway. The interview was made in Kazan at the Expo Center, where the summit took place. George Galloway is a British politician, broadcaster and ...

By Şafak Erdem We conducted a comprehensive interview with Harley Schlanger, Vice President of the Schiller Institute in the US. In the first part of the interview Schlanger addresses the issues of polarized society, “the party of war”, the differences of the two parties in terms of economic policy, the power of monopolies in economy and politics and the average ...

By Sergio Rodríguez Gelfenstein I had not wanted to express an opinion on the decision of Brazil and Lula to veto Venezuela’s entry into BRICS. But I was struck by the statement from the Venezuelan Foreign Ministry that exonerates the president of Brazil, the foreign minister and even the presidential advisor Celso Amorim. Now President Maduro has released details of ...

By Yunus Soner The United States is deepening its relations to the Greek Cypriot Administration that claims to represent the entire island and governs the southern part. First, Washington lifted an old weapons embargo against it, followed by a defense cooperation agreement. As the latest step, President Joe Biden received in Washington Nikos Christodoulides, president of the southern republic. Its ...

By Michael Roberts * Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson and James A Robinson have been awarded the Nobel (really the Riksbank prize) in economics “for studies of how institutions are formed and affect prosperity.” Daron Acemoglu is a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Simon Johnson is a professor at the same university. And James Robinson is a professor at ...

Yunus Soner, Kazan, Russia The BRICS summit in Kazan, Russia has concluded. On its final day, after the presentation of the Kazan Declaration, we spoke to Pepe Escobar, Brazilian geopolitics expert specialized on Eurasian Affairs. Here’s how Escobar summarized the outcomes of the summit. Okay, your basic takeaway of this summit, what happened here? It’s very hard to give you ...