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Les MacdonaldPearls and Irritations |
The upcoming BRICS summit in Kazan on October 22nd to 24th may well accelerate the beginning of the end of the dollar as the world currency. This...
The propensity of the West, and Israel for that matter has been to impose a forced forgetting on the rest of the world. Each event that occurs in the...
Over the past few decades, the Western economic system has shifted increasingly towards financialisation, prioritising the creation of paper wealth...
As the war in Ukraine heads into its third winter, Western leaders appear to be sinking further every day into a delusional belief in the success of...
Much of the angst being generated by Australia’s worst foreign policy decision since joining the American invasion of Vietnam may well be misplaced....
We may be beginning a return to the original Athenian democracy where strength of conviction and argumentation shaped policy rather than outdated...
One of the characteristic features of modern western democracies is, as John Ralston Saul has pointed out, that it has focused on the development of...
Aged care and disability services bureaucratic elites seem increasingly to work in ways that are divorced from morality and common sense and removed...