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Jeffrey D. SachsPearls and Irritations |
Simply put, the majority of the world does not want or accept U.S. hegemony, and is prepared to face it down rather than submit to its dictates. ...
As a result of its belligerence and intransigence, Israel is now almost completely ostracised by the international community, and also faces grave...
Israel’s violent extremists now in control of its government believe that Israel has the Biblical license, indeed a religious mandate, to destroy...
The very strong evidence of the U.S. role in toppling the government of Imran Khan in Pakistan raises the likelihood that something similar may have...
A MUST-WATCH 29-minute interview in which Jeffrey Sachs tells it like it is and as few others dare to tell it. Andrew Napolitano from Judging...
The United Nations-based structures are fragile and in need of an urgent upgrade; we should consider this one at the U.N. Summit of the Future in...
For the sake of America’s security and world peace, the U.S. should immediately abandon the neocon quest for hegemony in favour of diplomacy and...
Ukraine can only be saved at the negotiating table, not on the battlefield. Sadly, this point is not understood by Ukrainian politicians such as Oleg...
The world’s geopolitical system is not delivering what we want or need. Sustainable development is our declared goal, meaning economic prosperity,...
For goodness’ sake, negotiate! For the fifth time since 2008, Russia has proposed to negotiate with the U.S. over security arrangements, this...
The world economy is experiencing a deep process of economic convergence, according to which regions that once lagged the West in industrialisation...
Each of the last five presidents, both Democrats and Republicans, have brought us closer to the brink. We desperately need leaders with a knack for...
Tucker Carlson interviews Jeffrey Sachs on the Untold History of the Cold War and the war in Ukraine.
The Democrats and the Republicans are outdoing each other to prove who can get us to World War III fastest. Joe Biden and the Congressional Democrats...
This week, the U.S. and U.K. have the chance to correct decades of their blatant geopolitical errors in the Israel-Palestine conflict by welcoming...
The Western press is filled with stories of foreboding about the Chinese economy. We are told regularly that China’s fast growth is over, that...
Now is the time for talks that will bring us closer to peace and away from a deadly and destructive war with no end in sight. There has been a...
This will stop when the United States stops providing the munitions to Israel. It will not stop by any self-control in Israel. There is none in this...
Peace can come through the immediate implementation of the two-state solution, making the admission of Palestine to the United Nations the starting...
There are three basic problems with the CIA: its objectives, methods, and unaccountability. Its operational objectives are whatever the CIA or the...
Biden and Schumer’s proposed $61 billion for the Ukraine war will make no difference on the battlefield except to prolong the war, the tens of...
A principal instrument of U.S. foreign policy is covert regime change, meaning a secret action by the U.S. government to bring down the government of...
Only an exceptional president could resist the endless war-profiteering of this mammoth war machine; alas, Biden doesn’t even try. When it comes...
Israel’s brutality in Gaza is becoming a true threat to Israel’s survival. When Congress returns in January, President Joe Biden will push the...
US foreign policy seems to be utterly irrational. The US gets into one disastrous war after another — Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Libya, Ukraine, and...
The nearly unanimous vote in the UN Security Council on Friday calling for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza is a moment of honour for the United Nations...